"Of coronary arteries and men": the fight of a dialysis patient against his coronary arteries.

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in dialysis patients is associated with high mortality rate. Large randomized controlled trials documenting the benefits of revascularization in the general population have excluded chronic dialysis patients. Few observational data suggest that revascularization may provide a survival benefit compared with medical treatment alone also in these patients.

A very unusual case of hypokalaemia.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is diagnosed in the first years of life. There are only two reports in the literature of adult patients with unusual presentation of newly diagnosed CF. We report here an adult patient apparently in a good health, who presented with serious hypokalaemia and metabolic alkalosis as the only abnormalities, who, through a fortuitous event, was tested by additional means for seemingly unrelated conditions that led to evidence of signs typical of CF, which was then confirmed by genetic analyses.