Betamethasone associated changes in umbilical artery flow velocity waveforms in multiple pregnancies with umbilical artery absent end diastolic flow

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 360-363

  Barkehall Thomas, Andrea ^a   Thompson, Melanie ^b   Baker, Lesleigh S ^a   Edwards, Andrew ^a   Wallace, Euan M ^b  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Betamethasone; Multiple pregnancies; Umbilical artery absent end diastolic flow

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CELESTONE CHRONODOSE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DELIVERY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TWIN PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL ARTERY ABSENT END DIASTOLIC FLOW; WAVEFORM;

BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TRIPLETS; TWINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0142155547     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0004-8666.2003.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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