Effect of single versus multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids on maternal and neonatal outcome

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1243-1249

  Abbasi, Soraya ^a,b   Hirsch, Daniel ^a,b   Davis, Jonathan ^a,b   Tolosa, Jorge ^a,b   Stouffer, Nicole ^a,b   Debbs, Robert ^a,b   Gerdes, Jeffrey S ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Betamethasone; Intrauterine growth; Prematurity; Respiratory distress syndrome

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; LUNG SURFACTANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034081356     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2000.104789     Document Type: Article

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