Intravitreal bevacizumab injection in unrecognised early pregnancy

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 492-494

  Sullivan, L ^a   Kelly, S P ^b   Glenn, A ^c   Williams, C P R ^d   McKibbin, M ^a  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOLTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bevacizumab; first trimester; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIORETINOPATHY; COMPLICATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NEWBORN; ORGANOGENESIS; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RETINAL DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898406282     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2013.311     Document Type: Article

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