Perioperative management for parturients with pulmonary hypertension: Experience with 30 consecutive cases

Frontiers of Medicine in China

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-310

  Ma, Lulu ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Huang, Yuguang ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

anesthesia; pregnancy; pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 84866124311     PISSN: 16737342     EISSN: 16737458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11684-012-0209-3     Document Type: Article

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