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  2. Prelabor rupture of membranes - Wikipedia

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    PPROM causes one-third of all preterm births. [22] PROM provides a path for disease-causing organisms to enter the womb and puts both the mother and baby at risk for infection . Low levels of fluid around the baby also increase the risk of umbilical cord compression and can interfere with lung and body formation of the baby in early pregnancy.

  3. Rupture of membranes - Wikipedia

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    Preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) is when water breaks both before the onset of labor and before the pregnancy's 37 week gestation. [3] [4] In the United States, more than 120,000 pregnancies per year are affected by a premature rupture of membranes, which is the cause of about one third of preterm deliveries. [5]

  4. Artificial rupture of membranes - Wikipedia

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    [2] Another Cochrane Review could not draw any conclusions about the effectiveness of using amniotomy as a means of induction when comparing amniotomy alone vs. expected management or amniotomy alone vs. oxytocin alone. [3] 2. To enable the doctor or midwife to monitor the baby's heartbeat internally.

  5. Complications of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol: Use during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. [67] Tobacco use: During pregnancy, causes twice the risk of premature rupture of membranes, placental abruption and placenta previa. [68] Also, it increases the odds of the baby being born prematurely by 30%. [69]

  6. Mercer protocol - Wikipedia

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    The Mercer protocol is a common regimen for antibiotic prophylaxis in the context of preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) during pregnancy, when immediate delivery is contraindicated due to known or suspected fetal lung immaturity.

  7. Fetal membranes - Wikipedia

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    During early pregnancy, the amnionic epithelium is sparsely covered in microvilli, which increase in number throughout pregnancy. [4] The function of this microvillous surface is associated with a densely-packed glycocalix with anionic binding sites; these are thought to be involved with intra-amnionic lipid synthesis. [ 4 ]

  8. How Trump's 'big discussion' around vaccines and autism could ...

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    The Wakefield paper looked at just 12 children in the U.K. with developmental delays, and said eight children who received the common measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine developed behavioral ...

  9. Antenatal steroid - Wikipedia

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    Antenatal steroids have also been shown to have definite beneficial effect in treating the condition of preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). [8] Similar to its effects on preterm birth, research evidence suggests that the administration of antenatal steroids to patients with PPROM reduces risks of neonatal mortality, intraventricular hemorrhage and respiratory distress syndrome.