Antenatal characteristics of Roma female population in Virovitica-Podravina County, Croatia.

Introduction: This study reports about antenatal characteristics of Roma minority population. The study was designed to investigate data about health behaviours known to be associated with reproductive outcomes of Roma women that have very good living conditions and relatively high resource availability.

Methods: A retrospective study included 204 Roma and 408 non-Roma hospitalised singleton births that occurred in the Maternity Ward of the General Hospital Virovitica in the period from 1991 to 2010.

Asymmetric neonatal crying: microdeletion, infection or birth injury?--a case report.

Asymmetric neonatal crying is a rare minor congenital abnormality caused by unilateral agenesis or hypoplasia of depressor anguli oris muscle and depressor labii inferioris muscle. It is either an isolated clinical finding or one of the clinical findings included in several malformation syndromes linked to a microdeletion within a chromosomal region 22q11.2.

Fetal macrosomia in pregnant women with gestational diabetes.

The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of fetal macrosomia in newborns from mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and healthy mothers, as well as determining the influence of fetal growth on pregnancy termination, on complications in pregnancy, during delivery and puerperium and on neonatal complications. In the study were included 351 pregnant women with GDM, as well as control group of 1502 healthy pregnant women. Newborns of mothers with GDM had significantly higher birth weight and length, ponderal index > 2.

[Early detection of hearing impairment in newborns using automatic otoacoustic emission in Virovitica County Hospital Maternity Ward].

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of hearing impairment in newborns and its successful early detection using automatic otoacoustic emission (A-OAE).

Methods: All newborns from Virovitica County Hospital Maternity Ward in the period 2004-2006 were included in the screening for hearing impairment. Their hearing was investigated using A-OAE.