Published in Annals of Intensive Care
BackgroundSystemic rheumatic diseases (SRDs) are a group of inflammatory disorders that can require intensive care unit (ICU) admission because of multiorgan involvement with end-organ failure(s). Critically ill SRD patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) were studied to gain insight into their characteristics and outcomes.Met...
Published in BMC Family Practice
BackgroundHome blood-pressure measurement (HBPM) is recommended for the diagnosis of hypertension and monitoring of patients with hypertension. Since 2013, the French National Health Insurance Body (FNHIB) has promoted HBPM to general practitioners (GPs). The objective of the study was to evaluate the practice of HBPM by French GPs to diagnose and ...
Long-term studies have demonstrated a slight increased risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) for living kidney donors (LKD). In France, living kidney donation doubled within the past 10 years. We investigated the change in characteristics of LKD between 2007 and 2017 and the adequacy of follow-up. Data were obtained from the national registry for...
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Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) constitute disturbances of gastrointestinal tract that cause irreversible changes in the structure and function of tissues. Ulcerative colitis (UC), the most frequent IBD in the population, is characterized by prominent inflammation of the human colon. Functional foods containing probiotic bacteria have been studi...
Actin plays roles in many important cellular processes, including cell motility, organelle movement, and cell signaling. The discovery of transmembrane actin-binding proteins at the outer nuclear membrane (ONM) raises the exciting possibility that actin can play a role in direct force transmission to the nucleus and the genome at its interior. Acti...
"Acral FibroChondroMyxoid tumor" (AFCMT) is a recently described distinctive subtype of acral soft tissue tumor that typically arises on the fingers and toes. We herein present the unreported imaging features of AFCMT in a 44-year-old woman. This otherwise healthy patient was referred for a painful, slow-growing, soft tissue mass in the middle fing...
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Within the framework of the Carcinologic Speech Severity Index (C2SI) INCa Project, we collected a large database of French speech recordings aiming at validating Disorder Severity Indexes. Such a database will be useful for measuring the impact of oral and pharyngeal cavity cancer on speech production. It will permit to assess patients’ quality of...
To assess psychosocial risk factors for increased emergency hospital utilization by sickle cell patients. Introduction: Emergency hospital utilization by sickle cell disease patients is high but heterogeneous between patients and in a given patient over time. Psychosocial factors affect emergency hospital utilization and are a possible target to im...
