Risk factors for emergency caesarean section in planned vaginal breech delivery.

Purpose: To identify risk factors for emergency caesarean section in women attempting a vaginal breech delivery at term.

Methods: Data from 1092 breech deliveries performed between 1998 and 2013 at a Swiss cantonal hospital were extracted from an electronic database. Of the 866 women with a singleton, full term pregnancy, 464 planned a vaginal breech delivery.

Serological testing for infectious diseases in pregnant women: are the guidelines followed?

Questions: Are the guidelines for serological testing in pregnancy followed, and are the results on hand on admission to the labour ward?

Methods: From 1.1.2007 to 31.

Expression of the BCRP gene (ABCG2/MXR/ABCP) in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

The breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP), also known as mitoxantrone resistance protein (MXR) or placenta ABC protein (ABC-P), is the second member of the ABCG subfamily of ABC transport proteins (gene symbol ABCG2). BCRP has been detected in acute myeloid leukaemia and in breast, colon and gastric cancer but there has been no reports regarding BCRP expression in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). We report the first results of BCRP expression in childhood ALL.