Antenatal glucocorticoids prior to cesarean delivery at term

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 507-508

  Aiken, Catherine E M ^a   Fowden, Abigail L ^a   Smith, Gordon C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; COGNITION; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LUNG FUNCTION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

BETAMETHASONE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LUNG; PREGNANCY; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 84902154476     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.9     Document Type: Article

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