[Reye's syndrome: reports of 7 cases in the period 1982-1987].

Reye's syndrome is an acute non-inflammatory encephalopathy with fatty degeneration of inner organs. The disease seems to be the metabolic response to a generalized mitochondrial insult. From 1982 to 1987, we studied 7 patients, age range being 2 months to 12 years, affected by R.