Diagnosis of Subclinical Amniotic Fluid Infection Prior to Rescue Cerclage Using Gram Stain and Glucose Tests: An Individual Patient Meta-Analysis

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 116-122

  Lisonkova, Sarka ^a   Sabr, Yasser ^a,b,c   Joseph, K S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervical insufficiency; Glucose concentration test; Gram stain test; Microbial invasion of amniotic cavity

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID INFECTION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; CHEMISTRY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; GLUCOSE CONCENTRATION TEST; GRAM STAIN TEST; INFECTION; MICROBIAL INVASION OF AMNIOTIC CAVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE;

CRYSTAL VIOLET; GLUCOSE; GRAM'S STAIN; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE;

CERVICAL INSUFFICIENCY; GLUCOSE CONCENTRATION TEST; GRAM STAIN TEST; MICROBIAL INVASION OF AMNIOTIC CAVITY;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CERCLAGE, CERVICAL; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; GENTIAN VIOLET; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INFECTION; PHENAZINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899157542     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(15)30656-3     Document Type: Article

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