Stroke in pregnant and postpartum women

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1235-1247

  Sidorov, Evgeny V ^a,b   Feng, Wuwei ^a,b   Caplan, Louis R ^a,b,c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c West Campus   (United States)

Author keywords

eclampsia; preeclampsia; pregnancy; reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome; sinus thrombosis; stroke

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMPHETAMINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; APIXABAN; ARGATROBAN; BROMOCRIPTINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CANNABIS; COCAINE; DABIGATRAN; HEPARIN; HIRUDIN; HYDRALAZINE; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; LABETALOL; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NICARDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; RIVAROXABAN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SUMATRIPTAN; TACROLIMUS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG SAFETY; ECLAMPSIA; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEADACHE; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STROKE; TERATOGENICITY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANIMALS; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80053113129     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.11.98     Document Type: Review

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