Multiple courses of antenatal steroids: Risks and benefits

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 491-497

  Walfisch, Asnat ^a   Hallak, Mordechai ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG REEXPOSURE; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LUNG WEIGHT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MODELS, ANIMAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 0034830158     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(01)01368-0     Document Type: Review

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