Rare but real -the effects of sodium valproate in pregnancy

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Reardon, W ^a  

^a OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CLONAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EDITORIAL; EMBRYOPATHY; EPILEPSY; FETAL VALPROIC ACID SYNDROME; FETUS MALFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; LIMB DEFORMITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENINGOCELE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MONOTHERAPY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POLYDACTYLY; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SPINA BIFIDA; TRACHEOMALACIA; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANTICONVULSANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84855170242     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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