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E Calzolari

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Failure in intrauterine contraception. Analysis of 137 cases of unfavourable outcome.

137 cases of unfavourable outcome in IUD insertion (i.e. early removal or expulsion because of complications) were investigated as regards age, parity, previous intrauterine contraception, previous induced abortion, type of device inserted, and type of complications observed. Moreover, this group was compared for each feature mentioned with a control group of 454 women who successfully concluded the prescribed period from the insertion. All the devices were inserted with a significantly higher rate of favourable outcome in pluriparous versus nulliparous patients; age probably didn't affect the outcome, but strongly conditioned the prevalence of particular complications such as PID and abnormal bleeding. Progesterone-loaded IUD didn't show a more favourable outcome than copper devices.

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[Genito-urinary malformations in a regional survey in Emilia Romagna].

In a multicentric survey carried out in Emilia Romagna area on congenital malformations 1914 babies out of 103484 babies born from 1978-1984 were discovered to have malformations. Out of these malformations cases 17% were found to be affected by genitourinary tract anomalies (GU) divided as follows: 235 genital malformations and 91 urinary tract anomalies. All these GU patients were diagnosed within the first week of life. Genital malformations: Genital malformations are mainly constituted by hypospadias, found in 214 out of 235 babies. Among these babies, 72% have first degree hypospadias, 22.4% have second degree, and only ten babies were found with third degree hypospadias. In this study 4.1 out of 1000 male newborns have been found affected by hypospadias, in agreement with the results of other researches whose values were between 2% and 4.4%. Many different variables (such as parental age, exposure to smoke, alcohol, RX-ray before pregnancy, low birth weight, early age at menarche, exposure to progestins for threatened abortion, shorter gestation) have been considered in order to verify their correlation with the hypospadias, comparing with control group. Among these the most statistically significant are the exposure to progestins for threatened abortion (p less than 0.05), early age at menarche (p less than 0.001) and the intrauterine growth retardation (p less than 0.001). Also these results agree with the previous studies. Urinary tract anomalies: the 93 babies with kidney and-or urinary tract malformations out of 103484 newborns represent the 8.9%. The diagnoses were made or suspected (and later confirmed) during the first week of life.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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[The Emilia-Romagna Abnormalities Study Group: coverage and geographic distribution of congenital abnormalities in Emilia-Romagna].

Systems for monitoring Congenital Malformations (C.M.) have been taken up by most Countries, even though there is great diversity in the methods of data collection. In Italy nothing existed until 1977. In 1978 in the Emilia-Romagna Region an epidemiological Program began for the surveillance and monitoring of all C.M. diagnosed in the first 7 days of life in the newborn babies and in the stillbirths of over 28 weeks of gestational age. After three years of monitoring-1978 to 1980-we have reached the baseline data which is the fundamental prerequisite to ensure comparability of data from different centers and within our region in different periods too. The incidence of all C.M. was 1.9% in the first three years of monitoring with no statistical difference from year to year or between the Districts of the Region. For six selected C.M. we studied the incidence in the Region and also in the four Districts starting from 1978. Our data is comparable to that reported in the other Countries but we observed high incidence of Down Syndrome (17.2 per 10,000 births that is one of the highest values detected = 1 case every 582 newborn babies). For hypospadias we observed, starting from the second quarter of 1980, a progressive increase that dropped however in the first quarter of 1981. No etiologic clues have yet been revealed.

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