Cranial ultrasound examination was performed on 91 low birth weight infants to determine the occurence of cerebral hemorrhage with or without ventriculomegaly. In very low birth weight infants cerebral hermorrhage was found in 35 percent, while the hemorrhage plus ventriculomegaly was found in 18 percent of the infants. In all low birth weight infants cerebral hemorrhage was found in 17 percent…
Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are still important community health problem in developing countries. The aim of this diagnostic test was to determine the diagnostic role of plain chest roentgenogram in patients with rheumatic mitral valvular disease. Subjects were patients with rheumatic mitral disease without other vular lesions, congenital heart disease, or anemia, who visited th…
A study was done on 30 encephalistis patients treated and discharged from Dr. Pirngadi Hospital Medan in the year 1990-1991. The study was conducted cross sectionally. The aim of the study was to find out the type and percentage of neurological deficits, including factors associated with the sequelae. Eight patients (27 percent) developed neurogical deficit only (3 percent) patient developed ne…
One of the most common classification of malaria transmission in particular area is based on the levels of endermicity. It could be quantified by determination of children with enlarged spleens and parasitemia. A 'cross sectional study' was carried out with the purpose of finding out the proportion of elementary school children aged 6-9 years with enlarged spleen and parasitemia and the influen…
We report a case of a five-years-old child with congenital anomaly caused by maternal cytomegalovirus infection and toxoplasmosis, hospitalized in pediatric ward Sardjito General Hospital. The diagnosis was established from the history of illness, physical examination, and laboratory findings. The presence of microcephaly, failure to thrive, deaf and mute, congenitally transmitted infection was…
A case of NEC in a six days old asphyxiated premature infant was reported. The diagnosis was based on predisposing factors including low weight infant, severe ashpyxia, her mother suffered from fever and premature ruptur of the amniotic membrans more than 24 hours. Clinical features include abdominal distention with discoloration of the abdominal wall, vomiting bloody stool, sclerema, temperatu…
Rearing of Ma. uniformis has been carried out for the purposes of experimental research on filarial disease. Many constrains were encountered in the effort to find an appropriate method of rearing for the high yield of the mosquitoes in the laboratory. Further studies to improve the method of rearing be developed.
The history and progress of the expanded program on immunization (EPI) in Indonesia have been discussed. With the current coverage achievement. The program optimistically would achieve one of the global. as well as the national, target-polio eradication-by the year of 2000. However, based on the experiences in other countries. The high coverage per se was not sufficient for freering the wild po…
Immunization is one of the activities of communicable diseases control in man in our country which cost alocated more higher than the other activities. Thus, Immunization programme audit should be more important on Public health Service Improvement project. The prior problem is how to select among many immunization managements which first audited by the auditor, and than the using audit methode…