[Bacteriological analysis of the cervical canal in uterine cervix insufficiency]. / Bakterioloska analiza cervikalnog kanala kod insuficijencije grla maternice.

A bacteriological analysis was made of pyogenic agents from the cervical canal of 260 pregnant women with cervical incompetency, in whom the cerclage of the cervix was performed. Pyogenic agents were found in 139 (53.5%) pregnancies. The most frequently isolated pathogenic agent was Enterococcus--in 19.2% of all pregnant women and in 36.0% in those with a pathologic swab. E. coli was isolated in 16.5% of all pregnant women and in 30.9% of those with the pathologic swab. A significantly higher number of pathologic swabs were found in women with colpitis and the cleanliness 3 degree of the vaginal discharge and without colpitis (6.4%). In pregnant women with a pathologic swab, in spite of the cervical cerclage, spontaneous abortions and premature deliveries were significantly more frequent (8.2% and 16.4% respectively) than in pregnant women with a sterile swab (1.8% and 6.1% respectively).

[Cervical pregnancy treated by conization]. / Cervikalna trudnoca lijecena konizacijom.

Cervical pregnancy in a 23-year-old patients is presented. The local finding corresponded to criteria for the diagnosis of cervical pregnancy. The diagnosis was confirmed by an immunological test (Gonavislide) and ultrasound. Conization was applied, and in the conization material the pathologist found chorial villi with a great many trophoblasts in direct contact with the muscular cervical layer.

[Amniocentesis in Rh immunisation (author's transl)]. / Nase iskustvo s amniocentezom kod Rh imunizacije.

Amniocentesis was performed 56 times in 42 pregnant women with Rh immunisation. In 6 cases of Rh immunisation there was a high delta bilirubin extinction in the B zone of the Liley diagram; in these cases immunosuppressive therapy with corticosteroids was applied. In all these cases also exsanguinotransfusion in children proved necessary. In 16 pregnant women, in whom the delta bilirubin extinction was in the A zone of the Liley diagram, high bilirubin values required exsanguinotransfusion in children.