The effect of antenatal steroids on fetal lung maturation between the 34th and 36th week of pregnancy

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-99

  Balci, Osman ^a   Ozdemir, Suna ^a   Mahmoud, Alaa S ^a   Acar, Ali ^a   Colakoglu, Mehmet C ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Betamethasone; Fetal lung maturation; Respiratory distress syndrome

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; STEROID;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; DELIVERY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESUSCITATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BETAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949469582     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000295898     Document Type: Article

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