The safety of asthma medications during pregnancy

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-26

  Källén, Bengt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUND   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antiasthmatic drugs; Asthma; Congenital malformations; Delivery; Infant diagnoses; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIMIGRAINE AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MONTELUKAST; OMALIZUMAB; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; TERBUTALINE; THYROID HORMONE; XANTHINE DERIVATIVE;

ASTHMA; BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLEFT LIP FACE PALATE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOSPADIAS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SMOKING; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SUBFERTILITY; TERATOGENICITY;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 33846404131     PISSN: 14740338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14740338.6.1.15     Document Type: Review

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