Is there significant improvement in neonatal outcome after treating pPROM mothers with amnio-infusion?

Biology of the Neonate

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 222-229

  De Carolis, Maria Pia ^a,b   Romagnoli, Costantino ^a   De Santis, Marco ^a   Piersigilli, Fiammetta ^a   Vento, Giovanni ^a   Caruso, Alessandro ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amnio infusion; Oligohydramnios; Premature rupture of membranes; Pulmonary hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOINFUSION; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREDICTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 8344272186     PISSN: 00063126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079657     Document Type: Article

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