Pregnancy outcomes compared in women with mechanical heart valve replacements anticoagulated with warfarin and enoxaparin in pregnancy

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 591-594

  Vijayan, Valayatham ^a   Rachel, Thundyil ^a  

^a Sabah Women and Children's Hospital   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Heparin; Low Molecular Weight Heparin; Mechanical Heart Valve; Pregnancy; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; LABOR ONSET; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MECHANICAL HEART VALVE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SIDE EFFECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; HEART VALVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ENOXAPARIN; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; WARFARIN;

EID: 84883060481     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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