A Syndrome of Apparent Renal Failure.

Pseudo-azotemia is the syndrome of hypercreatininemia and hyperkaliemia without a change in glomerular filtration rate or structure of the kidney. A 57-year-old vulnerable woman with learning difficulties experienced an intraperitoneal bladder rupture in the absence of a pelvic fracture after a fall. It is suspected that the blunt force compression of a distended bladder situated above the bony protection of the pelvis resulted in delayed intraperitoneal bladder rupture.

[A propos of 210 emergency endoscopies in upper digestive hemorrhage].

The authors report their experience of 210 fiber endoscopies carried out as an emergency for upper digestive hemorrhage. They emphasize the necessity of early examination and only consider here examinations carried out within 12 hours from the start of the hemorrhage. In 91.