[Large liver cyst with compression of the inferior vena cava causing massive deep vein thrombosis].

A 69-year-old female was admitted to hospital on suspicion of left-sided deep vein thrombosis (DVT). DVT stretching to the distal part of the vena cava inferior (VCI) was confirmed on computed tomography and ultrasound which also revealed a large cyst with compression of VCI. The patient had no predisposition or risk factors to venous thromboembolic disease.

[24-hour esophageal pH in children].

Continuous 24-hour esophageal pH-monitoring was performed in 89 infants. Of 38 patients with respiratory symptoms 74% were found to have a pathological 24-h pH monitoring. The same number of pathological monitorings (71%) were found in 38 patients with clinical symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux.