[Prenatal diagnosis of coiling of the umbilical cord around the neck and its effect on early neonatal prognosis].

"Real time" ultrasonic equipment enables antenatal diagnosis of nuchal encirclement by the umbilical cord. One hundred cases of normal term pregnancies were sonographically examined immediately before programmed delivery induction with a purpose of finding the cord around fetal neck. During the delivery all the patients were CTG monitored, after delivery the blood was taken from the umbilical artery for the acid-base balance analysis and also the Apgar score was determined.

[The breech partogram].

A partogram was made after analysis 383 spontaneous breech deliveries of primiparas and 343 of multiparas. The height of parturients was 160 cm or more, gestational age between 37 and 42 weeks and the newborn birthweight between 2500 and 3900 g. The newborns did not show any signs of fetal damage from the period of pregnancy or delivery.