Table 1.
Histological grade for acute intrauterine inflammation.
Fig 1.
Amniotic Fluid (AF) Interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, and Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) levels of the study population according to the results of the placental histological examination and AF culture.
AF IL-6, IL-8, and MMP-9 levels were lowest in women with a negative AF culture without histologic chorioamnionitis (HCA) (group 1), followed by those with HCA but a negative AF culture (group 2), and highest in those with a positive AF culture (group 3) (AF IL-6: group 1, median, 0.509 ng/mL [range, 0.004–11.825 ng/mL] vs. group 2, median, 2.842 ng/mL [range, 0.047–59.934 ng/mL] vs. group 3, median, 17.839 ng/mL [range, 0.009–104.121 ng/mL]; AF IL-8: group 1, median, 0.318 ng/mL [range, 0.012–11.492 ng/mL] vs. group 2, median, 1.348 ng/mL [range, 0–52.335 ng/mL] vs. group 3, median, 21.253 ng/mL [range, 0.046–113.969 ng/mL]; AF MMP-9: group 1, median, 0.593 ng/mL [range, 0–87.920 ng/mL] vs. group 2, median, 1.572 ng/mL [range, 0–2267.941 ng/mL] vs. group 3, median, 99.232 ng/mL [range, 0–2303.970 ng/mL]; each P-value is shown on the graph).
Table 2.
Clinical characteristics and pregnancy outcome of the study population according to the results of placental histological examination and amniotic fluid (AF) culturea.
Table 3.
Neonatal outcome of the study population according to the results of the placental histological examination and Amniotic Fluid (AF) culturea