Consumption of medicines in high-risk pregnancy: evaluation of determinants related to the use of prescription drugs and self-medication

• Principais autores: Danielle Dayse Araújo (Autor), Marineide Marinho Leal (Autor), Eliane Jucielly Vasconcelos Santos (Autor), Leila Bastos Leal (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Universidade de São Paulo, 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
• Acesso em linha: Connect to this object online.

The use of drugs during pregnancy still represents a challenge for medicine, since the majority of drugs cross the placental barrier with a potential to cause several congenital problems to the fetus, and most of them have not been clinically tested in pregnant patients. At the same time, the medica...