[Hypersensitivity pneumonitis in budgerigar fanciers. A seldom recognised disease?].

A hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) can be easily recognized either in acute manifestations, as in farmer lung syndrome, and in subacute, as bird fancier's lung; the following case shows an insidious HP occurred to a 44 year old, non smoker woman, fancier--during the winter--of 8 budgerigars kept in the kitchen. The authors suppose HP is underestimated, considering Italy's likely high number of bird fanciers, versus only 260 general cases of HP that have been reported every year in Italy (1999-2002).

[Hematoma of the rectus muscle of abdomen in a patient treated with nadroparin].

The case of large rectus abdominis hematoma of a patient affected by chronic obstructive polmunary disease, complicated by respiratory insufficiency, treated with low molecolar weight heparin (LMWH) is described; a spontaneous rectus hematoma is an uncommon condition that is to be considered in patient treated with LMWH at prophylactic dose, even in absence of other predisposing conditions, in the case of acute abdominal pain with evidence of abdominal mass and anemic syndrome.