The patient was a 56-year-old male. He had a history of alcoholism since 1975 and diabetes mellitus since 1978. He was treated with insulin therapy. But the control of diabetes mellitus was very poor and he had six hypoglycemic comas attacks. He had diabetic triopathy but no symptoms of gait disturbance, dementia and incontinence. Brain computerized tomography and magneting resonance imaging revealed severe communicating hydrocephalus with mild brain atrophy.¹¹¹In-DPTA cisternography revealed retension of isotope in the ventricle after 48 hours. The pressure of cerebrospinal fluid was normal.
This case report is interesting as it suggests the relationship between normal pressure hydrocephalus and hypoglycemia.

An 78-year-old woman visited our hospital with the chief complaints of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. She was operated on for gastric ulcer when she was 56 years old and complained of abdominal discomfort after operation. One day she wished to take Confrey (Symphytum officinale), but she took digitalis leaves (Digitalis purpurea) by mistake. On admission she was drowsy and the systolic blood pressure was 60 mmHg on palpation. Electrocardiograms showed bradycardia, irregular AV-nodal rhythm and ST depressions and T wave inversions with the shortening of the QT interval. Serum levels were potassium, 6.4 mEq/1 ; BUN, 34.4 mg/di ; creatinine, 1.5 mg/di ; digoxin, 2.0 ng/ml (therapeutic level, up to 2.0 ng/ml); and digitoxin, 111ng/ml (therapeutic level, up to 25 ng/ml). Hemodynamic data showed HR, 49 beats/min ; CO, 2.81/min; CI, 2.31/min/m²; SV, 57 ml/beat and SI, 47 ml/beat/m² on administration of dopamine 7μg/kg/min. So VVI pacing was started at 70 bpm and CO increased to 3.6 1/min after pacing. But unfortunately she died of ventricular fibrillation. The digitalis leaves resemble the Confrey leaves and it is easy to mix up these two plants. Although this is a rare case, digitalis intoxication can be life-threatening. So we should prepared ourselves for the treatment of patients poisoned with digitalis and other poisonous herbs.

This report concerns a 62-year-old woman with Wegener's granulomatosis. She complained cough, macroscopic hematuria and oligulia. She had a consolidation without a cavity in the left upper lung field, massive proteinuria (2.5 g/day) and massive hematuria. The serum creatinine level was 2.5 mg/dl. The C-ANCA was positive. Renal biopsy revealed crescentic glomerulonephritis. She wa treated with prednisone and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. The lung shadow, proteinuria and hematuria disappeared in one month. The C-ANCA titer also decreased. The use of trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole which may eliminate an infection as a cause to promote Wegener's granulomatosis should be actively included in the conventional treatment.