Lactobacillus gasseri and Increased Gestational Age at Delivery

• Vaginal probiotics on the outcomes of premature rupture of membranes: a pilot randomised clinical trial.

  • 2022-11-17
  • RCT · n = 27
  • Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 42(8)
  • • Denise Vasconcelos de Moraes
    • Dinalva Brito de Queiroz
    • José Eleutério

  • PubMed: 36632810
  • DOI: 10.1080/01443615.2022.2151349

  3 Insights on

  • Increased Gestational Age at Delivery

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  the latency period and gestational age at delivery were higher in group 1 than in group 2. Thus, vaginal use of L. rhamnosus and L. gasseri along with standard treatment appears to increase the latency period and gestational age at delivery in women with PROM.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes