[Distribution of blood groups and Rh-factors in pregnant women and neonates in the region of Sibenik].
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In a ten-year period the frequency of pregnant women with heart disorders amounted to 0.50%. In 83.87% of cases the disorders were acquired and in 16.13% congenital. According to the functional condition of the heart, 95% of the women observed belonged to the first and the second stage. In 82.26% the deliveries were spontaneously vaginal. The frequency of cesarean section proved four times as frequent as that in the control group (P less than 0.05). In not a single case was heart trouble alone the indication for cesarean section. Newborn children of women with heart disorders were slightly asphyxial (Apgar index 7-4) in 9.68% of cases as compared with 5.0% in the control group (P less than 0.05). The average birth mass of these newborns was 3491.9 +/- 2 SD 780.5 g and that in the control group 3,767.5 +/- 2 SD 824.2 g (P less than 0.05). Sixteen (25.8%) newborns in the early neonatal days had one or more neonatal complications, while those in the control group developed such complications in 14.2% of cases (P less than 0.05). Not a single child died perinatally. In the course of pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium only 3 (4.84%) women received cardiotonics and 22 (34.84%) antibiotics. The second day after delivery one puerpera developed paroxysmal tachycardia, while in all the remaining women the course of pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium was normal.
The paper reviews medical record data on psoriasis at the Sibenik Medical Center, Department of Skin Diseases, over a five-year period (1986-1990). Separate analysis was performed for hospital and outpatient departments. Various parameters were analysed, the most important being sex, age, type of disease and occupation. The outpatient department recorded 539 psoriasis patients, 302 (56.0%) males and 237 (44.0%) females. Psoriasis vulgaris was found in 478 (88.7%), arthropathic in 39 (7.2%), pustular in 9 (1.7%) and erythrodermic in 13 (2.4%) patients. Out of a total of 54,129 visits to the outpatient department, 2281 (4.2%) were due to psoriasis. A total of 1598 patients were hospitalized over the same study period, of whom 131 (8.2%) due to psoriasis, i.e. 81 (61.8%) males and 50 (38.2%) females. Psoriasis vulgaris was reported in 92 (70.2%), arthropathic psoriasis in 19 (14.5%), pustular in 9 (6.9%) and erythrodermic in 11 (8.4%) patients. A total of 46,368 hospital days were realized, with an average of 18 inpatient days. Out of those, 4710 (10.2%) were due to psoriasis, the average treatment lasting 16.7 days. In relation to the incidence and nature of this disease, as well as to health care costs, it can be concluded that psoriasis represents not only a serious medicosocial but also an economic and public problem.