Maternal health and preterm labor
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Maternal health and preterm labor
Your doctor or nurse-midwife may decide not to delay preterm labor with tocolytic medication if you have:
- Very high blood pressure.
- Severe preeclampsia.
- HELLP syndrome, which is a life-threatening liver disorder thought to be a type of severe preeclampsia.
- Heart or lung disease.
- An infection (especially in the uterus) that is not responding to treatment with antibiotic medication.
- Severe bleeding from the vagina.
Credits
| Author | Kathe Gallagher, MSW |
| Editor | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS |
| Associate Editor | Pat Truman, MATC |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Joy Melnikow, MD, MPH - Family Medicine |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | William Gilbert, MD - Perinatology |
| Last Updated | January 19, 2007 |
| Last updated: | January 19, 2007 |
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| Author: | Kathe Gallagher, MSW |
| Reviewed By: | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine, William Gilbert, MD - Perinatology |
| Editors: | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS, Pat Truman, MATC |
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