Accelerated arterial and venous clots in a young pregnant woman: A saga of thrombotic storm

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Aryal, Madan Raj ^a   Badal, Madan ^a   Bhandari, Naresh ^b   Bhatt, Vijaya Raj ^c  

^a Reading Health System   (United States)

^b ST AGNES HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGATROBAN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; GLUCOSE; HEPARIN; HYDRALAZINE; INSULIN GLARGINE; KETONE; PIG INSULIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLONUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NAUSEA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEDATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; THROMBOTIC STORM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84879479325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-009776     Document Type: Article

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