The effect of tocolytic use in the management of symptomatic placenta previa
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Administering tocolytics to pregnant women with placenta previa may significantly prolong pregnancies and result in increased birth weights. Tocolytics are a drugs that prevent premature labor contractions. Placenta previa is a complication of pregnancy where the placenta partially or wholly covers the cervical opening and is a risk factor for premature birth. Researchers studied 112 preterm pregnancies with known placenta previa and an episode of vaginal bleeding, and found that women who received tocolytics had significantly longer pregnancies and higher birth weight babies than did women who did not receive tocolytics. Long-term maintenance tocolysis may be more effective than short-term tocolysis in delaying delivery of pregnancies complicated with placenta previa. No major complications were seen in either mothers or infants, and no infants died.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 1995
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Effect of dual tocolysis on the incidence of severe intraventricular hemorrhage among extremely low-birth-weight infants
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Using indomethacin in combination with magnesium sulfate to suppress premature labor may increase the incidence of severe brain hemorrhage in very-low-birth-weight premature newborns. Indomethacin is suspected of causing several serious and life-threatening complications in premature newborns. Fifty-six newborns weighing 500 to 800 grams at birth had mothers who received either magnesium sulfate alone or in combination with indomethacin. Half the infants whose mothers had received combination therapy had severe brain hemorrhages versus one-quarter of infants receiving only magnesium sulfate.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 1996
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Calciuria in symptom-free primigravid women remote from term: is the response to an oral calcium challenge predictable?
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An abnormality in calcium metabolism may not cause preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a complication of pregnancy. Women who develop preeclampsia often excrete little calcium in their urine. A study of 69 women found that all the women excreted excess calcium in their urine after drinking a liquid calcium supplement, even those with little calcium in their urine.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 1999
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