Repeated antenatal corticosteroid treatments: Do they reduce neonatal morbidity?

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 788-790

  Jazayeri, A ^a   Gavrila, D ^a   Sincich, T ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Prenatal diagnosis; Respiratory distress syndrome

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; STEROID;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CHRONOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LENGTH OF STAY; LOUISIANA; LUNG; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034817303     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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