Type I glycogenosis with renal tubular dysfunction (presentation of two cases).

Two patients with hepatic glycogenosis associated with Fanconi syndrome are presented. Both patients were treated with a neutral phosphorus solution, an oral alkaline solution, cholecalciferol and uncooked cornstarch. The proximal renal tubular functions were corrected in the patient who used cornstarch properly, which may indicate a causal relationship between Fanconi syndrome and glycogenosis.

Nifedipine in the treatment of acrodynia.

A case of acrodynia in an eight-and-a-half-year-old girl is presented whose symptoms--profuse perspiration, swelling, desquamation, pain, itching of the extremities, pinkish color of the nose and cheeks and hypertension--responded sharply to nifedipine therapy.