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Premature birth (PTB, birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy) is a global, yet unsolved, problem. With a global amount of approximately 15 M babies born prematurely, PTB is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality in many countries. Furthermore, premature babies often have complicated medical problems, especially those born very early.
Some women spontaneously deliver prematurely without any symptom or sign of the imminent labor, whereas others present with symptoms of preterm labor (PTL). In the latter case, clinicians can intervene and treat the woman with tocolytics and antenatal corticosteroids in order to accelerate fetal lung maturation and reduce the risk of respiratory distress syndrome. However, one of the major challenges in the management of women presenting with symptoms of PTL is to distinguish between true and false PTL with the existing clinical methods (digital examination or transvaginal cervical length assessment). In fact, over 50% of the women presenting with PTL symptoms do not deliver prematurely and are still unnecessarily hospitalized and treated with corticosteroids as well as tocolytics, and only less than 10% of women give birth within 7 days of presentation. Unnecessary treatments and hospitalizations also result in increased health costs.
Thus, there is a need for more accurate methods and tools to evaluate the cervical maturation status as indication of imminent labor in order to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and therapy.
Recently, cervical stiffness has been evaluated as more reliable tool for prediction of spontaneous preterm birth. Cervical stiffness can be evaluated using ultrasound by cervical elastography , but also by an aspiration technique-based method with a novel CE-marked device, the Pregnolia System.
Thus, the aims of this study are to evaluate:
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Premature birth (PTB, birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy) is a global, yet unsolved, problem. With a global amount of approximately 15 M babies born prematurely, PTB is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality in many countries. Furthermore, premature babies often have complicated medical problems, especially those born very early.
Some women spontaneously deliver prematurely without any symptom or sign of the imminent labor, whereas others present with symptoms of preterm labor (PTL). In the latter case, clinicians can intervene and treat the woman with tocolytics and antenatal corticosteroids in order to accelerate fetal lung maturation and reduce the risk of respiratory distress syndrome. However, one of the major challenges in the management of women presenting with symptoms of PTL is to distinguish between true and false PTL with the existing clinical methods (digital examination or transvaginal cervical length assessment). In fact, over 50% of the women presenting with PTL symptoms do not deliver prematurely and are still unnecessarily hospitalized and treated with corticosteroids as well as tocolytics, and only less than 10% of women give birth within 7 days of presentation. Unnecessary treatments and hospitalizations also result in increased health costs.
Thus, there is a need for more accurate methods and tools to evaluate the cervical maturation status as indication of imminent labor in order to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and therapy.
Recently, cervical stiffness has been evaluated as more reliable tool for prediction of spontaneous preterm birth. Cervical stiffness can be evaluated using ultrasound by cervical elastography , but also by an aspiration technique-based method with a novel CE-marked device, the Pregnolia System.
Thus, the aims of this study are to evaluate:
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Gabriele Saccone, md
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