Do women with pre-eclampsia, and their babies, benefit from magnesium sulphate? The Magpie Trial: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.
Background: Anticonvulsants are used for pre-eclampsia in the belief they prevent eclamptic convulsions, and so improve outcome. Evidence supported magnesium sulphate as the drug to evaluate.Methods: Eligible women (n=10141) had not given birth or were 24 h or less postpartum; blood pressure of 140/...
| Publicado en: | Lancet Vol. 359; no. 9321; pp. 1877 - 1891 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
| Formato: | clinical trial research randomized controlled trial Journal Article |
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Lancet
6/1/2002
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |