Successful pregnancy in a woman with liver cirrhosis complicated by recurrent variceal bleeding

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 490-491

  Chaudhuri, K ^a   Tan, E K ^a,b   Biswas, A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; APGAR SCORE; CASE REPORT; DRUG ABUSE; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MELENA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; STOMACH MUCOSA; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VEIN LIGATION;

ADULT; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROPRANOLOL;

EID: 84861821371     PISSN: 01443615     EISSN: 13646893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2012.683215     Document Type: Short Survey

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