TOTBİD Dergisi

TOTBİD Dergisi

2015, Cilt 14, Sayı, 3     (Sayfalar: 158-161)

Congenital clubfoot epidemiology

Rahmi Can Akgün 1, Orçun Şahin 1

1 Başkent Üniversitesi Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Anabilim Dalı, Ankara

DOI: 10.14292/totbid.dergisi.2015.24
Görüntüleme: 549
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İndirme : 479

As a congenital malformation, clubfoot is one of the most common foot abnormality of the childhood. There are various studies in the literature with regard to the etiology and possible risk factors of the clubfoot. Nevertheless, there is still an ongoing debate about the actual cause of this abnormality. In oder to have more qualified studies, all newborns with clubfoot should be registered in a national database with relevant codes of diagnosis and demographic information. By this way, all newborns with clubfoot can be accurately followed and treated and the cases are recorded properly. The general consensus in the literature is that clubfoot is seen in one in every thousand live births, and each year 150 thousand new cases are diagnosed with this abnormality. The risk factors for the clubfoot that have been already analyzed in the literature include embriological and mechanical factors, and genetic and environmental factors. Additionally, maternal risk factors and problems related to consanguinity have also been evaluated in the literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler : clubfoot; epidemiology; risk factors