[Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis. Innovative therapy with tafamidis.].

Cardiac amyloidosis is a rare and severe disease with worse prognosis than classic cardiac insufficiency. Transthyretin amyloïdosis is an underdiagnosed cause of amyloidosis. Technetium scintigraphy allows to confirm diagnosis of transthyretin amyloidosis with great specificity.

[Acute pancreatitis induced by metastases from small cell pulmonary cancer].

Although metastatic lesions associated with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) are rare in the pancreas, metastatic-induced acute pancreatitis from the same cancer is even more so. We discuss the clinical case of a 67-year-old patient with SCLC, diagnosed for 21 months and stable for 3 months, presenting in the emergency department with transfixing epigastric pain. The radiological study reveals two large masses in the pancreas as well as multiple peripancreatic adenopathies.

A case of a borderline adrenal oncocytoma in a 62-year old female.

Introduction: Adrenal oncocytomas are a rare pathology and only about 160 cases have been reported in the literature.

Case Description: We describe the case of a 62-year old female with an incidentaloma found in the right adrenal gland on a CT scan. Endocrine testing showed a non-secreting lesion.

Skin lesions in European hibernating bats associated with Geomyces destructans, the etiologic agent of white-nose syndrome.

White-nose syndrome (WNS) has claimed the lives of millions of hibernating insectivorous bats in North America. Its etiologic agent, the psychrophilic fungus Geomyces destructans, causes skin lesions that are the hallmark of the disease. The fungal infection is characterized by a white powdery growth on muzzle, ears and wing membranes.