Fatal Brain Damage Associated with Cardiomyopathy of Pregnancy, with Notes on Caesarean Section in a Hyperbaric Chamber
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Fatal brain damage associated with cardiomyopathy of pregnancy, with notes on Caesarean section in a hyperbaric chamber.
Three weeks after admission to a maternity hospital for observation following minor antepartum haemorrhage, a primiparous patient aged 22 suffered a sudden left hemiplegia and became comatose. Congestive cardiac failure ensued and because of the subsequent severe hypoxaemia she was transferred to the hyperbaric oxygen unit at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, where it was found possible to improv...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.4.5626.285