The Role of Delivery Route on Colostrum Melatonin and Serum Il-6
                    Levels: a Prospective Controlled Study

Canan Çalışkan; Samettin Çelik; Safak Hatirnaz; Handan Çelik; Bahattin Avcı; Andrea Tinelli

doi:10.1055/a-1524-3373

Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie, Table of Contents

Z Geburtshilfe Neonatol 2021; 225(06): 506-512
DOI: 10.1055/a-1524-3373

Original Article

The Role of Delivery Route on Colostrum Melatonin and Serum Il-6 Levels: a Prospective Controlled Study

Authors

Canan Çalışkan

¹Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsun Education and Research Hospital, Samsun, Turkey
Samettin Çelik

¹Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsun Education and Research Hospital, Samsun, Turkey
Safak Hatirnaz

²IVF Center, Medicana İnternational Hospital, Samsun, Turkey
Handan Çelik

³Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ondokuz Mayis Universitesi, Samsun, Turkey
Bahattin Avcı

⁴Biochemistry, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Samsun, Turkey
Andrea Tinelli

⁵Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Veris delli Ponti” Hospital, Scorrano, Lecce, Italy, Lecce, Italy

Abstract

Introduction the aim of this study was to determine whether maternal serum IL-6 and postnatal melatonin levels change with the mode of delivery.

Materials and Methods a prospective controlled study was performed on pregnant women (17–43 years) over 37 weeks of pregnancy. Patients were divided into three groups according to the route of delivery: Group 1) 30 women delivering by vaginal route; Group 2) 30 delivering by iterative cesarean section (CS); Group 3) delivering by emergency CS. Maternal serum IL-6 levels were measured before and after delivery, and maternal colostrum melatonin levels after delivery, and the results between the 3 groups compared.

Results pre-delivery and post-delivery maternal serum IL-6 levels were significantly higher in patients who delivered vaginally than in patients who delivered by the abdominal route (p<0.01). Maternal colostrum melatonin levels of patients after delivery were significantly higher in patients who delivered vaginally (32.88±7.16 ng/L) than in patients who delivered by elective and emergent cesarean deliveries (24.86±2.40 ng/L and 23.73±4.03 ng/L, respectively) (p<0.01).

Conclusion These data support, should there ever be a further need, the benefit of vaginal delivery over cesarean section, in which cytokine and melatonin levels are reduced compared to vaginal delivery.

Key words

Interleukin 6 - melatonin - colostrum - vaginal delivery - cesarean section

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