Histological chorioamnionitis and neonatal leukemoid reaction in low-birth-weight infants

Vincenzo Zanardo1, Stefania Vedovato, Daniele D Trevisanuto

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Padua University, 35128, Italy. zanardo@pediatria.unipd.it

Human Pathology
|December 20, 2005
PubMed

We investigated whether histological chorioamnionitis (HCA) is a risk factor predisposing to leukemoid reaction (LR) and whether LR is associated with the preterm parturition syndrome and the systemic fetal inflammation response syndrome. A prospective histological study on placentas was performed in preterm infants (