[Electron microscopy of lymphocytes in patients with acute paralytic ileus].

Characteristic changes of the cells were revealed while examination of 36 patients with an acute adhesional impassability of small intestine and of 14 healthy persons using electron-microscopic method of the peripheral blood lymphocytes studying. The authors consider the observed dystrophic nuclear changes, the nuclear membrane structure and mitochondrial architecture disorders, partial lysis of plasmatic membrane to be the morphological substrate of the intracellular power and the lymphocytes immunoactivity changes.

[Clinico-morphological characteristics of fetuses and newborn infants of mothers with hemorrhagic shock].

A clinical and morphological analysis has been done using 24 obstetric histories of mothers with hemorrhagic shock (HS) and autopsy protocols of fetuses and newborns who died ante-, intra- or postpartum. Maternal HS was related to placenta previa and presented as a poor general status and microcirculatory disorders, respiratory and adrenal insufficiency. Histologic and electron microscopic studies showed fetal and neonatal lesions in organs and tissues which might be interpreted as irreversible shock.

[Birth injuries and lesions of the spinal cord in the perinatal period].

The paper presents a clinical and pathological analysis of 40 deliveries, autopsy findings in fetuses and newborns with combined birth injury of the brain and spinal cord, perinatal disease entities associated with intrapartum spinal lesions and disease entities which entail secondary spinal lesions. A subgroup of newborns with intraventricular hemorrhage showed at autopsy diffuse subarachnoidal hemorrhage of the cervical and thoracic spinal segments as a function of its extension into the cerebrospinal fluid system. Guidelines for pathological diagnosis in the pediatric practice are offered.