[Clinical characteristics of neonatal infants born to mothers with pulmonary tuberculosis].

Abstract

Three hundred and seventy neonatal infants born by mothers with pulmonary tuberculosis were examined. A control group comprised 121 neonatal babies born by apparently healthy women. The infants born by ill mothers weighed less. In the study group, 142 (38.4%) babies with asphyxia were born. In infants born by mothers with active tuberculosis, birth asphyxia was observed 1.5 times as frequently as in those born by healthy mothers. In the control group, only 11 (9.1%) children with mild asphyxia were born. Neonatal compilations were noted in 137 (37.1%) infants of the study group, moreover almost equally frequently in babies born by mothers with both active and inactive tuberculosis, they were in 12 (9.9%) babies in the control group. In the latter group, malformations were detected only in 2 (1.7%) newborn babies, in the study one, they were in 46 (12.4%) infants, the mothers of these 15 (32.6%) infants had received specific therapy for tuberculosis in early pregnancy.