[Successful therapy of persistent androgen-induced cholestasis with ursodeoxycholic acid].

Drug-induced cholestasis can rarely persist for a considerable time period even after withdrawal of the drug. We report the case of a 55-year-old man with progressive jaundice after oral therapy with 17-alpha-methyltestosterone. Under empiric therapy with ursodeoxycholic acid the condition resolved completely.

[Intrahepatic cholangitis with presumably immunologic bases].

An overview is given on three topics of chronic cholangitides, namely 1. chronic non destructive cholangitis, i.e.

[Capillary hemangioma of the heart: a case report].

In a 52-year-old man, within the left ventricle, a globular mass 1.5 cm in diameter was detected incidentally by echocardiography. Selective coronary angiography showed a mobile patch of hypervascularity suggesting the vascular nature of the cardiac mass.