Pregnancy complications

In this section, one review suggests that planned management of women with prelabour rupture of membranes at term reduces the risk of infection-related maternal morbidity. The commentary on another review notes that cervical cerclage should be performed only in high-risk cases in which there is a cervical factor during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. Yet another review reports that treatment of bacterial vaginosis with oral antibiotics reduces preterm, prelabour rupture of membranes and the risk of low birth weight, but not the risk of preterm birth before 37 weeks of gestation.