Every 30 seconds a baby dies of preterm birth. What are you doing about it?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 416-417

  Berghella, Vincenzo ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INDOMETACIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AMNIONITIS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; FETUS MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MYCOPLASMA; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STEROID THERAPY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWIN PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 78149277264     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2010.05.042     Document Type: Editorial

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