[Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy: a specific entity].

Cirrhosis is a frequent and severe condition, which is the late stage of numerous chronic liver diseases. It is associated with major hemodynamic alterations characteristic of hyperdynamic circulation and with a series of structural, functional, electrophysiological and biological heart abnormalities termed cirrhotic cardiomyopathy. The pathogenesis of this syndrome is multifactorial.

[Acute hepatic failure as the presenting manifestation of a metastatic lung carcinoma to liver].

Liver failure as a result of neoplasia is a rare event before the terminal stage of the illness. We report a 66-year-old man who presented with clinical features of acute liver failure as the initial manifestation of a small-cell lung carcinoma. Liver was enlarged without ascitis.

[Post-amoxicilline neutropenic rectitis in an immunocompetent patient: a case report].

We report a 38-year-old immunocompetent patient who presented with a neutropenic rectitis after a treatment by amoxicillin for nasopharyngitis. Neutropenic colitis is a digestive wall inflammation, preferentially localized in the ileo-caecal area and the right colon, which leads to necrosis and sepsis, and usually occurs in neutropenic patients treated by chemotherapy with an incidence of 6%. It is a serious and often lethal disease.