Pregnancy in Diabetics - Drug therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perinatal outcomes in pregnancies managed with antenatal insulin glargine.

13 Apr 2009 We compared perinatal outcomes in pregnancies in which insulin glargine was used in the management of patients with pregnancies in which standard insulin therapy was used at a single institution. A retrospective analysis of 114 pregnant patients ... Read more...

Watchful waiting: a management protocol for maternal glycaemia in the peripartum period.

30 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: It is accepted that tight glycaemic control is necessary during labour in women with pregestational or gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Although policies vary, routine use of intravenous glucose and insulin remains a standard ... Read more...

Use of hypoglycemic drugs during lactation.

30 Mar 2009 QUESTION: My patient was taking glipizide (an oral sulfonylurea) for type 2 diabetes. Now she is pregnant and taking insulin instead. She is very anxious to return to her previous treatment immediately after delivery because of the pain and hurdles ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pregnancy in Diabetics - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perinatal outcomes in pregnancies managed with antenatal insulin glargine. 13 Apr 2009
• Watchful waiting: a management protocol for maternal glycaemia in the peripartum period. 30 Mar 2009
• Use of hypoglycemic drugs during lactation. 30 Mar 2009
• A retrospective review of glargine use in pregnancy. 30 Mar 2009
• Offspring of diabetic pregnancy: short-term outcomes. 30 Mar 2009
• Insulin glargine compared with Neutral Protamine Hagedorn insulin in the treatment of pregnant diabetics. 27 Feb 2009
• Insulin Glargine: a review 8 years after its introduction. 27 Feb 2009
• [No thyroxin dose seemed sufficient--why?] 30 Dec 2008
• Insulin analogues: an example of applied medical science. 30 Dec 2008
• New modalities in the treatment of pregnancies complicated by diabetes: drugs and devices. 16 Dec 2008
• Successful pregnancy outcome in a patient with moyamoya disease. 29 Nov 2008
• Pregnancy and clinical research. 30 Oct 2008
• Insulin glargine versus neutral protamine Hagedorn insulin for treatment of diabetes in pregnancy. 29 Oct 2008
• Possible fetal outcome of insulin aspart. 30 Aug 2008
• Perinatal outcomes associated with the use of glargine during pregnancy. 30 Jul 2008
• Use of glargine in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a case-control study. 30 Jul 2008
• Technology useful in managing diabetes during pregnancy. 30 Jul 2008
• Use of real time continuous glucose monitoring and intravenous insulin in type 1 diabetic mothers to prevent respiratory distress and hypoglycaemia in infants. 29 Jun 2008
• A comparison of lispro and regular insulin for the management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in pregnancy. 29 Apr 2008
• [Intensive insulin therapy] 30 Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Pregnancy in Diabetics'

Definition: The state of PREGNANCY in women with DIABETES MELLITUS. This does not include either symptomatic diabetes or GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE induced by pregnancy (DIABETES, GESTATIONAL) which resolves at the end of pregnancy.

Descriptor UI: D011254

Alternative terms: Pregnancy in Diabetics; Pregnancy in Diabetic; Pregnancy in Diabetes; Pregnancy in Diabete;

Related Mesh Headings: Diabetes, Gestational;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C13.703.726;

History Note: 2001(1965)

Technical Notes: DIABETES MELLITUS, not DIABETES INSIPIDUS; coordinate IM with specific type of diabetes mellitus (IM) if pertinent; DF: PREGN IN DIABETES