[Diagnostic algorithm in pregnancies of uncertain viability or unknown location - a review of the latest recommendations].

Based on current knowledge the criteria for diagnosing nonviability in early intrauterine pregnancy and diagnostic algorithm in pregnancies of unknown location have changed. For either an intrauterine pregnancy of uncertain viability or a pregnancy of unknown location, the consequences of false positive diagnosis of nonviability or false negative diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy may be dire: harming of a potentially normal intrauterine pregnancy or a life-threatening rupture from tubal pregnancy. This review aims to present the most important results of current studies on this topic with their recommendations and to improve patient care reducing the risk of inadvertent harm to potentially normal pregnancies.

Aerosol radioactivity record in Bratislava/Slovakia following the Fukushima accident--a comparison with global fallout and the Chernobyl accident.

Results of radioactivity measurements in Bratislava aerosols following the Fukushima accident showed that at least three radioactive plumes arrived to Bratislava as indicated by (131)I/(137)Cs activity ratios. When compared with the Chernobyl results available for the Bratislava station, the Fukushima radionuclide levels were almost five orders of magnitude lower, with the maximum values for (131)I and (137)Cs of 0.5 and 0.

Distributions of (137)Cs and (210)Pb in moss collected from Belarus and Slovakia.

In the present work, moss samples collected in Slovakia and Belarus were assayed with respect to gamma-emitting radionuclides. The results for (137)Cs and (210)Pb are discussed. Moss was used for the first time in Belarus, as a biological indicator of radioactive environmental pollution in consequence of the Chernobyl accident in 1986.