Are vaginal fluid procalcitonin levels useful for the prediction of subclinial infection in patients with preterm premature rupture of membranes?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 464-470

  Torbé, Andrzej ^a,b   Czajka, Ryszard ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Perinatology ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Infection; Premature rupture of membranes; Procalcitonin; Vaginal fluid

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRETERM PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADULT; BODY FLUIDS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINA;

EID: 27744553924     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2005.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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