Congenital rubella syndrome despite repeated vaccination of the mother: a coincidence of vaccine failure with failure to vaccinate.

Congenital rubella syndrome occurred in a boy born to a mother who had been properly vaccinated three times before conception, but developed only low titers of rubella antibody. The non-vaccinated father most likely infected the mother on a home visit during the third to fifth weeks of gestation. He served in the army and fell ill during an outbreak of a rubella-like disease in his military unit.

[Early detection of critical aortic isthmus stenosis in the neonate].

Between 1985 and 1992 7 newborns with critical coarctation of the aorta were referred with clinical signs of beginning or manifest cardio-vascular shock and subsequently underwent a primary operative correction. All of the children were noticed by their parents as having unspecific clinical symptoms such as poor feeding and tachypnoea. The aim of our clinical effort should be to detect all newborns with critical coarctation of the aorta before manifestation of a cardiogenic shock, i.

Fetal rhabdomyomatous nephroblastoma. Pathologic histology and special clinical and biologic features.

Fetal rhabdomyomatous nephroblastoma is a very rare variant of Wilms' tumor. The special clinical and histologic features of this variant are presented on the basis of a case seen in a boy who was 13 months old at nephrectomy 8 months ago and has remained healthy since then. The tumor chiefly consists of fetal striated muscle; it occurs predominantly in infancy and early childhood and is often bilateral.