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J Maksimović

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PubMed1989

[Breech presentation in multiple pregnancy].

A retrospective analysis of the ten-year experience with the delivery of twins in breech presentation was performed in this paper. Out of 17,300 deliveries there were 173 deliveries of twins which accounted for 1%. From that number there were 99 (57.2%) multiple deliveries where one or both of the twins were in breech presentation. Deliveries in this group were more frequently terminated surgically (31.8%) than in the whole population of deliveries of twins (x2 = 26,182; p less than 0.001). In this group of 99 deliveries, out of 198 twins 117 were born with the body mass less than 2,500 g (59.1%) and 56 (56.6%) pregnancies were terminated prior to 37th week of gestation. Perinatal mortality was greater in the group of twins with breech presentation (12.52:9.8%). Breech presentation put the fetus at risk due to two reasons--multiple pregnancy (high prematurity and newborn with the delay in fetal growth and development) on one hand and complications which may arise during the breech presentation on the other.

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[In memory of Galen--on the 1800th anniversary of his death].

In the year 1999 or 2000 it is the 1800th anniversary of Galen's death. He was one of the leading thinkers in medicine and one of the best known physicians of all times. He was not only a gifted practitioner but also a first class anatomist, physiologist, pathologist, and pharmacologist of the ancient times. His work is present in all these parts of medicine. This article gives Galen's biography and contributions to the above mentioned medical disciplines and practice. During fourteen centuries Galen's works were undisputable textbooks for students of medicine and most valuable manuals for practitioners besides the works of Hippocrates. Galen founded a new medico-philosophical school, based on that of Hippocrates, but comprising all medical knowledge of that time as well as his remarkable medical experience. While Hippocrates formulated the basis of the clinical medicine and the members of the Alexandria school made the most important discoveries in anatomy and physiology, Galen compiled all the knowledge of his predecessors, added a philosophical basis and created a unified system for centuries believed to be a definitive one where nothing should be added. Besides Hippocrates, Galen was the most outstanding physician of the ancient times and one of the greatest of all times. He established the fundamentals of the medical science which are still significant.

Greece, Ancient↗