Treatment of Preterm Labor in Multiple Gestations

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 216-226

  Hill, Washington Clark ^a,b  

^a SARASOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; GLYCEROL NITRATE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE CAPROATE; INDOMETACIN; KETOROLAC; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; SULINDAC; TERBUTALINE; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BED REST; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERCLAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART RATE; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEARTBURN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LETHARGY; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; TOCOLYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAGINA PESSARY; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE;

EID: 1842536476     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200403000-00022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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