Managing pregnancy with HIV, HELLP syndrome and low platelets

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-147

  Onyangunga, O A ^a   Moodley, J ^b  

^a Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

eclampsia; HELLP syndrome; HIV infection; pre eclampsia; thrombocytopaenia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDRALAZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NIFEDIPINE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

AWARENESS; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONVULSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DELIVERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ECLAMPSIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GESTATIONAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HELLP SYNDROME; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OBSTETRICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEIZURE; SEROLOGY; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN PUNCTURE;

BLOOD PLATELETS; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84856411004     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2011.10.012     Document Type: Review

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