When Suzy Mack was told while just 17 weeks pregnant that her baby had no amniotic fluid because of a preterm premature rupture of membranes, doctors offered two options: inducing labor and ...
Antepartum diagnosis of subclinical chorioamnionitis would, therefore, help providers determine whether the benefits of prolonging pregnancy ... analysis of amniotic fluid obtained through ...
This inflammation most commonly results from bacterial infection of the amniotic fluid, the fetal membranes, the placenta, and/or the uterus. In clinical practice, the terms "chorio" and ...
in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in her heart and amniotic fluid leaking down her leg – was not how Ashley O’Neil expected her first pregnancy to go. At 21 weeks ...