Corrective Bandage for Conservative Treatment of XXXX : Retrospective Study.

@entity1 @entity2611 @entity5109 @entity46654
BACKGROUND: @entity46654 ( @entity46654 ) is the most common @entity2611 observed in @entity1 . OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were: (1) to analyze the evolution of a corrective bandage for semirigid @entity46654 in newborns and (2) to recommend the age interval at which to start treatment of @entity46654 with the corrective bandage alone, without the need of splints. DESIGN: An observational clinical study was conducted. METHODS: The study was conducted at Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville, Spain. @entity1 born with semirigid @entity46654 at the hospital during the years 2010-2011 were included. Corrective bandaging was applied to all @entity1 until clinical correction of the deformity. Sex, laterality of the deformity, weight and length of the newborn, age at the start of treatment, antecedents related to the pregnancy and birth, type of treatment (bandaging, splints), and correction or no correction with bandaging alone were recorded. Age differences at the start of the bandaging treatment between @entity1 whose deformity was corrected with and without the need of splints were examined. The receiver operating characteristic curve method was applied to analyze the predictive ability of the age at the start of bandaging treatment relative to whether the deformity was corrected or not corrected with bandaging alone. RESULTS: The bandage achieved complete correction in 68.1% of the @entity1 and corrected the deformity more frequently in @entity1 compared with @entity1 . Of the 56 @entity1 who began the treatment within the first month of life, 92.8% achieved correction of the @entity5109 with the corrective bandaging alone. LIMITATIONS: @entity1 ' follow-up time was only 2 years, so it was only feasible to analyze the corrective bandaging method over the short term and medium term. CONCLUSIONS: Corrective bandages showed high effectiveness, particularly in @entity1 , and overall when started within the first month of life.
