Premature labour with or without preterm premature rupture of membranes: maternal, obstetric and neonatal features - Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia

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Premature labour with or without preterm premature rupture of membranes: maternal, obstetric and neonatal features

PURPOSE:

Evaluation of maternal, obstetrics e neonatal features in both spontaneous preterm births (PTB) with or without preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM).

METHODS:

Retrospective study of single fetus pregnancies with PTB between 2003 and 2012. Inclusion criteria: PTB associated with ou without PPROM. Exclusion criterias: PTB by medical indication due to fetal/maternal disease and all non accessible or incomplete clinical files. Different characteristics were compared between two groups of PTB: spontaneous PTB without PPROM (sPTB) versus PPROM. Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Levene, χ2, t Student and Mann-Withney tests were used for statistical analysis.

RESULTS:

From 2,393 PTB of single fetus, 1,432 files were analysed, from which 596 were sPTB and 836 PPROM. The socioeconomic conditions were similar in both groups. Multiparity (50.7versus 40.3%), personal history of previous PTB (20.8 versus 10.2%), cervical length (18.2 versus 27.2 mm), lower body index mass (23.4 versus 24.3 kg/m2) and higher infectious parameters (Protein C Reactive: 2.2 versus 1.2 mg/L; Leukocytes: 13.3 versus 12.4×109) were more frequent in PBTs (p<0,001). Neonatal outcomes, specially neurologic outcomes (4.7 versus 2.8%, p<0,001), were worst in PBTs.

CONCLUSION:

PTB with or without PPROM has a complex etiology. From all evaluated features in our study, only maternal thinness, multiparity with a previous PTB, the cervical length and worst systemic infections parameters were significant in sPTB. This group also showed worst neonatal outcomes, specially on neurological outcomes.

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