Letter: Complications of carbenoxolone therapy.

tion of emetine, especially in view of its known myocardial toxicity.Having thus dismissed emetine as a potential treatment for bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, we would confirm the views expressed in your article that amphotericin B is currently the most effective treatment available.Similarly, 5-fluorocytosine is effective against sensitive yeasts (provided they remain so), but we would like to point out that while clotrimazole does cause gastro- intestinal side effects, it has also been shown to have no detectable effect against bronchopulmonary aspergillosis using clinical and mycological criteria.2-Weare, etc.,