[Ruptured splenic artery aneurysm--a rare cause of recurrent gastrointestinal hemorrhages].

History And Clinical Findings: A 51-year-old asthenic patient attended the hospital with syncope, head injury, tarry stool and severe anemia. There was a history of alcohol and nicotine abuse, but no known preceding diseases of the liver or gastrointestinal tract. Except hypotension, examination of the patient did not show any further abnormalities.

[Multi-handicapped blind children].

In Magdeburg on the key day of the 31st of December 1983 73 children at 1 to 16 years of age have been registered to be blind or suspected to be blind. Nearly half of them (n = 38) is multiply injured, that means, besides blindness they show another relevant organic affection. A central position in the causes of blindness in multiply impaired children hold the retrolental fibroplasia, the intensive myopia, and the amblyopia (mostly temporary diagnosis).