chorioamnionitis/fever

OBJECTIVE Maternal fever is associated with chorioamnionitis and has been linked to labour epidural analgesia (LEA). The purpose of this study was to determine possible associations between LEA and chorioamnionitis, maternal fever, operative delivery rate, and neonatal outcome. METHODS Data from

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to determine whether epidural analgesia and histologic chorioamnionitis were independent predictors of intrapartum fever. METHODS This secondary analysis, retrospective cohort study included term parturients with placental examination during 2005. Logistic regression used

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine significant predictors for the development of clinical chorioamnionitis and postpartum fever in patients with prelabor rupture of membranes at term. METHODS Logistic regression analysis with odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals was used to determine the

Objective: To determine the association between clinical and histological diagnoses of chorioamnionitis.Methods: A retrospective 9-year review of hospital records for all perinatal deaths (N = 804) occurring at a Western New York regional perinatal center between 1988 and 1996 was conducted.

OBJECTIVE To assess the usefulness of amniotic fluid (AF) granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) levels as a rapid marker for diagnosing chorioamnionitis. METHODS AF levels were obtained from term and preterm patients with and without chorioamnionitis (CAM). Patients with urinary tract,

Chorioamnionitis is usually caused by migration of cervicovaginal flora through the cervical canal in women with ruptured membranes. Common causative pathogens are genital mycoplasmas, anaerobes, enteric gram-negative bacilli, and group B streptococcus. There have been only seven previous reports of

BACKGROUND An abscess in the adrenal gland is a rare finding described only a few times in the literature. We present a case report of chorioamnionitis complicated by a puerperal adrenal abscess diagnosed and drained percutaneously using ultrasound and computed tomography. METHODS A 22-year-old

The clinicopathologic features of 17 cases of an unusual variant of chorioamnionitis distinguished by a pure or predominantly chronic inflammatory infiltrate in the fetal membranes rather than the usual acute inflammatory reaction are reported. In six cases, there was an equal (one case) or minor

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether chorioamnionitis is associated with decreased Bayley II scores at age 2 years. METHODS We conducted an observational cohort study of women and their offspring enrolled in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development's Maternal-Fetal

OBJECTIVE To compare aztreonam in a standard dose with two gentamicin doses in the early treatment of experimental intra-amniotic infection in rabbits induced by intracervical inoculation with Escherichia coli. METHODS Timed pregnant rabbits on day 21 (70% of gestation) were inoculated

Objective To assess the value of incorporating amniotic fluid (AF) analysis in the management of patients with clinical chorioamnionitis. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study of all women carrying a singleton fetus and managed at our center between 2000 and 2009. We included only those

To test the hypothesis that characteristics of perinatal infection are associated with long-term cognitive limitations among preterm infants, we analyzed data from 294 infants (142 females, 152 males) < or = 1500 g birthweight and <37 completed weeks of gestation who were examined at age 9 years. We

OBJECTIVE To assess the usefulness of two definitions of acute clinical chorioamnionitis (ACCA) in predicting risk of neonatal infectious outcomes (NIO) and mortality, the first definition requiring maternal fever alone (Fever), and the second requiring ≥ 1 Gibbs criterion besides fever (Fever +

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to ascertain the likelihood of isolated maternal fever and suspected intrauterine inflammation or infection or both (Triple I) among cases of histologic chorioamnionitis with funisitis (HCF) at term. METHODS In this case-control study, placental pathology