The decisions of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU and the decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On additional measures to improve the health of the population" set new tasks for Soviet health care, the most important of which are improving the quality of obstetric and gynecological care, prevention and early detection of diseases, and improving women's health and children and their dispensary observation.
Purulent pericarditis in postpartum infection is extremely rare, and its diagnosis presents certain difficulties. In this regard, our observation deserves special attention.
Fifty-nine women were examined; 18 of them had pyosalpinx, 38 had pelveoperitonitis, and 3 had parametritis. The control group included 10 healthy women. The patients' age ranged from 22 to 42 years, averaging 31.71.8 years, and 33.70.6 years in the healthy women. When studying the anamnesis, it was established that all the women had infectious diseases in childhood. Eight patients had appendectomy, four had pneumonia, two had craniocerebral trauma, one had dysentery, three had thyroid disease. Of gynecological diseases, we should note frequent inflammatory diseases of the uterus and uterine appendages, colpitis, and cervical erosions (in 42 cases).
Syringomyelia is one of the widespread diseases of the nervous system: in different regions of the USSR its incidence is 25-34 per 100 thousand inhabitants. The average rate in the Udmurt ASSR per 100 thousand inhabitants is 34.25 1.57. Syringomyelia usually progresses slowly, leading to a reduction or loss of ability to work, disability at a young, employable age. Women aged 20-40 years most often suffer from this disease.
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