Clarithromycin in Early Pregnancy and the Risk of Miscarriage and Malformation: A Register Based Nationwide Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Andersen, Jon Trærup ^a,b   Petersen, Morten ^a,b   Jimenez Solem, Espen ^a,b   Broedbaek, Kasper ^a,b   Andersen, Nadia Lyhne ^c   Torp Pedersen, Christian ^d,e   Keiding, Niels ^e   Poulsen, Henrik Enghusen ^a,b,e  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Centre Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^d GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN V; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLARITHROMYCIN; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84871731073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053327     Document Type: Article

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