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A 48 year-old male patient from Turkey underwent laparotomy 13 years before admission to one unit because of persistent pain in the upper abdomen and fever. Subsequently, he was repeatedly admitted to surgical departments with recurrent upper abdominal pain and fever. The patient was admitted for medical investigation to our department with fever and left pleuritic pain. During this observation period he repeatedly had attacks of fever lasting for one day with leucocytosis. The diagnosis of familial Mediterranean fever was made. Therapy with colchicine (1.5 mg/day) led to complete remission, maintained over the follow-up period of 2 years to date.

The case is reported of a 24-year old male patient, who was infected with Plasmodium falciparum during prolonged touch-down at Maputo and Dar-es-Salaam on returning from Lesotho (South Africa), a non-endemic areas. Severe haemolysis, anaemia, myocardiopathy, renal insufficiency, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and mild encephalopathy occurred. The patient's condition was very serious, but he responded rapidly to chloroquine, heparin, fibrinogen and other intensive medication and was soon discharged, fully cured.

A report is presented of Amanita phalloides poisoning in a family of 3 members admitted with acute gastrointestinal symptoms after eating a meal of various self-picked mushrooms. A latent period of 11 hours preceded the onset of symptoms, a typical feature of this form of poisoning. There was an enormous increase in liver-specific enzymes in two of the cases. The clinical picture was markedly mitigated by the early initiation of silybin therapy, in combination with penicillin and cortisone. The patients made a rapid symptomatic recovery and the liver parameters were sufficiently improved by the 12th day so that the patients could be discharged.