Background: Preterm delivery occurrence (especially in thiose wome with a high risk) Predection is a matter of great importance in order to achieve careful antenatal care and decrease the incidence of associated maternal and fetal complications. Pregnant women US assessment, Since the development of transvaginal probes and the growing adoption of transvaginal sonography during pregnancy by patients, has been an essential aspect of obstetric diagnostic imaging recently.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to see if using ultrasound for cervical length measurements and uterine artery doppler may help predict preterm labour, especially in the high-risk mothers..
Patients and methods : Our study included 100 pregnant women at gestational age 18-26 weeks with history of preterm labor & threatened preterm labor who were recruited from Port Said Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialized Hospital, Port Said, Egypt.
Results: There was no discernible change in basic sociodemographic data based on the presence of premature labour. Except for the percentage of previous preterm, which was higher in the cases with preterm, there was no statistically significant variation in obstetric history according to the occurrence of preterm. When comparing the moms who gave birth to preterm babies to the mothers who gave birth to term babies, the percentage of HTN and dyslipidemia was statistically considerably greater. The preterm group had a statistically significantly greater rate of newborn problems.
Conclusion: Diagnostic accuracy of cervical length measurement was higher as compared with the PI of uterine artery.