Delivery in breech presentation: Perinatal outcome and neurodevelopmental evaluation at 18 months of life.

Objectives: To compare maternal and perinatal outcomes, including neurodevelopmental results at 18 months of life, between term breech and cephalic deliveries.

Study Design: In this longitudinal retrospective study of mothers seen at the Maternity and Paediatric University Hospital of the Canary Islands delivery unit from November 1, 2011, to October 31, 2012, we compared maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with breech or cephalic presentation of the foetus. A second analysis was performed to compare breech births, differentiating between whether a vaginal delivery attempt was made or if caesarean section (C-section) without labour had been directly scheduled.

Epileptic status refractory to conventional treatment caused by vitamin B6 deficiency.

Epileptic seizures due to pyridoxine deficiency, although rare, are known to occur. They are characterized by untreatable convulsions during childhood. We present the case of an epileptic status resistant to conventional treatment in a 29-year-old woman, with no previous history of epileptic seizures, in the 29th week of pregnancy, who responded to the intravenous administration of pyridoxine.

Surveillance and risk factors on hysterectomy wound infection rate in Gran Canaria, Spain.

Objectives: Surveillance programs for nosocomial infection control may find out opportunities for improvement. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of surgical site infection and their potential risk factors after hysterectomy in a tertiary hospital in Gran Canaria, Spain.

Study Design: Prospective study on patients undergoing abdominal or vaginal hysterectomy between 1st June 2000 and 31st December 2004.