Left common peroneal nerve palsy caused by cross-legged sitting during epidural labor analgesia: a case report.

Shunya Ogawa, Hirotsugu Kanda, Hiromichi Kurosaki, Tomoyuki Kawamata

Open access · goldAbstract read

In one paragraph

Article in JA clinical reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

0citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact, top 96% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shunya OgawaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wakayama Medical University, Kimiidera 811-1, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan. shunya1224@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-3637

Hirotsugu KandaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wakayama Medical University, Kimiidera 811-1, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan.

Hiromichi KurosakiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wakayama Medical University, Kimiidera 811-1, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan.

Tomoyuki KawamataDepartment of Anesthesiology, Wakayama Medical University, Kimiidera 811-1, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan.

Wakayama Medical University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundNerve injury in epidural labor analgesia can occur with various potential causes. We report a rare case of left common peroneal nerve palsy after delivery caused by a prolonged period of sitting cross-legged during epidural labor. CASE REPORT: Epidural labor analgesia in a 28-year-old primipara started at 39 weeks of gestation. She sat cross-legged to prompt delivery for approximately 4 h with a break of a few minutes every hour. She had numbness in her left lower limb and difficulty in dorsiflexion of the ankle joint that did not improve until 3 h after delivery. We made a diagnosis of left common peroneal nerve palsy. Most of the symptoms had improved at 2 months postpartum.

conclusionEpidural labor analgesia prevented recognition of prolonged peroneal head compression caused by sitting cross-legged. When this position is used to facilitate delivery, it should be released frequently owing to the possibility of a neurologic deficit.

Indexed as

Common peroneal nerve palsyEpidural labor analgesiaSitting cross-legged position

Identifiers

PMID38378933

DOI10.1186/s40981-024-00698-0

PMCPMC10879039

OpenAlexW4392002814

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.