Publications by authors named "A Mulliez"
Introduction: Surgical care in first-referral hospitals (FRHs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is poorly characterized. Inguinal hernia repair can act as a good tracer condition. This study aimed to evaluate the variation in hernia repair across different hospital types in LMICs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The study objectives were: 1) to detect early signs of low muscle function and assess sarcopenic obesity (SO) prevalence in patients with obesity; and 2) to introduce a new online diagnostic tool for scoring handgrip strength (HGS), adjusted for age and sex.
Methods: Patients from the OBESAR cohort (184 men and 499 women) were tested for body composition and functional testing (chair stand test or HGS based on the cutoffs from the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism [ESPEN]/European Association for the Study of Obesity [EASO] or adjusted HGS [adHGS] based on reference values), and SO prevalence was calculated accordingly.
Results: Among the 683 patients (mean [SD], age 42.
Background: Despite improvement in devices, in-stent restenosis remains a frequent and challenging complication of percutaneous coronary interventions.
Methods And Results: The RESTO (Morphological Parameters of In-Stent Restenosis Assessed and Identified by OCT [Optical Coherence Tomography]; study NCT04268875) was a prospective multicenter registry including patients presenting with coronary syndromes related to in-stent restenosis. All patients underwent preintervention OCT analysis, which led to analysis of in-stent restenosis phenotype, number of strut layers, and presence of stent underexpansion.
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- The study examined the rate of complications following non-mandatory hardware removal (HR) in patients who had fractures, involving a review of 1990 cases over a decade.
- Results indicated that 4.1% of patients experienced complications, with 1.56% being classified as major, including deep infections and impaired healing, particularly in knee and ankle locations.
- Smoking was identified as a significant risk factor for complications, emphasizing the need for thorough preoperative patient education and risk assessment before HR surgeries.
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- A study examined the cancer risk in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) compared to a matched sample from the general French population over a 10-year period, using national health data.
- Among the 140,649 PwMS, the incidence of cancer was found to be slightly higher (799 per 100,000 person-years) than that of the matched controls (736 per 100,000 person-years), indicating a small overall increased risk for PwMS.
- The risk for different cancer types varied, with higher risks for bladder, brain, and cervical cancers, while prostate, breast, and colorectal cancers showed a lower risk in PwMS.