Success rates with low dose misoprostol before induction of labor for nulliparas with severe preeclampsia at various gestational ages

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 825-831

  Berkley, Eliza ^a   Meng, Chen ^a   Rayburn, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Induction of labor; Misoprostol; Severe preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABOR INDUCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NULLIPARA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CERVICAL RIPENING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCICS; PARITY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAL OF LABOR;

EID: 35349029390     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767050701578303     Document Type: Article

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