Does Maternal Body Mass Index or Weight Gain Affect External Cephalic Version Success? [19H]

Maternal body mass index and external cephalic version success rate — are they related?

“…Chaudhary et al has evaluated a large group of 51 002 ECV and he showed a slightly worse success rate in morbidly obese patients (BMI > 40) [21]. Holman et al in a group of 135 patients didn't prove the relation [22]. Other studies showed that maternal BMI can affect the success rate [5,14] or not [8-10, 23, 24] but the size of these groups ranged between 67 and 250 patients.…”