Management of Late Preterm and Early-Term Pregnancies Complicated by Mild Gestational Hypertension/Pre-Eclampsia

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 292-296

  Sibai, Baha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestational hypertension; Late preterm birth; Pre eclampsia

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; COMPLICATION; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY TERM PREGNANCY; EXPECTANT MONITORING; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; LATER PRETERM PREGNANCY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL COMPLICATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEONATAL COMPLICATION; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC CARE; OPTIMAL DELIVERY TIMING; PATIENT MONITORING; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 80053448040     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2011.05.010     Document Type: Review

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