Cisplatin-induced hyperglycemic hyperosmolar coma.

We present a case of severe hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar derangement after treatment with cisplatin in a patient without previous diabetes mellitus. Limited data are available on this adverse reaction, explaining why impaired glucose handling due to cisplatin is not generally recognised.

[An unusual cause of meningo-encephalitis: Japanese encephalitis].

Two women, 29 and 30 years of age, who had visited Indonesia and Thailand, respectively, during the summer, presented with diarrhoea, headache, fever and later neurological symptoms. The first patient had to be sedated because of restlessness and was admitted to the intensive-care unit for intravenous antimicrobial therapy; the second became comatose and received intravenous rehydration and antipyretics. No diagnosis was made during the acute phase ofthe illness, but later there was serological evidence of Japanese encephalitis.