[A neurological disorder during pregnancy].
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
[Helicobacter pylori: When to look for an infection and treat it in adults?]
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Helicobacter pylori infection is acquired during childhood mainly within the family. It causes active chronic gastritis associated with the development of many digestive and extra digestive diseases. Its expression results from interactions between the bacteria, the host and environmental factors modulating the evolution of gastritis and acid secre...
[A plantar pain].
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
[Immune thrombocytopenia: From pathogenesis to treatment].
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare autoimmune disease due to an immune peripheral destruction of platelets and an inappropriate platelet production. The pathogenesis of ITP is now better understood: it involves a humoral immune response which dependents on the stimulation of B cells by specific T cells called T follicular helper cells, leading...
[Acute rachialgia].
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Are script concordance tests suitable for the assessment of undergraduate students? A multicenter comparative study.
...Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Script concordance tests (SCTs) have been developed to assess clinical reasoning in uncertain situations. Their reliability for the evaluation of undergraduate medical students has not been evaluated. Twenty internal medicine SCT cases were implemented in undergraduate students of two programs. The results obtained on the SCTs were compared to thos...
[COVID-19: Still a place for tocilizumab?]
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
[Gamma heavy chain disease associated with aggressive B lymphoma in the context of myelodysplastic syndrome].
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Heavy chain disease is a rare entity characterized by the production of incomplete immunoglobulin heavy chain without associated light chain. It is a B-cell lymphoproliferation, categorized according to the immunoglobulin involved. It is often associated with lymphomas but also with autoimmune diseases. We report the case of a 70-year-old patient w...
[Neurological complications of JC virus infection: A review].
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Although human polyomavirus JC (JCV) seroprevalence in the general population is high, its neurological complications are rare and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a lethal central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating disease, is the most well-known. After an usually asymptomatic primary infection during late childhood, a latent JCV ...
[Ocular manifestations of viral diseases].
Published in La Revue de medecine interne
Viral infections may involve all ocular tissues and may have short and long-term sight-threatening consequences. Among them, ocular infections caused by herpesviruses are the most frequent. HSV-1 keratitis and kerato-uveitis affect approximately are the leading cause of infectious blindness in the Western world, mainly because of corneal opacificat...
