Comment on "Chemical and Toxicological Investigations of a Previously Unknown Poisonous European Mushroom Tricholoma terreum".

Recent findings casting doubts over the edibility of the European mushroom Tricholoma terreum are questioned on the basis of mycological and mycotoxicological considerations. Accordingly, T. terreum should remain listed among edible mushroom species.

[A rare case of acute renal failure related to amanita proxima ingestion].

Objective: The first cases of acute renal tubulopathy related to Amanita proxima poisoning were described in 1994; the mushroom contains a toxin responsible for the allenic-norleucine syndrome, characterised by a kidney damage that occur earlier than in Cortinarius orellanus poisoning and generally improve with complete resolution within ten days.

Case Report: A 45 years old woman was admitted to the hospital because of nausea, vomiting, and heartburn started the day before. Symptoms occurred eight hours after eating a single big wild mushroom; three friends who had the same meal were all asymptomatic.

Carbon monoxide poisoning: potentially preventable cases.

Unlabelled: The objective of the study was to describe epidemiological and clinical data regarding acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in an urban area of North Italy. 95 consecutive adult patients admitted to Milan and Turin Poisons Control Centres (PCC) for CO poisoning between October 1993 and March 1995 were enrolled into the study. Epidemiological and medical parameters were recorded in a standardised collection data sheet, which included age, sex, circumstances of poisoning, severity grading (0-3), blood HbCO level upon admission.

[The reappearance of gastrointestinal tuberculosis in general surgery].

Gastro-intestinal tuberculosis (TB) continues to give rise to diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Its increasing incidence and multiple and non-specificity of symptoms and signs require special attention to establish a prompt diagnosis and not to delay treatment. The authors describe on case of colonic TB presenting with multiple episodes of subocclusion suggesting a stenosing neoplasm of the caecum.

The synergistic anti-proliferative effect of gamma-interferon and human lymphotoxin.

Highly purified preparations of rHuIFN-gamma and HLT synergistically inhibit the in vitro proliferation of WI38VA13 cells, a SV40 virus-transformed derivative of the human cell line W138. The growth of nontumorigenic WI38 cells, established from normal diploid embryonic lung tissue, was not inhibited under identical incubation conditions; rMuIFN-gamma and HLT have the same in vitro effects on the murine melanoma B16. Thus, the combination of rMuIFN-gamma and HLT synergistically inhibits the growth of B16 cells, although incubation with either lymphokine alone has no significant anti-proliferative effect.