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N T Henriksen

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Hereditary cholestasis combined with peripheral pulmonary stenosis and other anomalies.

A syndrome consisting of chronic intrahepatic cholestasis with retention of bile acids but with normalization of bile pigment excretion ahd blood lipids, peripheral pulmonary stenosis, vertebral anomalies and a characteristic facies is described in six patients, including a father and his daughter. An autosomal dominant mode of inheritance is suggested.

Abnormalities, Multiple

Lycoperdonosis.

Inhalation of large quantities of spores from the puffball (lycoperdon), which has been widely used in folk medicine, can cause a respiratory disease with symptoms of pneumonia and widespread densities in the lungs. The course is rather protracted, but the final outcome seems good. Steroids probably shorten the disease. A typical case is reported.

Basidiomycota