Background: Preterm premature rupture of membranes is defined as before the onset labor with gestational age < 37 weeks. associated 10% perinatal mortality, particularly respiratory distress syndrome and neonatal infection. Objective: The study aims to assess outcome maternal fetal in preterm membranes. Materials Methods: This cross-sectional was performed on 136 pregnant women complicated b...

OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate gestational age, cervical length, amniotic fluid interleukin (IL)-6, and selected proteomic biomarkers as independent predictors of adverse outcome in preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). STUDY DESIGN This was a prospective cohort study of 65 consecutive women with PPROM (20.0-34.6 weeks). Gestational age, cervical length, amniotic fluid IL-6, and pr...

OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency and outcomes of preterm hospital admissions during pregnancy, with a focus on transfers to higher levels of care. DESIGN Population-based cohort study using linked population data. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Women who were admitted to hospital in weeks 20-36 of pregnancy (preterm) and gave birth to a liveborn singleton infant in New South Wales during 2001-2008. ...

The frequency of spontaneous premature rupture of membranes (PROM) was determined in the pregnancies of 1,848 white mothers and their singleton infants, born at the University of Kansas Medical Center between April 1975 and April 1978. The frequency of PROM increased significantly from a low of 34/707 (4.8 percent) among low-risk mothers, to 40/444 (9.0 percent) among mothers smoking one to 60 ...

BACKGROUND Histologic chorio-deciduitis and chorio-deciduo-amnionitis (amnionitis) in extra-placental membranes are known to represent the early and advanced stages of ascending intra-uterine infection. However, there are no data in humans about the time required for chorio-deciduitis to develop and for chorio-deciduitis without amnionitis to progress to chorio-deciduitis with amnionitis, and t...