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Published in final edited form as: J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2008 Oct;21(10):732–744. doi: 10.1080/14767050802361807

Table III.

Maternal plasma concentrations of Tissue factor and Tissue factor pathway inhibitor in patients with preterm PROM with and without intra-amniotic infection and/or inflammation in comparison to women with normal pregnancy

	Preterm PROM without IAI (n=31)	Preterm PROM with IAI (n=37)	p value	Normal pregnancy (n=86)	p value^‡
Tissue factor (pg/mL)^†	423.5^* (3.3-899.4)	369.4^* (105.3-2551.0)	0.9	291.5 (6.3-2662.2)	0.026
Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (ng/mL)	58.7 (31.2-116.0)	59.7 (37.8-83.6)	0.3	66.1 (14.3-86.5)	0.23

Data presented as median (minimum, maximum)

IAI: intra-amniotic infection/inflammation

PROM: prelabor rupture of membranes

p<0.05 in comparison to normal pregnancy group

^†

normal pregnancy (n= 79)

^‡

Kruskal Wallis test