A study of the potential teratogenic effect of large doses of promethazine used for a suicide attempt by 32 pregnant women

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-96

  Petik, D ^a   Acs N ^b   Banhidy F ^a   Czeizel, Ae ^a  

^a FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMUNITY CONTROL OF HEREDITARY DISEASES   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

behavioral development; birth weight; cognitive status; congenital abnormalities; gestation age; pregnancy age; promethazine; suicide attempt during pregnancy

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PROMETHAZINE; CARBROMAL; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERIAN; VALERIANA COMPOSITA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; BEHAVIOR; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG OVERDOSE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUNGARY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SELF POISONING; SIBLING; TERATOGENESIS; TIME PERCEPTION; TOXICOLOGY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROMETHAZINE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849135916     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233708089003     Document Type: Article

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