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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/43169| Title: | Foetal hazards from maternal therapy in late pregnancy |
| Authors: | Camilleri, Arthur P. |
| Keywords: | Pregnancy -- Complications Fetus -- Effect of drugs on Teratogenicity testing Fetus -- Diseases |
| Issue Date: | 1965 |
| Publisher: | Malta Medical Students Association |
| Citation: | Camilleri, A. P. (1965). Foetal hazards from maternal therapy in late pregnancy. Chest-piece, 2(5), 15-19. |
| Abstract: | It has long been known that drugs given to a pregnant woman for therapeutic purposes may cross from the maternal to the foetal circulation. Very few do not. Page (1957) has studied the possible ways in which drugs and other substances can cross the so-called "placental barrier"; and the passage of drugs across the placenta is extensively reviewed by Moya and Thorndike (1962) and by Hagerman and Villee (1960). In fact the tissues of the placenta are very active metabolically and it is difficult to understand how this concept of a "barrier" between the maternal and foetal circulations was sustained - on this score the efficiency of the placenta is minimal (Villee, 1960). |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/43169 |
| Appears in Collections: | Chest-piece, volume 2, issue 5 Chest-piece, volume 2, issue 5 |
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