[Our experience with antibiotic therapy in children hospitalized between 1979 and 1981]. / Esperienze sull'antibioticoterapia nel bambino ricoverato 1979-1981.

The use of antibiotics in the Children Hospital of Florence has been studied considering the whole hospital for 1979 and only one department for 1980-81. 7832 clinical records of children admitted to the Hospital have been analyzed in order to get more informations about the quality of antibiotic treatment and to understand the causes of use and misuse of this kind of drugs in pediatric practice.

[Extracardiac malformations in infants with congenital heart diseases: clinical research and statistics covering period 1969-79 (author's transl)]. / Malformazioni extracardiache nei lattanti con cardiopatie congenite: indagine clinico statistica nel periodo 1969-79.

The authors have examined the statistics of extracardiac malformations in infants with congenital heart disease, aged between birth and 12 months. Cases have been registered and studied within a period ranging from 1969 to 1979 at A. Meyer Hospital of Florence (Pediatric Institute of the University, Divisions of Medical Pediatrics and of Pediatric Surgery). Extracardiac abnormalities occur in 23,05% of infants seen during the first year of life for significant cardiac disease. Sometimes the extracardiac malformations are multiple and 66,3% of the affected infants have some established syndrome, especially chromosomal. The most frequent associated cardiac malformations are: ventricular septal defect (29,3%), complex heart disease (18,5%), non cyanotic heart disease with increased pulmonary blood flow (16,3%) and endocardial cushion defect (10,8%).