Management of preterm labor clinical practice guideline and recommendation by the WAPM-World Association of Perinatal Medicine and the PMF-Perinatal Medicine Foundation

 Themistoklis Dagklis¹ Ranjit Akolekar² Cecilia Villalain³ Ioannis Tsakiridis¹ Assaad Kesrouani⁴ Aydin Tekay⁵ Walter Plasencia⁶ Sven Wellmann⁷ Satoshi Kusuda⁸ Nelly Jekova⁹ Federico Prefumo¹⁰ Nicola Volpe¹¹ Petya Chaveeva¹² Karel Allegaert¹³ Asma Khalil¹⁴ Cihat Sen¹⁵

1. Third Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
2. Medway Fetal and Maternal Medicine Centre, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham, UK and Institute of Medical Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Chatham, UK
3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Complutense University of Madrid, Fetal Medicine Unit, Madrid, Spain
4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St Joseph University Hotel-Dieu de France University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bellevue Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
6. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Canarias, San Crist´obal de La Laguna, Spain
7. Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital Regensburg (KUNO), Hospital St. Hedwig of the Order of St. John, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
8. Department of Pediatrics, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
9. Department of Neonatology, University Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology “Maichin dom”, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
10. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
11. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma Fetal Medicine Unit, Parma, Italy
12. Department of Fetal Medicine, Shterev Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria
13. Department of Development and Regeneration, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Hospital Pharmacy, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
14. Fetal Medicine Unit, St George's Hospital, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom and Vascular Biology Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
15. Perinatal Medicine Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey and Department of Perinatal Medicine, Memorial BAH Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey