Re: OB: Study Finds Brain Bleeding with Vaginal Births

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Jan 30 10:35:09 2007


John

whether or not the moms delivered abdominally labored or not is unclear. I have emailed the authors.

If you email me, I can send you a copy of the article.

Art

At Tue, 30 Jan 2007, johnprov@sympatico.com wrote: >
>At Tue, 30 Jan 2007, art fougner, md wrote:
>>
>>Here we go ...
>>
>>About a quarter of babies born in vaginal deliveries had a small amount
>>of bleeding in their brains, while none delivered by Caesarean section
>>did, according to a study published on Tuesday.
>>
>>But the researchers at the University of North Carolina School of
>>Medicine in Chapel Hill said it was premature to view their surprising
>>findings as an endorsement of C-sections.
>>
>>They said the findings suggest brain bleeding in some newborns has been
>>commonplace in vaginal deliveries throughout history, but is being
>>detected now only because of highly sophisticated imaging technology.
>>
>>"There's no evidence that these bleeds are associated with problems in
>>later life in either mental or physical function or ability," said Dr.
>>Honor Wolfe, an obstetrician involved in the study published in the
>>journal Radiology.
>>
>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070130/sc_nm/babies_brain_dc_1
>>
>>Art
>>
>I would like to see the paper, sounds like they compared unlabored
>c-sections with labored vag delievery, I would be surprised if labored
>c-sections did not show they same amount of insignificant radiology
>bleeds as labored vag delieveries.
>>
>>--
>>art fougner, md
>>"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
>>

--
art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton




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