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Nitroglycerin for treatment of retained placenta: a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre double blind trial in the UK
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Background
Retained placenta following vaginal delivery is a major cause of postpartum haemorrhage. Currently, the only effective treatments for a retained placenta are the surgical procedures of manual removal of placenta (MROP) and uterine curettage, which are not universally available, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of the trial was to determine whether sublingual nitroglycerin spray was clinically effective and cost-effective for medical treat...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003001
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS Medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 12
- Article number:
- e1003001
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-23
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1549-1676
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1549-1277
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English
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- 2019
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- Copyright © 2019 Denison et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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