[Verapamil intoxication: beware of the delayed effect].

Intoxication with calcium channel inhibitory drugs is rare but mortality rates reach 10 %. We report the case of a 5-year-old girl who had ingested five 240-mg tablets of extended-release verapamil (VLP) and a tablet of bromazepam. Thirty hours after the ingestion she had a vasoplegic shock, heart conduction disorders, and metabolic complications.

[Hemolytic and uremic syndrome and maternal-fetal Escherichia coli K1 infection].

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is primarily a disease of infancy and early childhood. In its classic form, it is preceded by a prodrome of Escherichia coli-mediated bloody mucoid diarrhea. Typical HUS is commonly related to an infection by shiga-toxin producing E.

[A furoncular ankle cellulitis in a teenager with a difference: Dermatobia hominis].

We report a case of botfly myiasis presenting as an ankle cellulitis in a teenager returning from Guyana. Main clinical features and therapeutic approaches are described.