TWO AUTOPSY CASES OF REYE'S SYNDROME |
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| Authors: | Makoto MOTOI Shoji KOBAYASHI Katsuo OGAWA Motomasa MURAKAMI Koji AOYAMA Tadao YODA |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Pathology, Okayama University Medical School;*Department of Clinical Pathology;**Department of Pediatrics Okayama National Hospital;Department of Pediatrics Okayama Bed Cross Hospital |
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| Abstract: | Autopsies were carried out on a ten-month old male and another 7-year-old boy who died within a few days after showing slight upper respiratory infection as a prodromal symptom, followed by vomiting, disturbances of consciousness and high fever. Both of these cases showed high transaminase levels, accompanied by low blood sugar, and patho-anatomically, they had marked fatty degeneration of the liver and kidneys, and remarkable edema of the brain. The lung showed a slight inflammation of the interstitiums. Only mild inflammation was found in the intestines.
These clinical and pathological findings coincide with the conception of Reye's syndrome, and some discussions have been made about the differentiation between Reye's syndrome and those closely resembling this syndrome. ACTA PATH. JAP. 20: 251–259, 1970. |
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