La réflexion s’appuie sur une série d’enquêtes par entretiens menées en France, en Italie et au Japon concernant les émotions politiques ressenties par les élus locaux avant d’exercer le pouvoir. Dans la première partie, deux résultats sont détaillés. Le premier est la récurrence de souvenirs s’apparentant à des sanglots enfouis. Il s’agit d’émotio...
The Firehawk stent (Shanghai MicroPort Medical Group, Shanghai, China), a novel biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting coronary stent has been evaluated in the randomized TARGET I trial in which low-risk patients were enrolled with strict eligibility criteria. Recently, the TARGET All Comers study has shown similar results of the Firehawk compared...
Published in Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
The 4th version of the guide to the Register for European Specialists in Laboratory Medicine (EuSpLM) established by the European Communities Confederation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine describes the transfer of the register to the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) in 2016, the extension in 201...
Published in British journal of sports medicine
Although premature ventricular beats (PVBs) in young people and athletes are usually benign, they may rarely mark underlying heart disease and risk of sudden cardiac death during sport. This review addresses the prevalence, clinical meaning and diagnostic/prognostic assessment of PVBs in the athlete. The article focuses on the characteristics of PV...
Published in Journal of telemedicine and telecare
In a telestroke network, patients at a referring hospital (RH) with large-vessel occlusion (LVO) are transferred to a comprehensive stroke centre (CSC) for endovascular thrombectomy (EVT). However, a significant number of patients do not ultimately undergo thrombectomy after CSC arrival. Within a 17-hospital telestroke network, we retrospectively a...
Published in Eurosurveillance
Introduction Guidelines for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provide criteria to identify individuals at higher risk of HIV infection. We compared the ability to predict HIV seroconversion of four guidelines: the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Public Health Service and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), the Euro...
Published in Neuro-oncology
Building on an initiative to enhance clinical trial participation involving the Society for Neuro-Oncology, the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology Working Group, patient advocacy groups, clinical trial cooperative groups, and other partners, we evaluate the impact of eligibility criteria and trial conduct on neuro-oncology clinical trial partici...
Published in Crohn's & colitis 360
There are currently several recruitment challenges in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which prolong the drug approval process and affect the generalizability of study results. The purpose of this study is to characterize individuals who participate in IBD RCTs and identify factors that could influence futur...
Published in Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes
To investigate whether a significant difference exists between the calcification of the common iliac arteries (CIAs) and the external iliac arteries (EIAs) and test for associations between clinical factors and the distribution of calcification. A retrospective review of renal transplant candidates who underwent a routine preoperative unenhanced co...
AIMS:Sodium-glucose co-transporter (SGLT)-2 inhibitors have been shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and heart failure (HF) hospitalization in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and high cardiovascular risk in two large clinical outcome trials: empagliflozin in EMPA-REG OUTCOME and canagliflozin in CANVAS. The scope of eligibi...
