[Interstitial pneumopathy in subjects treated with amiodarone]. / Pneumopathies interstitielles chez les sujets traités par l'amiodarone.

Five cases of interstitial fibrinogenic pneumopathy in addition to the 17 cases already published have considerably increased the suspicion that amiodarone might be responsible for this type of lung lesion. Moreover, it has been firmly established that 10 (56%) of 18 patients with fibrinogenic interstitial pneumopathy had taken the drug. Amiodarone therefore seems to play an important role in the genesis of iatrogenic pulmonary fibroses. These, however, are rare, even though they probably remain undiagnosed in a substantial number of cases.

[Saccular aneurysm of the superior vena cava]. / Anévrisme sacciforme de la veine cave supérieure.

The authors report a case of a saccular aneurysm of the superior vena cava in a 38 year old female. The diagnosis could only be made at thoracotomy because of the additional difficulty posed by a complete thrombosis of the aneurysmal pocket, which produced a particularly deceptive CT image. This type of lesion is exceptionally rare as a cause of a mediastinal "tumour" since only 24 cases of congenital aneurysm of the superior vena cava have been reported, of which only 4 were of the saccular type.