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Objectives; To study the incidence of vaginal deliveries following cesarean section and observe repercussions on maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, characteristics of labor curves, complications, hospitalization time and hospital costs. Method: Retrospective study of 21646 deliveries attended during 1991. The group study was alleatory, considering month by month. Results: Two thousand one hundred and forty one patients with previous cesarean section were admitted: 1489 (69,4%) were attended per vaginal route and 652 (30,6%) by cesarean section. The group study was selected from the 1489 vaginal deliveries; 98% had spontaneus normal vaginal delivery and 2% vacuum delivery; 96% had one previous cesarean section, 3% two previous cesarean section and 1% three previous cesarean sections. Period between deliveries was less than 24 months in 18% and over 48 months in 42%. Conclusio...
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Publicado 2015
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The authors present a collaborative study that prospectively has engaged 14 maternity hospitals in the public sector, 10 from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and 4 of the Peruvian Institute of Social Security (IPSS); Likewise 9 corresponded to Lima and 5 establishments were in other regions. Between March and July 1993 he managed to gather a total of 4205 cases of cesarean births attended between 21797 during the same period, representing a rate of 19.3%. There was no major difference in the rate between hospitals in Lima and provinces, but if a higher frequency was found in IPSS when compared with the MOH. The six most important causes of cesarean in Peru are: previous cesareada, acute fetal distress, breech birth, narrow pelvis, fetopelvic disproportion and toxemia, which remain more or less the same distribution between the MOH and IPSS. Some other epidemiological characteristics differ ...
