Chorioamnionitis and neonatal outcome in preterm infants: A clinical overview

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1525-1529

  Pugni, Lorenza ^a   Pietrasanta, Carlo ^a   Acaia, Barbara ^a   Merlo, Daniela ^a   Ronchi, Andrea ^a   Ossola, Manuela Wally ^a   Bosari, Silvano ^a   Mosca, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain injury; bronchopulmonary dysplasia; death; funisitis; intrauterine inflammation; prematurity; respiratory distress syndrome; sepsis

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FUNISITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEONATAL OUTCOME; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEPSIS;

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEPSIS;

EID: 84958225681     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2015.1053862     Document Type: Review

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