Modified fetal biophysical profile in the assessment of perinatal outcome.

The aim of the study is the evaluation of variables of the biophysical profile in the assessment of perinatal outcome. The prospective study included 87 pregnant women with singleton pregnancy in the 28th to 42nd week of gestation with clinically and ultrasonically verified fetal growth retardation, where the fetal biophysical profile was assessed antenatally. Through the factor analysis of biophysical profile variables we obtained values indicating the contribution of individual variables to the predictability of perinatal outcome.

Anaphylactic shock in response to wasp sting in pregnancy.

A case is described of stage 3 anaphylactic reaction in response to wasp sting in a woman in 27th week of gestation, followed by premature delivery in 35th week of gestation as the result of postanaphylactic reaction.

[Fetal hypoxia--etiology and pathophysiology of hypoxic damage].

In current perinatology, the prevention of hypoxic damage to the organs, brain in particular, is given special emphasis. The causes of fetal hypoxia include maternal (preuterine), intrauterine, umbilical, placental and fetal causes. Hypoxia and hypoxic lesions occur prenatally in about 80%, and perinatally in 10-20% of cases.

[Delivery with the foot and umbilical cord alongside the head].

Compound presentation with a foot and umbilical cord alongside the head at the pelvis outlet in a primipara is described. A live femal newborn, birth weight 2850 g, birth length 49 cm, Apgar score 5/8/9, with normal postnatal development, was born by vaginal delivery.

[Effect of smoking on the feto-placental unit].

Tobacco smoke and its metabolites, especially nicotine, have an irritant, genotoxic, mutagenic, teratogenic, cancerigenic and psychoactive effect. Smoking during pregnancy is considered an antepartal (maternal) cause of fetal hypoxemia, i.e.

Activities of the 105th Croatian Army Brigade Medical Corps during the 1991-1992 war.

The organization and work of the medical corps of the 105th Croatian Army Brigade from Bjelovar, from October 18, 1991 to September 27, 1992, are presented. The brigade operated on the battlefields in East Slavonia, West Slavonia (Novska), and Posavina. Health care was also provided to the civilians living in the area.