background: spontaneous occurrences of multifetal pregnancies always have been a medical problem. the risks of perinatal morbidity and mortality and maternal morbidity increase with enhancement of the number of fetuses. in our prospective experimental study, the outcome of twin pregnancy after assisted reproductive technologies (art) with and without multifetal pregnancy reduction (mfpr) is com...

Premature rupture of foetal membranes (PROM) complicates 10 % of pregnancies and is the most important identifiable cause of pre-term delivery. The diagnosis of PROM is based on the detection of amniotic fluid in the vagina. This can be achieved by chemical, clinical or biochemical methods. An ideal test should be specific for amniotic fluid and should not be affected by gestational age or inte...

The definition of PROM is rupture of membranes before the onset of labor. Membrane rupture before labor and before 37 weeks of gestation is referred to as preterm PROM. Management is influenced by gestational age and the presence of complicating factors, such as clinical infection, abruptio placentae, labor, or nonreasurring fetal status. An accurate assessment of gestational age and knowledge ...

The definition of PROM is rupture of membranes before the onset of labor. Membrane rupture before labor and before 37 weeks of gestation is referred to as preterm PROM. Management is influenced by gestational age and the presence of complicating factors, such as clinical infection, abruptio placentae, labor, or nonreassuring fetal status. An accurate assessment of gestational age and knowledge ...

OBJECTIVE To asses the degree of erythrocyte aggregation in the peripheral blood of women with preterm premature rupture of the membranes (PPROM). STUDY DESIGN This was a prospective case control study. Twenty patients with preterm premature rupture of the membranes and matched controls were recruited at the Lis Maternity Hospital. A slide test and image analysis were used to quantitate the d...

Preterm birth is defined as birth before the completion of 37 weeks of gestation. The frequency of preterm birth in the United States increased from 10.7% in 1992 to 12.3% in 2003. 1 Preterm births can be categorized as those undertaken because of a specific indication or as spontaneous preterm births. Indicated preterm births occur when a health care provider delivers a baby because of medical...

objective: the aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of preterm birth (ptb) and premature rapture of membranes (prom) and their associations with maternal factors. material and methods: this cross sectional study was carried out at akbar-abadi hospital in tehran during january 2009-aprile 2010. four hundred sixty six primiparous women with gestational age more than 20 weeks and single...

PURPOSE to compare the expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in ovular membranes with premature rupture (MPR) and with opportune rupture; to verify the association between the expression of the TNF-alpha in ovular membranes and the degree of chorioamnionitis, correlating the expression of the TNF-alpha and the membranes' time of rupture. METHODS ovular membranes from 31 partur...

Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM) is defined as rupture of membranes prior to onset of labor. It can occur at any gestational week. PROM greater than 24 hours is referred as prolonged PROM and carries risk of ascending infection (1). PROM occurs in 8%-10% of all term pregnancies and in 2%-4% of all preterm singleton pregnancies (1,2). The most important maternal risk is intrauterine infecti...

Objectives: Evaluation of the premature ruptured membranes incidence in a neonatology service, identification of microbial agents involved in producing infections with intrapartum onset and analysis of clinical and evolutive parameters involved in these cases. Material and method: Anamnestic, clinical and paraclinical data research, on all newborns resulted from premature ruptured membranes lab...