Necrotizing bowel disease with candida peritonitis following severe neonatal hypothermia.

Peritonitis due to Candida albicans is rare in the newborn infant. Three low birthweight, extremely ill premature infants who were severely hypothermic at the time of admission developed perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. C.

Campylobacter pylori in Israel: prospective study of prevalence and epidemiology.

Antral biopsy samples were taken from 147 patients undergoing gastroscopy. Campylobacter pylori was cultivated from 100 of these patients. C.

Evolution of malignant lymphoma in agnogenic myeloid metaplasia.

Two young arab patients are described in whom malignant lymphoma developed within less than 1 year of the diagnosis of agnogenic myeloid metaplasia. Both patients showed a satisfactory response to combined chemotherapy. One of them died of hepatitis B at 10 months and the other is alive and in clinical remission 25 months after initial diagnosis.

Recurrence of oxalate deposition in a renal transplant during ciclosporin A therapy.

A 14.5-year-old boy with end-stage renal failure due to familial primary hyperoxaluria underwent cadaver donor renal transplantation. The graft function was stable for a period of 22 months, while he was on conventional immunosuppressive therapy (prednisolone and azathioprine) and additional oral pyridoxine, phosphorus, and magnesium supplementation.