This can lead to death of the baby or other complications. Historically, the rate of fetal death in the setting of cord prolapse has been as high 40%. However, these estimates occurred in the context of home or births outside of the hospital. When considering cord prolapses that have occurred in inpatient labor and delivery settings, the rate drops to as low as 0-3%, though the mortality rate remains higher than for babies without cord prolapse. The reduction in mortality for hospital births is likely due to the ready availability of immediate cesarean section. Many other fetal outcomes have been studied, including Apgar score (a quick assessment of a newborns health status) at 5 minutes and length of hospitalization after delivery. While both measures are worse for newborns delivered after cord prolapse, it is unclear what effect this has in the long-term. Relatively large studies that have tried to quantify long-term effects of cord prolapse on children found that less than 1% (1 in 120 studied) had a major neurologic disability, and less than 1% (110 in 16,675) had diagnosed cerebral palsy. Epidemiology
Rates of umbilical cord prolapse ranges from 0.1 to 0.6% of all pregnancies. This rate has remained stable over time. A recent study estimates 77% of cord prolapses occur in singleton pregnancies (where there is only one baby). In twin pregnancies, cord prolapses occur more frequently in the second twin to be delivered, with 9% in the first twin and 14% in the second twin. References


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See also
Linear verrucous epidermal nevus
List of cutaneous conditions

References
Further reading
"Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus             | Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) – an NCATS Program". rarediseases.info.nih.gov. Retrieved 25 April 2017. == External links ==