PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for October, 2000: Re: Indocin

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Re: Indocin

From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:22:46 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Kim wrote: >
>I have been on Indocin for 1 week and 2 days, 25 mg. every six hours. I
>have been VERY worried about this, last year I had trouble on Indocin
>with both the heart duct and low fluid after 8 or 9 days. I was checked
>on Monday and have another appt. next Monday, I have been worried that
>this is too long. Last year after I was taken off Indocin labor started
>a few days later and it was found that my fluid never replenished. On
>top of that my little girl needed the ductus surgery because after one
>week in NICU she wasnt responding to Indocin, she lived for five days
>after the surgery. Should I be asking for a sooner appt.?
>
>Kim
>
>--
>Kim
>

Kim, Yes, I would ask for a sooner appointment. The Indocin data is very clear and hasn't varied since the original paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine in '87 by Ken Moise. You CANNOT leave a pregnant patient on Indocin for longer than 72 hours without daily assessment of the fetal ductus and the amniotic fluid volume. I recently asked Ken what his response is when asked about cases that resulted in fetal damage because of patients being maintained on Indocin longer than 72 hours and not monitored appropriately. He stated that his current response is "just write the check". Nobody knows more about the effects of Indocin in pregnancy than this man... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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