. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 19.

Published in final edited form as: J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2008 Sep;21(9):663–670. doi: 10.1080/14767050802215664

Table IV.

Amniotic fluid concentrations of SP-A and SP-D in patients who had and those who had not received antenatal corticosteroids within 7 days prior to amniocentesis

	steroids			no steroids
	without IAI	with IAI	p	without IAI	with IAI	p
SP-A (μg/ml)	2.12 (0.74-4.45)	1.75 (1.08-2.48)	0.41	0.33 (0.82-4.34)	1.49 (0.86-1.76)	0.8
	n=21	n=8		n=11	n=6
SP-A/Pro (μg/mg)	0.36 (0.08-1.24)	0.27 (0.11-0.73)	0.4	0.23 (0.07-0.84)	0.20 (0.14-0.34)	0.4
	n=21	n=8		n=11	n=6
SP-D (ng/ml)	6.10 (0-25.2)	10.6 (6.50-23.0)	0.2	11.8 (0-24.4)	6.2 (0-52.4)	0.7
	n=15	n=5		n=5	n=5
SP-D/Pro (ng/mg)	0 (0-7.27)	1.03 (0-4.58)	0.5	1.16 (0-4.01)	0 (0-7.22)	0.4
	n=15	n=5		n=5	n=5

• IAI: intra-amniotic infection; values are presented as median (range)