[Immunologic parameters in women with threatened premature labor]

The authors examined some immunological indicators in a group of female patients with imminent premature delivery and compared them, using statistical methods, with findings in a control group. The objective was to find a possible predictive value of the investigated parameters for the diagnosis of subclinical intraamnial infection as the possible cause of so-called idiopathic premature delivery. In the immunoglobulin classes they did not find significant differences between the two groups. In the group of patients with an imminent premature delivery they found, however, statistically significantly higher levels of the C3 component of complement, of orosomucoid, alpha-2 and gamma-globulins. They compared the results with data in the literature and assume that some immunological indicators can, after confirmation of the results by other authors, serve as the prediction of subclinical intraamnial infection with imminent prematurity.