Pharmacokinetics of betamethasone in twin and singleton pregnancy

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-45

  Ballabh, Praveen ^a,b   Lo, E S ^a,b   Kumari, J ^a,b   Cooper, T B ^a,b   Zervoudakis, I ^a,b   Auld, P A M ^a,b   Krauss, A N ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWIN PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TWINS;

EID: 0036159435     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mcp.2002.120250     Document Type: Article

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