[Primary biliary cirrhosis].

Chronic non-suppurative destructive cholangitis, the so-called primary biliary cirrhosis, is characterised by changes, which occur in intrahepatic bile ducts in early stages and in hepatic parenchyma as the disease progresses. The disease gradually evolves into the full-blown picture of biliary cirrhosis. Primary biliary cirrhosis predominantly affects women between 35 and 60 years of age in all social classes and in all races.

[The Churg-Strauss syndrome].

Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is medium blood vessels vasculitis with predilection for lungs in patients with bronchial asthma, chronic eosinophilic pneumonia and positive ANCA in the sera in 55-67%. This is a case report of a 60 years old female patient with bronchial asthma, peripherial pulmonary infiltrations, blood eosinophilia, xerophtalmia, tachycardia, chronic rhinosinustis, polyneuropathia and negative imunological tests: CIC (PEG), CRYO, ANA (IIF), RF (aglutination) and ANCA (IFF: pANCA and cANCA; ELISA: proteinase 3, lactoferrin, myeloperoxidase. elastase, cathepsin G).