Visual disturbances in (pre)eclampsia

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 242-250

  Roos, Nina M ^a   Wiegman, Marjon J ^a   Jansonius, Nomdo M ^a   Zeeman, Gerda G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLURRED VISION; CENTRAL RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; DIPLOPIA; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; FETUS MORTALITY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GYNECOLOGIST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROLOGIST; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION; VISION DISORDERS; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84859892228     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e318250a457     Document Type: Review

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