Are histopathologic chorioamnionitis and funisitis associated with metabolic acidosis in the preterm fetus?
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A study is conducted to determine whether histologically confirmed chorioamnionitis and funisitis are associated with fetal metabolic acidosis. The results reveal that intrauterine infection, as confirmed by histologic chorioamnionitis and funisitis, is not associated with fetal metabolic acidosis and intrauterine infection may represent a nonhypoxic form of encephalopathy that produces neurologic morbidity by a mechanism independent of hypoxia-ischemia leading to metabolic acidosis.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 2004
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Neonatal cerebral white matter injury in preterm infants is associated with culture positive infections and only rarely with metabolic acidosis
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Risk factors associated with neonatal cerebral white matter injury representing a major precursor for neurological impairment were studied. Culture-positive infection was associated with an increased risk of cerebral white matter injury in preterm neonates.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 2004
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Effect of gestational age and hypoxia on activity of ribonucleic acid polymerase in fetal guinea pig brain
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Low oxygen levels in the fetal guinea pig brain cause a decrease in the activity of ribonuclease I and III but an increase in the activity of bound ribonuclease II activity. This could reflect a change in gene expression during oxygen deprivation.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 2001
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