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Controversy: antenatal steroids.
There is no controversy that women at risk of preterm delivery before 32 to 34 weeks' gestational age should be treated with antenatal steroids. Three recent meta-analyses by the Cochrane Collaboration on the benefits of antenatal steroids, the choice of steroid and dosing, and repeat doses of corticosteroids comprehensively summarize the available clinical information to about 2007. However, t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinics in Perinatology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0095-5108
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2011.06.013