Women often undergo early Caesareans or induced labor following detection of decreased amniotic fluid volume, because this is seen as a sign of fetal distress. While no gold standard exists for ...

Researchers at the 26th Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting today announced that profiling certain proteins in amniotic fluid is the fastest and most accurate way to detect ...

February 14, 2007 (San Francisco) -- A proteomic analysis of vaginal fluid from women in preterm labor is a noninvasive way to identify which women have intra-amniotic infection, according to ...

MONTVALE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AmniScreen™ (NYSE:BRL) is the first and only FDA-approved at-home screening test for amniotic fluid leakage during pregnancy, a condition that may lead to serious ...

What Qiagen gets is an FDA-cleared, one-step minimally invasive test used to detect small amounts of amniotic fluid in vaginal discharge, and results generate within a couple of minutes. There is a ...

As a fetus develops, its body is bathed in amniotic fluid: a warm, salty soup of nutrients, hormones, and antibodies produced by its mother. And into that fluid, a fetus is constantly sloughing off or ...

What is low amniotic fluid? Low amniotic fluid (oligohydramnios) is a condition in which the level of amniotic fluid measures lower than expected for a baby's gestational age. Under normal ...

Premature rupture of membranes (PROM) refers “to the spontaneous rupture of the amniotic sac prior to the start of labor.

Influencer Hailey Okula died of amniotic fluid embolism -- one of the leading causes of death during and just after childbirth. Hailey Okula — a nursing influencer known as “Nurse Hailey” — died late ...