Conference paper
Authors list: BAUMANN, P; JOVANOVIC, V; GELLERT, G; RAUSKOLB, R
Publication year: 1991
Pages: 551-557
Journal: Prenatal Diagnosis
Volume number: 11
Issue number: 8
ISSN: 0197-3851
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.1970110810
Conference: 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON EARLY FETAL DIAGNOSIS : RECENT PROGRESS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Publisher: Wiley
Abstract:
Cervico-genital colonization with micro-organisms poses a potential threat to the pregnancy when transcervical (TC) CVS is performed. In order to evaluate this threat, cervical swabs in 478 patients were obtained and cultured for bacteria, yeasts, and mycoplasmas; chlamydias were detected by an enzyme immunology test. Two hundred and seventy-one patients had CVS done transvaginally and 207 underwent transabdominal (TA) CVS. Transvaginal specimens were obtained in 61.6 per cent by forceps biopsy. Overall in 29.9 per cent of patients micro-organisms were detected, the rate and distribution of different species being the same in both groups. There were 36 (7.5 per cent) miscarriages up to 28 weeks of gestation in the combined groups, 29 (10.7 per cent) in the TC-CVS group and 7 (3.4 per cent) in the TA-CVS group. When miscarriages occurred after TC-CVS, bacteria/yeasts were involved in 10.3 per cent of cases and mycoplasmas in 37.9 per cent, this proportion being almost the same in early (< 2 weeks) and late (> 2 weeks) miscarriages. After TA-CVS, in 28.6 per cent only mycoplasmas, and this only in late miscarriages (> 2 weeks), were involved, accounting for 40 per cent of late miscarriages.
Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: BAUMANN, P., JOVANOVIC, V., GELLERT, G. and RAUSKOLB, R. (1991) RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AFTER TRANSCERVICAL AND TRANSABDOMINAL CVS IN RELATION TO BACTERIAL-COLONIZATION OF THE CERVIX, Prenatal Diagnosis, 11(8), pp. 551-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.1970110810
APA Citation style: BAUMANN, P., JOVANOVIC, V., GELLERT, G., & RAUSKOLB, R. (1991). RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AFTER TRANSCERVICAL AND TRANSABDOMINAL CVS IN RELATION TO BACTERIAL-COLONIZATION OF THE CERVIX. Prenatal Diagnosis. 11(8), 551-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.1970110810
Keywords
CHORIONIC VILLUS SAMPLING; EARLY MISCARRIAGES; LOSSES; Mycoplasmas; PRENATAL-DIAGNOSIS; UREAPLASMA-UREALYTICUM; WOMEN
