[Fatal course of neonatal citrobacter infection and its legal evaluation].

Objective: The article describes fatal course of citrobacter central nervous system infection in the neonates and the subsequent legal responsibility of the medical facility.

Subject: Case report with the review of a lawyer specialized in medical law.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Faculty of Military Health Science, University of Defence, Hradec Králové.

Education and the risk factors of ischaemic heart disease.

Screening for the risk factors of ischaemic heart disease among the male residents of the district of Prague 4 aged 40--49 years was undertaken under the "National multifactorial primary preventive study of myocardial infarction and stroke". Of the 11 091 men invited, 5395 met the defined criteria and were admitted to the study. 58% of them were included in the risk group.

Computer-aided determination of haemodynamic properties of human heart from cine left ventriculography.

The silhouettes of the left ventricle seen on a cine ventriculogram were used as the graphic input to a pattern analysis programme. The programme measured the coordinates of points around silhouette. It selected the longest chord within the perimeter and determined its length, the area within the perimeter, and the volume of the resulting ellipsoid of revolution.