Prediction of spontaneous preterm delivery in women with threatened preterm labour: a prospective cohort study of multiple proteins in maternal serum

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse whether specific proteins in maternal serum and cervical length, alone or in combination, can predict the likelihood that women with intact membranes with threatened preterm labour will deliver spontaneously within 7 days of sampling.

Keywords

• Sonographic cervical length
• inflammatory markers
• intact membranes
• amniotic-fluid
• selective use
• birth
• epidemiology
• plasma
• interleukin-12
• risk
• maternal serum proteins
• prediction
• preterm delivery
• xMAP technology