[Incidents of blood donation]. / Les incidents du prélèvement.

In France, more than two million blood donations are needed for transfusion each year. The rules and requirements for blood donors selection are strict and aim to protect the donors' health as well as the patients'security. However, the review of the literature shows that adverse effects of blood withdrawal occur quite frequently. They can be classified in immediate or delayed events, or local (hematoma, nerve injury, arterial puncture injury, allergy, veinitis, thrombosis) and general reactions (vasovagal reaction, citrate toxicity, cardiovascular failure, allergy to ethylene oxide, adverse effects of drugs used for some types of donation). This article reviews the principal adverse events described in the literature and concludes with the necessity to set up hemovigilance for donors, as defined in directive 2002/98/EC of the European parliament and of the council.

[Intraperitoneal rupture of an aseptic necrotizing fibroma in pathological pregnancy. Apropos of a case]. / Rupture intrapéritonéale d'un fibrome en nécrobiose aseptique sur grossesse pathologique. A propos d'une observation.

The authors report a rare case of complication of aseptic necrosis of a fibroma. In early pregnancy: intraperitoneal rupture resulting in an obstructive syndrome secondary agglutination of small bowel loops. They attempt to explain the mechanism of this complication and stress the fact that surgical treatment is exceptional in complications of necrosis, and a medical treatment is usually sufficient, in most cases.

[A new case of gastric and peritoneal anisakiasis]. / Un nouveau cas d'anisakiase gastrique et péritonéale.

A further case of anisakiasis is reported, its originality residing in the discovery of two localizations of the affection, gastric and then peritoneal, at four months' interval. This digestive disease is provoked by the larvae of nematodes that are parasites of marine mammals and for which human contamination is due to ingestion of raw or incompletely smoked fish.

[Pyonephrosis complicated by a pyogenic psoas abscess. Apropos of a case]. / Pyonéphrose compliquée d'abcès du psoas à pyogènes. A propos d'un cas.

Psoas abscess of pyogenic origin developed secondary to renal infection in a patient with coralliform lithiasis, a favorable outcome being obtained after nephrectomy and drainage of abscess. Clinical diagnosis is difficult but ultrasound and CT scan imaging provide useful data. Other causes of pyogenic abscess are discussed, the most frequent origin being digestive disease.