본 대학부속 한강성심병원 산부인과에서는 지난 1977년 6월부터 1989년 6월까지 만 12년간 분만차 내원 분만한 척추후만증 임산부에 대한 증례 집약분석보고와 아울러 지금까지 보고된 여러 문헌과 비교 고찰하였다.

KYPHOSCOLIOSIS, or "hunch-back", was recognised at the time of Hippocrates, and it was he who classified the abnormal spinal curvatures into kyphosis, scoliosis, and lordosis. Hippocrates also recognised the association between chest deformities and cardiorespiratory failure when he wrote "such persons as become hump-backed before puberty from asthma of cough, die." Various conditions have been reported to be the cause of kyphosis including tuberculosis, trauma, poliomyelitis, congenital abnormalities, rickets and osteomalacia. In these cases, obstetric importance of different according to the level of kyphosis in abnormal fetal presentation, prematurity from fetal aspect and anemia, preeclampsia, cardiopulmonary failure, uterine inertia, dystocia and circulatory failure from the maternal aspect. Occasionally, especially at labor and postpartal state, the circulatory failure may drive the patient to death. Generally it is recommended to perform the contraception and therapeutic abortion in earlier pregnancy and needed the precise antepartal fetal monitoring and evaluation of the cardiopulmonary function at later pregnant state. At labor they should expect the possibility of the vaginal delivery, but in the major cases the Cesarean Section is recommended and at postpartal state, great concerns should be taken to the possibility of the cardiopulmonary failure and the pneumonia. Recently, we experience the 8 cases of pregnant patients with kyphosis, so here we report the cases with the related literatures.