Twenty-four percent of patients with clinical chorioamnionitis in preterm gestations have no evidence of either culture-proven intraamniotic infection or intraamniotic inflammation

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 216, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 604.e1-604.e11

  Oh, Kyung Joon ^a,b   Kim, Sun Min ^a,c   Hong, Joon Seok ^a,b   Maymon, Eli ^d,e   Erez, Offer ^d,e   Panaitescu, Bogdan ^d,e   Gomez Lopez, Nardhy ^d,e,f   Romero, Roberto ^d,f,g,h   Yoon, Bo Hyun ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Boramae Hospital   (South Korea)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amniocentesis; matrix metalloproteinase 8 (MMP 8); microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity (MIAC); pregnancy; preterm delivery

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE; MMP8 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FUNISITIS; GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOPLASMA; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UREAPLASMA; AMNION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURITY; SOUTH KOREA;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COHORT STUDIES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 8; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UREAPLASMA;

EID: 85017477175     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2017.02.035     Document Type: Article

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