Does intra-amniotic infection increase amniotic lamellar body count before 34 weeks of gestation?
LBC is an accurate predictor of foetal lung maturity and our LBC cutoff value had a high NPV for predicting RDS. We showed that intra-amniotic infection was associated with significantly higher LBC values than the value in controls before 34 weeks of gestation, which correlated with a low incidence of RDS.
The tissue donation program performed by trained students was successful in achieving a high and sustainable tissue donation rate in a large university hospital.