Diagnosis of acute neurological emergencies in pregnant and post-partum women

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-185

  Edlow, Jonathan A ^a   Caplan, Louis R ^a   O'Brien, Karen ^a   Tibbles, Carrie D ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOM; ALGORITHM; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HELLP SYNDROME; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOM; TENSION HEADACHE; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872371692     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(12)70306-X     Document Type: Review

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