[Sepsis in children according to Perm autopsy data].

An analysis of pediatric autopsy material for 15 years (1963--1978) revealed an increase in the percentage of sepsis in the general structure of child mortality from 10.0% to 23.3%. The primary focus is most frequently localized in the cord arteries. In infants of the first 3 months of age septicemia, frequently accompanied by ulcerative enterocolitis is more prevalent. Many infants have unfavourable backgrounds such as fetopathy, congenital malformations, birth traumas. Sepsis should be differentiated from congenital cytomegaly, adrenogenital syndrome, mucoviscidosis, intestinal infections with long duration, and sepsis with the hemolytic syndrom from hemolytic disease of neonates.