Do pregnant women with asymptomatic bacteriuria need treatment?

The April issue of the Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has published a very interesting article entitled “Asymptomatic pyuria in pregnant women during the first trimester is associated with an increased risk of adverse obstetrical outcomes” [1]. Lai and colleagues evaluated the outcomes of 1187 singleton pregnant women who were diagnosed with (n = 253) and without (n = 934) pyuria in the first trimester prenatal visit and found that women with pyuria had a significantly increased risk of preterm labor (defined by delivery before 36 gestational weeks) with odds ratio [OR] of 2.23 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.23–4.06), compared to those pregnant women without pyuria [1].
Source: Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research