[A set of questionnaires for the assessment (screening) of psychological disorders and social problems in cardiac rehabilitation patients].

A set of questionnaires for the assessment (screening) of psychological and social problems in cardiac rehabilitation patients is analyzed for its psychometric properties. The test battery had before been consented by a task force of the German Association for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Disease, DGPR. It integrates generally approved and well-tried assessments for depression/anxiety, social isolation (vocational) stress, and subjective vocational disability.

Platelets deficient in glycoprotein IIIb aggregate normally to collagens type I and III but not to collagen type V.

The aggregation of platelets induced by collagens is considered an important step in primary hemostasis. Glycoprotein (GP) IIIb (GPIIIb, GPIV, CD36) has been proposed as a blood platelet receptor for collagen. Platelets from three healthy blood donors were shown to be clearly deficient in GPIIIb.

A simple and rapid immunomagnetobead technique for the analysis of platelet glycoprotein deficiencies.

A method for selective screening of platelet glycoprotein deficiencies, based on the use of antibody-coated magnetobeads and light microscopic examination is reported. The method is simple, time-saving and needs less than 1 ml of blood.

Thrombospondin binds normally to glycoprotein IIIb deficient platelets.

Glycoprotein IIIb (GPIV, CD36) has been proposed as the platelet receptor for thrombospondin (TSP). We found two healthy blood donors, whose platelets were shown to be GPIIIb deficient. These platelets expressed endogeneous TSP as control platelets and their binding capacity for exogeneous TSP was the same.

[Maternal morbidity following cesarean section: effect of infection control and preventive use of antibiotics].

1. Between 1976 and 1986, data were collected prospectively by a nurse specializing in hygiene on postoperative infections in the 3508 low cervical cesarean sections carried out at the University Gynecological Clinic in Tübingen. Over the past four years, this has also included data on noninfectious complications.

[Maternal morbidity following cesarean section. Comparison of isthmo-corpus longitudinal section and isthmian transverse section in premature labor].

In an increasing number of cases of the Caesarean delivery of small premature babies (length of gestation less than 32 weeks or an estimated weight of less than 1501 g) between April 1983 and March 1987, the uterus was opened by an isthmo-corporeal longitudinal section if the lower uterine segment appeared too narrow for a gentle delivery via an isthmian transverse incision. A comparison of 67 Caesarean deliveries of this type with 116 Caesarean deliveries of the same small premature babies using an isthmian transverse incision did not reveal any difference with regard to postoperative infections, feverish standard morbidity, or other noninfectious complications. In comparison with Caesarean deliveries of older babies, the Caesarean deliveries of small premature babies had significantly more infectious and noninfectious complications, such as cases of phlebitis of the arm owing to intravenous application (2.

[Decrease in nosocomial infection based on continuous monitoring and control. 7 years' experience in a women's clinic].

During a seven-year programme of surveillance and control of infection data were collected by a specialist hygiene nurse on 47 551 gynaecological, obstetric and post-partum patients. The infection rate was highest (40.5%) after major surgical procedures.

[The risk of infection to the mother prior, during and after delivery. A registration of nosocomial infections].

During 5 1/2 years all infections arising in the hospital (nosocomial infections) were registered prospectively by an infection control nurse. The incidence of all nosocomial infections in 3192 maternity patients was 2.1%.

[Short-term therapy of postoperative urinary tract infections in gynecology].

The clinical efficacy of short-term therapy was investigated in a prospective study of 100 patients with urinary tract infection following gynecologic surgery. Nitrofurantoin macrocrystals were administered to 50 patients in a dosage of 100 mg every 12 hours for two days, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole was administered also to 50 patients in a dosage of 160 and 800 mg respectively every 12 hours for two days. The cure rate for nitrofurantoin macrocrystals was 76%, that for TMP/SMX 86%.

[Nosocomial infections (author's transl)].

Within 3 years 2546 nosocomial infections were registered among 18 897 hospitalised patients of a gynaecological-obstetric university hospital, Results were obtained in a prospective study on the use of nurses specially trained in hygiene. The incidence of nosocomial infections was 13.5% including predominantly asymptomatic bacteriurias and 3.