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Background The debate surrounding the management of term breech presentation has excessively focused on the mode of delivery. Indeed, a steady decline in the rate of vaginal breech delivery has been observed over the last three decades, and the soundness
Lionel Carbillon +7 more
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Background Breech presentation has been associated with adverse perinatal and maternal outcomes. However, the incidence and associated perinatal and maternal outcomes has not been fully explored in Tanzania.
Michael Johnson Mahande +2 more
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Background: Australian women seeking a vaginal breech birth report limited access to this option due to resistance from clinicians and strict medical criteria.
Rigg, Elizabeth +3 more
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Factors associated with death in the delivery room of infants born in breech planned vaginal delivery (breech PVD).
Clémentine Pierre (11587197) +8 more
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Since essential factors have changed in recent years in assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs), this study reassessed the association between ART and breech presentation.
Claudia Massarotti +5 more
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Background Breech presentation is observed in 3–4% at term of pregnancy and is one of the leading causes of cesarean section. There is no established treatment for breech presentation before 36 weeks.
Hiroki Shinmura +11 more
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The mechanism of labor in nonhuman primates: A look inside
Abstract While in humans, the flexed position of the fetus and its rotating course down the birth canal are well documented, in other primates the mechanism of labor is unknown. Despite the lack of comparative data, it is commonly assumed that the human obstetric mechanism is unique, and anthropologists have disputed when and why the transition to the ...
Melissa K. Stoller
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Abstract Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality have declined dramatically during the last century. Historical data are therefore important sources to study the evolutionary selection pressures related to childbirth and how they have fluctuated over time.
Mirella Woodert +7 more
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Clinical Evaluation of Breech Deliveries Over a Fifteen-Year Period at a Hospital in Ota, Japan [PDF]
Objective : To examine the characteristics and perinatal outcome of pregnancies with breech presentation. Methods : Breech deliveries were divided into four groups : primipara vaginal delivery group (PV-multipara vaginal delivery group (MV-G), planned ...
Inaba, Fujiyuki +5 more
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The “costly son” hypothesis: Sons exacerbate obstetrical dilemmas in humans and other mammals
Abstract Human childbirth has often been considered uniquely difficult among mammals, yet recent evidence suggests that obstructed labor and fetopelvic disproportion are widespread across placental mammals. Here, we propose the “costly son” hypothesis: because male offspring are typically larger at birth, they impose greater obstetric risk on mothers ...
Nicole D. S. Grunstra +1 more
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