Evaluation of amniotic fluid cytokines in preterm labor and intact membranes

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 241-247

  Figueroa, Reinaldo ^a,b   Garry, David ^a   Elimian, Andrew ^a   Patel, Kirit ^a   Sehgal, Pravin B ^a   Tejani, Nergesh ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Infection; Interleukin 1 ; Interleukin 1 ; Interleukin 6; Interleukin 8; Preterm labor; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA BLEEDING;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANDIDA; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTERLEUKINS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 28844456102     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506120500223241     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Sutton PD. Births: preliminary data for 2002. Nat Vital Stat Rep; Vol 51. No 11. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics; 2003.
2. Hameed C, Tejani N, Verma UL, Archbald F. Silent chorioamnionitis as a cause of preterm labor refractory to tocolytic therapy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1984;149:726-730.
3. Guzick D, Winn K. The association of chorioamnionitis with preterm delivery. Obstet Gynecol 1985;65:11-16.
4. Bobbin JR, Hayslip CC, Damato JD. Amniotic fluid infection as determined by transabdominal amniocentesis in patients with intact membranes in premature labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1981;140:947-952.
5. Romero R, Emamian M, Quintero R, Wan M, Hobbins JC, Mazor M, Edberg S. The value and limitations of the Gram stain examination in the diagnosis of intraamniotic infection. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1988;159:114-119.
6. Romero R, Jimenez C, Lohda AK, Nores J, Hanaoka S, Avila C, Callahan R, Mazor M, Hobbins JC, Diamond MP. Amniotic fluid glucose concentration: a rapid and simple method for detection of intraamniotic infection in preterm labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1990;163:968-974.
7. Kirshon B, Rosenfeld B, Mari G, Belfort M. Amniotic fluid glucose and intraamniotic infection. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1991;164:818-820.
8. Garry D, Figueroa R, Aguero-Rosenfeld M, Martinez E, Visintainer P, Tejani N. A comparison of rapid amniotic fluid markers in the prediction of microbial invasion of the uterine cavity and preterm delivery. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1996;175:1336-1341.
9. Bobbitt JR, Ledger WJ. Amniotic fluid analysis: its role in maternal and neonatal infection. Obstet Gynecol 1978;51: 56-62.
10. Romero R, Avila C, Santhanam U, Sehgal PB. Amniotic fluid interleukin 6 in preterm labor: association with infection. J Clin Invest 1990;85:1392-1400.
11. Santhanam U, Avila C, Romero R, Viguet H, Ida N, Sakurai S, Sehgal PB. Cytokines in normal and abnormal parturition: elevated amniotic fluid levels in women with premature rupture of membranes associated with intrauterine infection. Cytokine 1991:3:1-9.
12. Hillier SL, Witkin SS, Krohn MA, Watts DH, Kiviat NB, Eschenbach DA. The relationship of amniotic fluid cytokines and preterm delivery, amniotic fluid infection, histologic chorioamnionitis, and chorioamnion infection. Obstet Gynecol 1993;81:914-918.
13. Romero R, Yoon BH, Mazor M, Gomez R, Gonzalez R, Diamond MP, Baumann P, Araneda H, Kenney JS, Cotton DB, et al. A comparative study of the diagnostic performance of amniotic fluid glucose, white blood cell count, interleukin-6, and Gram stain in the detection of microbial invasion in patients with preterm premature rupture of membranes. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1993;169:839-851.
14. Romero R, Yoon BH, Mazor M, Gomez R, Diamond MP, Kenney JS, Ramirez M, Fidel PL, Sorokin Y, Cotton D, et al. The diagnostic and prognostic value of amniotic fluid white blood cell count, glucose, interleukin-6, and Gram stain in patients with preterm labor and intact membranes. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1993;169:805-816.
15. Coultrip TT, Lien JM, Gomez R, Kapernick P, Khoury A, Grossman JH. The value of amniotic fluid interleukin-6 determination in patients with preterm labor and intact membranes in the detection of microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1994;171:901-911.
16. Romero R, Brody DT, Oyarzun E, Mazor M, Wu YK, Hobbins JC, Durum SK. Infection and labor III. Interleukin-1: a signal for the onset of parturition. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1989;160:1117-1123.
17. Romero R, Manogue KR, Mitchell MD, Wu YK, Oyarzun E, Hobbins JC, Cerami A. Infection and labor. IV. Cachectin-tumor necrosis factor in the amniotic fluid of women with intraamniotic infection and preterm labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1989;161:336-341.
