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Prolonged rupture of membranes
After 37 weeks of pregnancy, if your water is broken for greater than 18 hrs, you are considered having prolonged rupture of membranes in the context of deciding whether or not you need antibiotics to prevent against neonatal infection if your gbs test results are not available. In most other contexts, 24 hrs is considered the threshold.
Dr. Liza Kunz reviewed this
23 year experience in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
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How typical is premature rupture of membranes?
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Signs of ruptured membranes during second trimester?
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If a septostomy is not performed, can the membrane rupture from a buildup in pressure?
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If cell membrane rupture, can contents flowing out of the ruptured cell react with compounds in the extracellular fluid to form another compound? Why?
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Can you have sex while in the hospital if premature ruptured membranes?
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Is preterm rupture of membrane is the same as preterm labor? What happens to the baby?
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if an organ was punched hardly, will a cell burst or its membrane rupture such that cellular content will flow out into the extracellular fluid?
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Do a lot of people get tympanic membrane rupture?
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How common is it for somebody to get tympanic membrane rupture?
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Is it possible for a doctor to rupture my membranes if I am nearly full-term?
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How long does premature rupture of membranes associated with polyhydramnios last?
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Can you tell me about premature rupture of membranes cause by villositis bacteria?
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Hi dr my mum 51 years old ..Her tympanic membrane (eardrum) is rupture from 10 years ago & now she suffer from discharge.. What she can do?
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I had a rupture of membrane when i was 13 weeks preg.. Now i'm 23 wks.. Doctors said we shold avoid sex.. But can I have only orgasm without sex?
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Eardrum ringing due to tympanic membrane rupture?
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Eardrum is ringing. Does that mean I have a tympanic membrane rupture?
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How does early rupture of membranes increase risk of transmitting all infections including HIV to the fetus?
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What analysis should be done to find a cause of preterm premature rupture of membranes at 24 weeks of gestation?
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How likely is it my induction via prostaglandins pessary & artificial rupture of membranes will be successful at 38wks 4dys? worried of c-section :(
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