[Apropos of a case of lesional pulmonary edema advancing to fibrosis with cartilage metaplasia]. / A propos d'un cas d'oedème pulmonaire lésionnel ayant évolué vers la fibrose avec métaplasie cartilagineuse.

The non-hemodynamic pulmonary oedema by increase alveolo-capillary permeability or Adult Respiratory distress Syndrome (ARDS), has many causes and determine an acute insufficiency respiratory who needed mechanic ventilation. It can above all progressing to interstitial fibrosis after deadly. The writer present lesional pulmonary oedema case which evolved to fibrosis in a 17 old patient. This patient has been operated for duodenal ulcer with bi-vagotomy and antrectomy and presented a post operatory shock. The particularity of this observation is The fibrosis evolution to an cartilaginous metaplasia. The lesional pulmonary oedema has usually serious prognosis because the mortality is from 50 to 80% in the literature review.

[Endosalpingosis: apropos of a case of colonic localization]. / L'endosalpingiose: à propos d'un cas à localisation colique.

The endosalpingosis is a benign affection which is in the most often asymptomatic. It means the presence of tubal mucosa in ectopic location; often in the tubal wall; the pelvic peritoneal and adjacent lymph node. We present here a colic endosalpingosis case with intestinal occlusion. We review in this purpose the literature, and discuss the etiopathogenicity. It shows that a previously tubal affection can have a great part in the birth of this pathology.

[Usefulness of combined captopril-labetalol treatment in resistant hypertension (author's transl)]. / Intérêt de l'association captopril et labétalol dans le traitement de l'hypertension réfractaire.

Fifteen patients with severe or malignant resistant arterial hypertension were treated by simultaneous administration of captopril and labetalol. Seven patients (group A) were given captopril alone and 8 patients (group B) labetalol alone without noticeable results. However, when the two drugs were given jointly a significant fall in mean arterial pressure from 165 +/- 19.8 (+/- 1 S.D.) to 102.4 +/- 15.1 mmHg (p less than 0.001) in group A patients and from 162.7 +/- 20 to 117 +/- 21.4 mmHg (p less than 0.05) in group B patients was observed. There were no significant changes in heart rate, a few side-effects were recorded. The captopril-labetalol combination may be considered as a useful alternative treatment of resistant arterial hypertension.