Chronic active hepatitis and pregnancy: a report of two cases in adolescence.

The course and outcome of pregnancy in two adolescents with chronic active hepatitis is described. Pregnancy was uneventful in both patients apart from mild biochemical deterioration in one patient. Both infants are entirely normal.

Cystic fibrosis diagnosed in a black adolescent with long-standing, unstable diabetes mellitus.

A case is reported of a black youth whose marked diabetic lability was stabilized subsequent to establishing the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and treatment of the pancreatic exocrine deficiency. The patient had no evidence of pulmonary involvement secondary to cystic fibrosis, but had a partial immunoglobulin A deficiency. A possible common etiology for diabetes mellitus and cystic fibrosis is discussed.