Type IV renal tubular acidosis associated with Alport's syndrome.

A case of hereditary nephritis with mild reduction of renal function associated with renal tubular acidosis type IV is described. The patient was admitted with life-threatening hyperkalaemia. To our knowledge, type IV renal tubular acidosis has not been reported previously in association with Alport's syndrome in an adult patient.

Non-invasive methods for detection of cardiomyopathy in the course of antineoplastic treatment.

In our group of patients suffering from cancer and treated by polychemotherapy and monitored in a complex non-invasive way we obtained data as follows: A normal physical, sensoric and biochemical cardiac finding prior to treatment has been observed in 47 patients out of 68 (69.1%). A pathological cardiac finding prior to treatment has been found in 18 patients out of 68 (26.