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Article: NEONATAL NEUROLOGICAL MORBIDITY ASSOCIATED WITH UTERINE RUPTURE
- Article from:
- Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Taylor & Francis Ltd. May 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Objective: Uterine rupture (UR) is a sentinel hypoxic event that can cause brain damage in a previously healthy fetus. However, nothing is known about the risk of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy related to uterine rupture. The aim of our study was to examine neurological morbidity associated with uterine rupture during labour and to compare it with the morbidity associated with a nonreassuring fetal status (NRFS).
Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. We analysed all cases of term infants delivered after a symptomatic uterine rupture occurring at our hospital from January 1998 to September 2004, and compared them with a randomly selected group of infants born by operative delivery ...