Abstract

BREECH DELIVERY, RETROSPECTIVE STUDY ABOUT 303 CASES

Zakaria Idri*, Yousra Essaadi and Ahmed Mimouni

Abstract

Obstetrical management of breech births remains a controversial issue. Our work comes to evaluate the obstetrical practices in terms of breech birth in the maternity of a regional hospital in Morocco. It is a retrospective study including all breech pregnancies delivered in our level II maternity hospital from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013. Out of the 303 patients studied, 260 (85.80%) had a vaginal delivery attempt, of whom 239 (91.92%) delivered vaginally. Several factors were taken into consideration when deciding on the route of delivery and parity seems to be the most important element taken into account before attempting a vaginal delivery. The neonatal results remain less clear and a prospective study in collaboration with neonatologists would be of great interest.

Keywords: Breech presentation, vaginal delivery, cesarean section, neonatal outcomes.