Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Preeclamptic Pregnancies

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Hammer, Erica Shields ^a   Cipolla, Marilyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Blood brain barrier; Cerebral blood flow; Preeclampsia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MEMORY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASCULAR RESISTANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER LESION; ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STROKE; VASCULARIZATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84934279125     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-015-0575-8     Document Type: Review

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