Skip to main content

Table 2 Clinical course and maternal morbidity between groups

From: Clinical course of preterm prelabor rupture of membranes in the era of prophylactic antibiotics

 

Study group (n = 119)

Control group (n = 51)

P value

Latency periods (hours) median (interquartile)

89.8 (26, 175.3)

24.3 (8.4, 60.3)

< 0.001

 > 2 days

77 (64.7%)

16 (31.4%)

< 0.001

 > 7 days

35 (29.4%)

4 (7.8%)

0.002

GA at delivery (weeks)

32.5 ± 1.9

31.9 ± 2.2

0.80

Mode of delivery

  

0.30

 - Vaginal delivery

82 (68.9%)

31 (60.8%)

 

 - Forceps & vacuum extraction

3 (2.5%)

1 (2%)

 

 - Cesarean section

31 (26.1%)

15 (29.4%)

 

 - Breech assisting

3 (2.5%)

4 (7.8%)

 

Maternal infectious morbidity

21 (17.6%)

7 (13.7%)

0.52

  - Chorioamnionitis

19

6

 

  - Metritis

1

1

 

  - Wound infection

1

0

 

Median day of hospitalization (interquartile)

8 (5, 12)

4 (2, 6)

< 0.001

  1. Data presented as median (interquartile), mean ± SD or n (%).
  2. GA: gestational age.