Prepartum and postpartum complete blood cell counts and its
difference
The results of pre- and postpartum complete blood cell count of
parturients are shown in Table 4. Almost all displayed data illustrated
the significant difference between prepartum and postpartum maternity
apart from the lymphocytes in intrapartum fever expectant mother
(P = 0.307). The elevated value of complete blood cell counts
after labor included WBC, PLT, neutrophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes
in both fever and non-fever parturients. On the contrary, postnatal RBC
and Hb fallen remarkably. The mean of postpartum RBC fallen from 4.02 ×
1012/L to 3.70 × 1012/L (P< 0.0001) in fever parturients and fallen from 3.98 ×
1012/L to 3.81 × 1012/L (P< 0.0001) in afebrile maternity. For Hb, the value fallen from
119.75 g/L to 110.53 g/L (P < 0.0001) in fever group
and fallen from 118.23 g/L to 113.55 g/L (P < 0.0001)
in non-fever group.
In order to explore whether intrapartum fever would aggravate or
alleviate the change of complete blood cell counts before and after
delivery, we therefore used
postpartum data of maternity complete blood cell count minus the
corresponding prepartum data (Table 4). Table 4 illustrated that
elevated WBC, PLT, and neutrophils, as well as reduced RBC and Hb,
remained appreciably difference. The difference value of WBC (2.95 ×
109/L vs. 2.28 × 109/L, P< 0.0001) and neutrophils (2.95 × 109/L vs.
2.28 × 109/L, P < 0.0001) preferred
higher in intrapartum fever group, yet lower for PLT (10.60 ×
109/L vs. 11.91 × 109/L, P =
0.023) in intrapartum fever subjects. Besides, RBC (-0.32 ×
1012/L vs. -0.17 × 1012/L, P< 0.0001) and Hb (-9.21 g/L vs. -4.68 g/L, P< 0.0001) descended more obviously in fever maternity.
However, monocytes (P = 0.185) and lymphocytes (P = 0.459)
recommend pronounced discrepancy in intrapartum fever and afebrile
group.