[Pregnancy course in women with terminal kidney failure treated with hemodialysis]. / Przebieg ciazy u kobiet z terminalna niewydolnoscia nerek leczonych hemodializami.

According to the European Dialysis and Transplantation Association at least 250 patients on each 1 million of inhabitants in Europe is treated with renal replacement therapy. One can assumed that if only half of above mentioned are women then from 5 to 10 of them can conceive pregnant. It's likely that number of pregnant women with end-stage renal disease depending on different forms of renal replacement therapy will increase. These facts determined us to present study concerning to course of pregnancy in women with end-stage renal disease treated with haemodialysis.

[Clinical forms of respiration disorders in newborn infants]. / Kliniczne postacie zaburzen oddechowych u noworodków.

Ventilatory disturbances are the most often cause of death in neonates. The study was carried out on 80 neonates, treated in the intensive care unit. In all during the first 48 hours the following symptoms occurred: tachypnoea (above 60 per minute), cyanosis, retraction of the intercostal muscles, expiratory disturbances. Diagnosis of clinical forms of ventilatory disturbances was made basing on Hjalmarson's criteria. The results of this study imply that the most often seen form of ventilatory disturbances in neonates in the hyaline membrane disease--found in 45% of the cases. The highest mortality (75%) was seen in the meconium aspiration syndrome.