18. Romero R, Ceska M, Avila C, Mazor M, Behnke E, Lindley I. Neutrophil attractant/activating peptide-1/interleukin-8 in term and preterm parturition. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1991;165:813-820.
19. Romero R, Mazor M, Sepulveda W, Avila C, Copeland D, Williams J. Tumor necrosis factor in preterm and term labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1992;166:1576-1587.
20. Saito S, Kasahara T, Kato Y, Ishihara Y, Ichijo M. Elevation of amniotic fluid interleukin 6 (IL-6), IL-8 and granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) in term and preterm parturition. Cytokine 1993;5:81-88.
21. Gravett MG, Witkin SS, Haluska GJ, Edwards JL, Cook MJ, Novy MJ. An experimental model for intraamniotic infection and preterm labor in rhesus monkeys. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1994;171:1660-1667.
22. Kenney JS, Hughes BW, Masada MD, Allison AC. Influence of adjuvants on the quantity, affinity, isotype and epitope specificity of murine antibodies. J Immunol Methods 1989;121:157-166.
23. Kenney JS, Baker C, Welch MR, Altman LC. Synthesis of interleukin 1-α, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8 by cultured human nasal epithelial cells. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1994;93:1060-1067.
24. Kenney JS, Masada MP, Eugui EM, Delustro BM, Mulkins MA, Allison AC. Monoclonal antibodies to human recombinant interleukin-1 (IL-1)β: quantitation of IL-1β and inhibition of biological activity. J Immunol 1987;138:4236-4242.
25. May LT, Patel K, Garcia D, Ndubuisi MI, Ferrone S, Mittelman A, Mackiewicz A, Sehgal PB. Sustained high levels of circulating chaperoned interleukin-6 following active specific cancer immunotherapy. Blood 1994;84:1887-1895.
26. Foulon W, Van Liedekerke D, Demanet C, Decatte L, Dewaele M, Naessens A. Markers of infection and their relationship to preterm delivery. Am J Perinatol 1995;12:208-211.
27. Allbert JR, Naef RW, Perry KG, Magann EF, Whitworth NS, Morrison JC. Amniotic fluid interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 levels predict the success of tocolysis in patients with preterm labor. J Soc Gynecol Invest 1994;1:264-268.
28. Tsuda A, Ikegami T, Hirano H, Sanada H, Ogawa M, Sasaki M, Tanaka T. The relationship between amniotic fluid interleukin-6 concentration and histologic evidence of chorioamnionitis. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scan 1998;77:515-520.
29. Negishi H, Yamada H, Mikuni M, Kishida T, Okuyama K, Sagawa T, Makinoda S, Fujimoto S. Correlation between cytokine levels of amniotic fluid and histological chorioamnionitis in preterm delivery. J Perinatal Med 1996;24:633-639.
30. Potter NT, Kosuda L, Bigazzi PE, Fleming AD, Vintzileos AM, Homon C, Salafia CM. Relationships among cytokines (IL-1, TNF, and IL-8) and histologic markers of acute ascending intrauterine infection. J Matern-Fetal Med 1992;1:142-147.
31. Yoon BH, Romero R, Kim CJ, Jun JK, Gomez R, Choi J-H, Syn HC. Amniotic fluid interleukin-6: a sensitive test for antenatal diagnosis of acute inflammatory lesions of preterm placenta and prediction of perinatal morbidity. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1995;172:960-970.
32. Hitti J, Tarczy-Hornoch P, Murphy J, Hillier SL, Aura J, Eschenbach DA. Amniotic fluid infection, cytokines, and adverse outcome among infants at 34 weeks' gestation or less. Obstet Gynecol 2001;98:1080-1088.
33. Yoon BH, Romero R, Moon JB, Shim SS, Kim M, Kim S, Jim JK. Clinical significance of intra-amniotic inflammation in patients with preterm labor and intact membranes. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2001;185:1130-1136.
34. Martinez E, Figueroa R, Garry D, Visintainer P, Patel K, Verma U, Sehgal PB, Tejani N. Elevated amniotic fluid interleukin-6 as a predictor of neonatal periventricular leukomalacia and intraventricular hemorrhage. J Matern Fetal Invest 1998;8:101-107.
35. Yoon BH, Jun JK, Romero R, Park KH, Gomez R, Choi JH, Kim I-O. Amniotic fluid inflammatory cytokines (interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, and tumor necrosis factor-α), neonatal brain white matter lesions, and cerebral palsy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1997;177:19-26.
36. Yoon BH, Romero R, Kim CJ, Koo JN, Choe G, Syn HC, Chi JG. High expression of tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 in periventricular leukomalacia. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1997;177:406-411.