ALLMedicine™ Breech Delivery Center

Jul 10th, 2021 - Pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (PSIS) is a distinct developmental defect of the pituitary gland identified by magnetic resonance imaging and characterized by a thin, interrupted, attenuated or absent pituitary stalk, hypoplasia or aplasia o...

May 4th, 2021 - The objective of this retrospective, nationwide Finnish population-based cohort study was to determine whether there is an association between preterm caesarean breech delivery in the first pregnancy and maternal and neonatal morbidity in the subs...

Apr 2nd, 2021 - To evaluate the obstetrical prognosis of term breech delivery in case of asymmetric pelvis. An observational, comparative, retrospective, bi-centric study of 559 patients who had a computer tomography pelvimetry prior to delivery of a term breech ...

Dec 15th, 2020 - Pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (PSIS) is a rare congenital abnormality characterized by thinning or disappearance of the pituitary stalk, hypoplasia of the anterior pituitary and an ectopic posterior pituitary. Although the etiology of PSIS...

Nov 15th, 2020 - To evaluate obstetrician/gynecologist and midwife perspectives and experiences with vaginal breech deliveries in Ghana. Respondents completed a survey on their experiences, training, comfort levels, and decision making about vaginal breech deliver...

Apr 26th, 2020 - In the United States, there is a widespread belief that the overall cesarean birth rate is higher than necessary. Efforts are being directed toward decreasing the number of these procedures, in part by encouraging physicians to make changes in the...

Jul 26th, 2018 - There is a trend in the United States to perform cesarean delivery for term singleton fetuses in a breech presentation. The number of practitioners with the skills and experience to perform vaginal breech delivery has decreased. The decision regar...

Aug 4th, 2009 - To review the physiology of breech birth; to discern the risks and benefits of a trial of labour versus planned Caesarean section; and to recommend to obstetricians, family physicians, midwives, obstetrical nurses, anaesthesiologists, pediatrician...

Jun 14th, 2017 - Breech presentation occurs in approximately 3-4% of all births and all women with breech presentation at term undergo cesarean delivery. The only way to avoid a cesarean is to manually turn the baby prior to the date of delivery, a procedure known...

Jun 13th, 2013 - At term 2 to 3% of singleton pregnancies are in breech presentation. Many of these deliveries are managed by cesarean delivery due to higher neonatal morbidity associated with vaginal breech delivery. Cesarean delivery, the safer option for the ba...

Dec 2nd, 2015 - An analysis of data from World Health Organization (WHO) member states suggests that national cesarean delivery rates of approximately 19 per 100 live births are associated with lower maternal or neonatal mortality. This number stands in contrast ...

May 22nd, 2015 - It's hard to resist a book whose protagonist opens with the line, "I am going to make this medical student cry." Written from the perspective of a jaded senior resident in obstetrics/gynecology, "Baby City" is billed as fiction but contains quite ...

Apr 17th, 2015 - In cases of breech presentation, planned cesarean delivery is associated with fewer adverse outcomes than vaginal delivery or cesarean delivery during labor, according to a study of 52,671 breech births. Moreover, a new review of several studies, ...

Oct 1st, 2014 - Should a baby that presents breech at term be delivered vaginally or by cesarean delivery? In October 2000, results of the Term Breech Trial (TBT), the largest randomized controlled trial to investigate the effect of delivery mode for term breech.

Aug 12th, 2014 - The Netherlands analysis excluded women with preterm delivery, stillbirth, multiple gestation, transverse position, and breech delivery, as well as women whose deliveries involved both forceps and vacuum and women who had a midline episiotomy. Fac.