Serum bile acids in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: Not just a diagnostic test

Hepatology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1220-1222

  Bull, Laura N ^a   Vargas, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ACIDEMIA; AMERICAN INDIAN; AMNION FLUID; ANOXIA; APGAR SCORE; AUTOPSY; BILE ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRADYCARDIA; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EDITORIAL; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LABOR INDUCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MECONIUM; OBSTETRICIAN; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCRATCHING; SKIN DEFECT; STILLBIRTH; SUPPORT GROUP; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL CORD; VASOCONSTRICTION;

CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 84896493484     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26888     Document Type: Editorial

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