Pulmonary hypertension imitating HELLP syndrome
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HELLP Syndrome
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ed from the database of PubMed (1979 – December 2012) using the search 67 terms including “acute fatty liver of pregnancy”, “HELLP syndrome”, and “liver 68 AFLP and HELLP syndrome 5 dysfunction in pregnancy”. English literatures cited in these reports were also 69
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عنوان ژورنال: Obstetric Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1753-495X,1753-4968
DOI: 10.1177/1753495x13487330