[Transitory hypothermia as early prognostic factor in term newborns with intrauterine growth retardation].

Introduction: According to numerous researches, transitory hypothermia is a part of the neonatological energetic triangle and represents a significant prognostic factor within morbidity and mortality in newborns with intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), that are, due to their characteristics, more inclined to transitory hypothermia.

Objective: The aim of the study was an analysis of frequency of transitory hypothermia in term newborns with IUGR, as well as an analysis of frequency of the most frequent pathological conditions typical of IUGR newborns depending on the presence of transitory hypothermia after birth (hypoglycaemia, perinatal asphyxia, hyperbilirubinaemia and hypocalcaemia).

Methods: The study included 143 term newborns with IUGR treated at the Neonatology Ward of the Gynaecology-Obstetrics Clinic "Narodni front", Belgrade.

[Preterm delivery in a patient with frontal lobe brain tumor].

Introduction/aim: Brain tumors are very rare in pregnancy. Diagnosis could be very simple if one consider brain tumor alongside blurred symptoms of headache, repetitive vomiting and/or epileptic attacks during pregnancy. The aim of this paper was to emphasize the importance of such pregnancy expert control and completion.

[Frequency of uterine rupture at delivery and accompanying risks for the mother and the newborn].

Background/aim: Uterine rupture at delivery is a severe lifethreatening complication for both mather and the newborn. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of total number uterine rupture within the deliveries, to perceive circumstances and causes that lead to rupture, to establish perinatal and maternal mortality and to present our therapeutic procedure.

Methods: In the group of 37 ruptures at 59 660 deliveries from the period 1991-2000 included in this retrospective study we analyzed age, level of education, gestational age, parity, previous caesarian section and other operations on uterus, time of diagnosing rupture, grade and place of rupture, use of Syntocinon and Prostaglandin at delivery, perinatal and maternal mortality, as well as therapeutic procedures at rupture that occurred.

[Effects of epidural anesthesia on I and II delivery stage and on a newborn].

Background/aim: Epidural anaesthesia (EA) is the most efficient method of pain reduction and its total elimination during delivery. The aim of this study was to establish an influence of EA on the first and the second part of delivery process, frequency of vacuum extractor and forceps appliance, and the effect of EA on the newborn.

Methods: A total of 360 patients with EA were analysed at delivery and 1130 controls without EA.