Birth of children with severe β-thalassemia at a tertiary obstetric hospital: What are the reasons behind it?

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1023-1026

  Yang, Yu ^a   Li, Dong Zhi ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BIRTH; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORDOCENTESIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATHER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PARENT COUNSELING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; REPRODUCTION; SCREENING TEST; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPOUSE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84886585538     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4189     Document Type: Article

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