[Effect of stressful life events on clinical development of temporal arteritis and/or polymyalgia rheumatica].

Objectives: To test the hypothesis of an epidemiological relationship between stressful events and the date of emergence of temporal arteritis and/or polymyalgia rheumatica.

Methods: Thirteen patients identified with anatomo-clinical criteria and whose mental state permitted prolonged questioning where included in the survey. A list of 65 events, covering the 2-year period preceding the onset of temporal arteritis and/or polymyalgia rheumatica, was used.

[Early and lasting remission of protein-losing enteropathy with corticosteroids].

Objective: To emphasize the possibility of obtaining good quality and lasting remission of a severe idiopathic protein-loosing enteropathy with corticosteroid therapy.

Observation: A 30 year-old woman was hospitalized for edema of the lower limbs related to hypoalbuminemia due to a protein-loosing enteropathy, demonstrated by measurement of alpha-1 antitrypsin clearance. Diagnosis of lupus was evoked but not confirmed.