Professional paper
ANOMALIES OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AS PERINATAL PROBLEM IN TUZLA
Enida Nevačinović
Zlatan Fatušić
Fahrija Skokić
Indira Šerak
Gordana Grgić
Igor Hudić
Abstract
CNS anomalies currently represent a big challenge in the perniatal medicine. Objective. To present the incidence of CNS anomalies in newborns at the Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Tuzla in the period from 1. 1. 1996. to 31. 12. 2003. Methods. By retrospective study during the eight-year period, incidence of CNS anomalies has been ¬assessed, as well as the types of certain anomalies, quality of antenatal care and age of mothers who delivered newborns with CSN anomalies. The obtained results have been evaluated by using standard descriptive statistic methods. Results. During the observed period 647 newborns were delivered with congenital anomaly. The 76 of them had CNS anomalies, so that the incidence of anomalies is 1:544, and prevalence 1,83/1000. The distribution of CNS anomalies was: spina bifida 55,26%, microcephalus 26,62%, and hydrocephalus 18,42%. Average mothers’ age who delivered babies with CNS anomalies is 30,4±7,15 and is similar to the age of mothers in all investigated women. Antenatal care is insufficient: over 20% of mothers who delivered babies with CNS anomalies did not have a single medical control during ¬pregnancy, optimal number of controls in observed group was performed in only 8% of them. Conclusion. The incidence of CNS anomalies in the total number of all the deliveries and total number of newborns with anomalies is still much higher in comparison with the developed European countries, that may be related to insufficiently developed antenatal care.
Keywords
anomalies; central nervous system; antenatal care
Hrčak ID:
15809
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Publication date:
1.3.2006.
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