An appraisal of treatment guidelines for antepartum community-acquired pneumonia
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Most pregnant women with pneumonia can be treated with erythromycin and about one-fourth can be treated as outpatients. This was the conclusion of a study of 133 pregnant women with community-acquired pneumonia.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 2000
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Acute pancreatitis in pregnancy
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Prompt diagnosis and hospitalization appear to improve the prognosis of women with acute pancreatitis in pregnancy. Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas. Of 43 pregnant women with pancreatitis admitted to a Texas hospital over a 10-year period, all responded well to antimicrobial therapy, intravenous hydration, and bowel rest. Of 39 of these women who gave birth in the hospital, 32 delivered full-term, healthy infants. Two of the babies were stillborn and one who was born without a functional brain died after one day. The most common cause of pancreatitis in pregnancy appears to be biliary tract disease which advances with gestational age.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 1995
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Asthma treatment in pregnancy: a randomized controlled study
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Treating pregnant women having severe asthma attacks with intravenous aminophylline does not appear to improve their outcome. In addition to treating with inhaled beta2-adrenergic receptor agonist, 65 pregnant women requiring hospital admission for an asthma attack were randomly assigned to intravenous aminophylline during their hospital stay and then randomly assigned to inhaled corticosteroids at hospital discharge. Women given aminophylline did not respond faster nor did they have shorter hospital stays. However, women assigned to inhaled corticosteroids had fewer readmissions for subsequent attacks.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 1996
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