Vaginal fluid interleukin-6 concentrations as a point-of-care test is of value in women with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes
2016
Abstrakt
The point-of-care assessment of interleukin-6 in vaginal fluid is an easy, rapid, non-invasive, and inexpensive method for the identification of intra-amniotic inflammation and microbial-associated intra-amniotic inflammation in preterm PROM pregnancies, showing good specificity and negative predictive value.