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.
| Author: | Kathe Gallagher, MSW | Last Updated: January 19, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | Joy Melnikow, MD, MPH - Family Medicine Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine William Gilbert, MD - Perinatology | |
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