Antenatal corticosteroid treatment: what's happened since Drs Liggins and Howie?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 448-457

  Bonanno, Clarissa ^a   Wapner, Ronald J ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

antenatal corticosteroids; epithelial sodium channels receptors; multiple courses; prematurity

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; BETAMETHASONE ACETATE; BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE;

BREATHING; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPTION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FETUS LUNG; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MATURATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 62549109091     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.12.011     Document Type: Review

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