| pubmed-article:7712867 | pubmed:abstractText | During a four year period, 60 patients with premature rupture of membranes (PROM) met the inclusion criteria of having a single living fetus with gestational age between 25 to 36 weeks and more than 24 hours between PROM and delivery were admitted in Karolinska Hospital, Sweden. These cases were reviewed retrospectively. Five neonates died postnatally and the total survival rate was 91.7%. Three of them had major malformations and one died of hyaline membrane disease with 29 weeks of gestational age. In only one case the immediate cause of death was due to infection. The present protocol of expectant treatment for PROM in this hospital tends to be a minimum of unnecessary intervention for obtaining a high survival rate. | lld:pubmed |
