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To the Editor: Landon et al. (Dec. 16 issue)¹ report an increased risk of hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy, but not perinatal death, among the infants of women who attempted vaginal birth after prior cesarean delivery as compared with those who underwent planned repeated cesarean delivery. We previously reported an increase by a factor of approximately 12 in the risk of perinatal death in this context² but have recently shown that there is an inverse relationship between the risk of perinatal death and hospital volume.³ We reanalyzed our data on 124 singleton deliveries complicated by uterine rupture to determine whether neonatal survival after . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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