[Contents of bioelements in blood of newborn infants with a history of chronic intrauterine hypoxia].

Emission analysis with the use of induced plasma was employed to measure the content of 9 bioelements (potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, copper, zinc and selenium) in the blood serum of 82 neonates with a history of chronic intrauterine hypoxia and in 19 normal children at birth and in the course of early adaptation. It has been shown that the content of bioelements in the blood of normal neonates was marked by a number of characteristic features reflecting to a considerable degree the processes of metabolic adaptation of the children to the intrauterine life. The neonates with a history of hypoxia demonstrated the unbalance of bioelements most pronounced by day 3 of life. The treatment instituted did not make the content of bioelements in the neonates' blood return to normal.