OBJECTIVE To determine whether breech presentation is an independent risk factor for neonatal morbidity, mortality, or long-term neurologic morbidity in very preterm infants. DESIGN Prospective population-based cohort. POPULATION Singletons infants without congenital malformations born from 27 to 32 completed weeks of gestation enrolled in France in 1997 in the EPIPAGE cohort. METHODS The...

Background. The breech extraction of the fetus through the vagina has a greater risk of hip fracture compared with the extraction by abdominal route. Case. A 2390 g female infant was delivered at 39 weeks by elective cesarean section for breech presentation. The newborn sustained a fracture of the right femur. A simple immobilization of the limb in extension led to a complete healing of the fra...

Enrollment in the Term Breech Trial was stopped on April 21, 2000 with 2088 enrollments out of the proposed trial of 2800. The Data Safety Monitoring Committee reported “the results were clearly in favour of planned Caesarian section”.[1] When data was excluded from analysis for those women who had prolonged labour, induction/ augmentation of labour with oxytocin/prostaglandins, epidural anaest...

Femoral fractures due to birth trauma are an extremely rare but important birth injury. While vaginal breech delivery, although rare, can cause femur fracture, abdominal breech delivery is not expected to cause fracture. Here we report on a low birth weight infant who was delivered by cesarean section for breech presentation at 30 1/7 weeks of gestation and sustained a unilateral fracture of th...

.. Objective: To determine the obstetric and perinatal outcome of pregnancies with singleton breech presentation, and to scrutinize the causes of increasing incidence of cesarean section in breech presentation. Design: Analytical Observational study. Place and duration: Department of obstetrics and gynecology Fatima hospital Baqai university campus from Jan 2010 to Oct 2011. Patients & Methods:...

This is a retrospective study conducted at Princess Badee'a Teaching Hospital in North Jordan to compare neonatal loss and morbidity in term singleton breech infants delivered either vaginally or by caesarean section. In this study, all singleton term breech presentation at 37 completed weeks' gestation were reviewed. Three hundred and eight singleton term babies, presenting by the breech were ...

The management of breech presentation at term remains controversial. It appears logical that maternal and perinatal outcomes would be improved if breech presentation could be avoided. External cephalic version is considered a safe procedure if cases are selected appropriately and anaesthesia avoided. Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese method of treatment, which utilizes the heat generated by ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether simulation training improves resident competency in the management of a simulated vaginal breech delivery. METHODS Without advance notice or training, residents from 2 obstetrics and gynecology residency programs participated in a standardized simulation scenario of management of an imminent term vaginal breech delivery. The scenario used an obstetric birth simu...

BACKGROUND A comparison of fetal ultrasonographic biometric parameters of the head (head circumference - HC, biparietal diameter - BPD) in breech presented fetuses. METHODS Ultrasound biometry was performed in accordance with the method presented in the reference tables. In all breech presented fetuses, the HC, BPD and FL (femur length) were measured. High-risk and multiple pregnancies were e...