Estimates of stroke incidence and case fatality in Zabrze, 2005-2006.

Background And Purpose: Epidemiological rates for stroke obtained in the United States and Western Europe indicate a decrease in incidence and case fatality. Data published for Poland, as for other Central-Eastern European countries, reported unfavourable results, but this was based on data from the 1990s. The authors evaluated current stroke rates in a population study of the southern Poland city of Zabrze.

[Analysis of changes in the incidence of seizures in pregnant women with epilepsy].

Sixty-five (41%) of 153 pregnant women with epilepsy were selected for analysis because the course of the disease changed in them during pregnancy. In 43 of these women (67%) the frequency of seizures decreased and in 21 cases the seizures disappeared completely. In 22 patients (33%) the frequency of seizures increased in pregnancy.