SUMMARY Treatment with plasma exchange, steroids, immunosuppressant drugs and cytotoxic chemotherapy was effective in two cases of cancer-associated Eaton-Lambert myasthenic syndrome. The clinical improvement noted during treatment was accompanied by improvement in the electrophysiological abnormality; this was much more marked in abductor digiti minimi and trapezius than in extensor digitorum brevis.
A man aged 38 years developed chronic liver disease with characteristics of both haemochromatosis and active chronic hepatitis. Two of his relatives were found to have selective IgA deficiency. It is suggested that this case provides evidence that haemochromatosis may initiate active chronic hepatitis in a genetically susceptible subject.
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