[Ultrasonic diagnosis of fetal ascites with polyhydramnios resulting from partial small intestine atresia and secondary intestinal wall perforation].

A primigravida was admitted to hospital in the 31st week of pregnancy after normal pregnancy course, with premature rupture of the amnion. Ultrasonography revealed a marked fetal ascites as well as polyhydramnion. Pregnancy was terminated via Caesarean section because of threatening intrauterine asphyxia.

[The Williams-Richardson vaginopexy as a surgical therapy in vaginal inversion in vaginal stump prolapse].

Genuine prolapse of the vaginal stump following total hysterectomy, which must be differentiated from the relatively frequent vaginal descent after hysterectomy usually not requiring additional surgery, is generally a rare positional anomaly of the female genitalia and is by no means easy to correct. This phenomenon requires special surgery to restore or preserve the ability to have intercourse. The article discusses the surgical techniques described in international literature which are suitable for correcting a prolapse of the vaginal stump.

[Campylobacter infection and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome].

A 20-year-old man with an acute enteritis caused by Campylobacter fetus developed a haemolytic-uraemic syndrome on the fifth day of his disease. The pathogenesis of the disseminated intravascular coagulopathie , the nephropathie and the haemolysis are discussed. With increasing rate of isolation of Campylobacter, the connection of this infection with HUS may be seen more frequently.