Items for "fetal fibronectin"
Objective: To evaluate clinical risk factors, cervical fetal fibronectin (fFN), cervical length, and mean gray value assessment in predicting of preterm delivery (PTD) in patients with signs and/or symptoms of preterm labor (PTL).
Study design: One hundred and seventeen women with PTL between 24 and 34 weeks of gestation were included...
Keywords: Cervical length, fetal fibronectin, preterm delivery, quantitative ultrasonic tissue characterization
10/2005 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Aims: Both acute placental inflammation and positive mid-gestational cervico-vaginal fetal fibronectin assays have been independently correlated with preterm delivery...
Keywords: Chorioamnionitis, fetal fibronectin, infection, placenta, preterm birth
02/2007 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Objective: Fetal fibronectin (fFN) has a high negative predictive value for delivery in the next seven days in patients at risk for preterm birth...
Keywords: fetal fibronectin, preterm birth, tocolysis
05/2008 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter