Sickle Cell Trait: Is There an Increased VTE Risk in Pregnancy and the Postpartum?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Pintova, Sofya ^a   Cohen, Hillel W ^b   Billett, Henny H ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HEMOGLOBIN F; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILDBIRTH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEGRO; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PUERPERIUM; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; URBAN AREA; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREVALENCE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84878061717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064141     Document Type: Article

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