[Diagnosis with helical CT and echocardiography of patients with suspected chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension].

Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) is a serious disease with a very high mortality after variable periods of time. Early diagnosis of CTEPH is critical because thromboendarterectomy can improve survival, hemodimamics and functional capacity. Based on our experience we have performed a review of diagnostic techniques.

[Kawasaki's syndrome in the adult and bilateral sacroiliitis].

We present the case of a 23 year old patient with Kawasaki syndrome which resolved without sequelae after salicylate treatment. An peculiar finding was that of typical symptoms and signs of bilateral sacroiliitis demonstrated by symmetrically increased articular uptake of technetium 99 diphosphonate. This sacroiliitis disappeared completely after resolution of the syndrome.