Premature rupture of membranes refers to cases of spontaneous rupture of membranes before labor, which lasts for 28 weeks but less than 37 weeks. It is reported that PPROM can cause a series of serious obstetric complications, such as intrauterine infection, fetal distress, umbilical cord prolapse and neonatal respiratory distress syndrome caused by fetal lung dysplasia.
It not only endangers the life safety of pregnant women, but also seriously threatens the quality of life of premature infants, and the perinatal morbidity and mortality have increased significantly. Therefore, correct treatment of PPROM will be the key to reduce perinatal mortality.
Premature rupture of membranes is a common complication in obstetrics. Under normal circumstances, the fetal membrane is not easy to rupture before labor, but it can occur when there are some factors, such as infection, abnormal intrauterine pressure, cervical incompetence, trauma, fetal membrane structural dysplasia and so on. This data also shows that abortion, induced labor history, vaginitis, abnormal fetal position, twins and pregnancy-induced hypertension are common causes of PPROM.
Hazards of PPROM:
PPROM mainly has some complications. For example, if you get this disease, there will be some complications caused by premature infants and intrauterine infections, including neonatal respiratory distress, intraventricular hemorrhage, necrotizing small intestine, colitis, sepsis and other related diseases.
Prenatal corticosteroids effectively reduced the incidence of neonatal death, respiratory distress syndrome, intracranial hemorrhage and necrotizing enteritis. However, when the rupture of fetal membranes has been more than 24 hours, all these beneficial effects will disappear except reducing the incidence of respiratory distress syndrome; If premature rupture of membranes occurs for more than 48 hours, its effect of reducing respiratory distress syndrome will also disappear, so it should be used in time.