Title : Oral misoprostol for induction of labour.

Pub. Date : 2001

PMID : 11405987






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1 MAIN RESULTS: One trial with 80 randomised women with prelabour rupture of membranes at term showed that, compared with placebo, oral misoprostol reduces the need for oxytocin infusion from 51 percent to 13 percent (relative risk 0.25, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.1 to 0.6) and shortens delivery time by 8.7 hours (95% CI 6.0 to 11.3). Misoprostol oxytocin/neurophysin I prepropeptide Homo sapiens