The maternal-fetal medicine units cesarean registry: chorioamnionitis at term and its duration—relationship to outcomes

Obstetric care in low-resource settings: What, who, and how to overcome challenges to scale up?

“…Clinical diagnosis is based on presence of unexplained maternal fever, rapid fetal heartbeat, tender uterus, and/or foulsmelling amniotic fluid. Although prevalence data are poor, both subclinical and symptomatic intra-amniotic infections have been associated with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (pPROM) and preterm labor [119,120], as well as labor abnormalities, increased need for oxytocin, and increased risk of cesarean delivery. In addition, maternal fever alone has been shown to be an independent risk factor for intrapartum-related mortality and neonatal encephalopathy, with an adjusted OR of approximately 10-fold [15,121].…”

Early Brain Injury in Premature Newborns Detected with Magnetic Resonance Imaging is Associated with Adverse Early Neurodevelopmental Outcome

“…Chorioamnionitis was considered present if diagnosed clinically (maternal fever > 38°C during labor or fetal tachycardia with uterine tenderness, treated with antibiotics). 16 Postnatal infection was diagnosed if culture-positive sepsis, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, or meningitis was noted.…”

Quality of antenatal care as a risk factor for early onset neonatal infections in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“…The independent variables selected for the multivariate analyses were those associated with a p-value <0. 15 …”