[Spontaneous splenic and renal rupture in polyarteritis nodosa].

Classic polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a rare necrotising vasculitis and can result in intrarenal or perirenal bleeding because of aneurysm formation. This report describes the case of a patient with severe manifestation of PAN who developed a subcapsular hematoma from a spontaneously ruptured aneurysm in the spleen and a retroperitoneal hematoma from a renal cortex aneurysm. For the first time angiographic controls have been documented over years in this disease.

[Panarteritis nodosa with kidney and spleen rupture: diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities].

Classic polyarteritis nodosa is a necrotizing vasculitis affecting medium- and small-sized arteries. Renal involvement from aneurysm formation is common and can result in perirenal or intrarenal bleeding. The gold standard of diagnostic procedures is the arteriography.

[Pharmacokinetics of cisplatin in long-term hemodialysis treatment].

A 66-year-old woman with ovarian cancer which had metastasized was receiving chemotherapy with cisplatin and cyclophosphamide while undergoing haemodialysis for chronic renal failure. Cisplatin concentration in plasma was measured by flameless atomic absorption spectroscopy. After infusion of 40 mg cisplatin/m2 body-surface peak levels of 2.