Protective effects of extract against scopolamine-induced behavioral disturbances and brain oxidative stress in rats.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Alzheimer's disease (AD) as the most common type of dementia, is affecting the life of many senior individuals around the world. Vinca Waldst. & Kit.

[Cyclophosphamide-induced interstitial pneumopathy. Course data of bronchoalveolar lavage apropos of a case and review of the literature].

A patient treated with cyclophosphamide for breast cancer developed functional and clinicoradiological signs of sub-acute diffuse interstitial pneumopathy. Bronchoalveolar lavage revealed lymphocyte alveolitis. Differential diagnoses were excluded and the course was favorable after cyclophosphamide withdrawal.

[Uncommon complication of the use of implantable chambers in oncology].

The catheter of an implantable chamber migrated into the pulmonary infundibulum in a patient given chemotherapy for bronchogenic cancer. Current management of such cases is to remove the catheter under pulmonary angiography control using a basket system.