[Tunnel syndromes and blood glucose anomalies].

The fasting blood glucose was studied in 406 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. We found 3.3% patients with diabetes mellitus and 15% with abnormal blood glucose levels.

[Bullosis in diabetics. Apropos of a new case].

Idiopathic bullae occurring in diabetics constitute an uncommon condition which may reveal the diabetes, announce its decompensation or represent a mere epiphenomenon. The authors report the case of a woman who experienced two episodes of idiopathic bullae: the first one disclosed the diabetes, the second one heralded its decompensation. Both episodes were preceded by painful paraesthesia.

Morphometric study of human hepatic cell modifications induced by fenofibrate.

We have studied liver biopsies obtained in 12 hyperlipoproteinemic (HLP) patients (type II, 6; type IV, 6) treated with diet and fenofibrate, and in 15 patients (type II, 11; type IV, 4) receiving diet only. Electron microscopy of liver biopsies and the morphometric analysis according to the method of Weibel and Rohr showed mitrochondrial changes in patients treated with fenofibrate, these changes depending on the type of hyperlipoproteinemia. In type II HLP, we found a decreased volume of normal mitochondria (fenofibrate, 125.

[The flow-volume curve. Expression of emptying as a function of venous distensibility].

Mercury strain gauge venous occlusion plethysmography is a non invasive exploration of the lower limb venous hemodynamic. Classically, venous distensibility (delta V/V %) is expressed in terms of time during venous inflow (venous occlusion) and venous outflow (after cuff deflation). The authors proposed to express the total flow Q of the limb (obtained by a differentiator of the electric signal of the strain gauge) in terms of the venous distensibility (delta V/V %) whatever recording a top each second.