Assuntos
Betametasona/administração & dosagem , Glucocorticoides/administração & dosagem , Nascido Vivo , Pulmão/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Trombocitopenia/tratamento farmacológico , Adulto , Feminino , Desenvolvimento Fetal/efeitos dos fármacos , Idade Gestacional , Humanos , Contagem de Plaquetas , Gravidez , Complicações Hematológicas na Gravidez , Primeiro Trimestre da Gravidez/sangue , Primeiro Trimestre da Gravidez/efeitos dos fármacos , Trombocitopenia/sangueRESUMO
Five hundred and forty-four immigrant women, admitted from 1983 to 1993 to the 2nd Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Rome University, were enrolled in the study. Africa and East Europe were the most common places of birth. Seventy-five per cent of women gave birth spontaneously, and a caesarean section was performed in 22.2%. The frequency of spontaneous delivery and caesarean section was about the same among Italian and immigrant women.
RESUMO
Sensitivity and specificity of three commercial latex agglutination tests, i.e. Streptex, Wellcogen (Wellcome Diagnostics, Dartford, England) and Directigen (Becton Dickinson, Baltimore, USA) were evaluated on 233 vaginal swabs and 208 urine specimens after 4h culture in comparison with traditional cultural and identification methods. On vaginal swabs sensitivity of Wellcogen and Streptex was shown to be comparable (43% and 37% respectively), but both tests gave several false positive results; Directigen test showed higher (100%) specificity, but its sensitivity was very low. On urine cultures all the tests were shown to be unsatisfactory in comparison with traditional methods, sensitivity and specificity being demonstrated to be poor.
