Double-blind evaluation of ritodrine sustained release for oral maintenance of tocolysis after active preterm labour
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Double-blind evaluation of ritodrine sustained release for oral maintenance of tocolysis after active preterm labour.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of ritodrine sustained release capsules for maintaining uterine quiescence after successful treatment of active preterm labour. DESIGN Multicentre placebo-controlled trial. SETTING Five teaching hospitals in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Women (n = 95) at less than 35 weeks of gestation in whom active preterm labour had been stopped with intravenous ritodr...
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عنوان ژورنال: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1470-0328,1471-0528
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1996.tb09841.x