[Advanced heart failure : what are the prospects for patients ?].

Heart failure (HF) is a major public health problem in our country and in most developed countries. Despite advances in the diagnosis and management of this condition and numerous therapeutic innovations, many patients with chronic HF progress inexorably to advanced HF, characterized by persistent symptoms despite maximal treatment. The prognosis for this condition is poor.

[Febrile cervicalgia revealing infectious epiduritis : a case report].

Infectious epiduritis and epidural abscesses are relatively rare pathologies but with important neurological consequences. A low incidence associated with an insidious clinical presentation leads to frequent delays in diagnosis, which worsen the prognosis of patients with the development of neurological deficits. While the evaluation of risk factors, a careful clinical examination and biological tests can guide to the diagnosis, the key examination remains magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) while lumbar puncture remains contraindicated.