Thalassaemia in pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-51

  Leung, Tak Yeung ^a   Lao, Terence T ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

anaemia; non invasive prenatal diagnosis; pre implantation genetic diagnosis; screening; thalassaemia

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN E; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; AMENORRHEA; ANEMIA; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MALFORMATION; BREAST FEEDING; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRACEPTION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS WASTAGE; GALLSTONE; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDRAMNIOS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; KIDNEY FAILURE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL WELFARE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PLACENTA PREVIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THALASSEMIA; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; THALASSEMIA MINOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; BETA-THALASSEMIA; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84856457054     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2011.10.009     Document Type: Review

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