A low vaginal "pool" amniotic fluid glucose measurement is a predictive but not a sensitive marker for infection in women with preterm premature rupture of membranes

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 309-316

  Buhimschi, Catalin S ^a   Sfakianaki, Anna K ^a   Hamar, Benjamin G ^a   Pettker, Christian M ^a   Bahtiyar, Mert Ozan ^a   Funai, Edmund ^a   Norwitz, Errol R ^a   Copel, Joshua A ^a   Lockwood, Charles J ^a   Buhimschi, Irina A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Premature rupture of the membranes; Transabdominal amniocentesis; Vaginal amniotic fluid

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; AMNIONITIS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; MYCOPLASMA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UREAPLASMA; VAGINA;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINA;

EID: 31844456463     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.07.070     Document Type: Article

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