Upper Limb Deep Venous Thrombosis Associated With Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters in Hospitalised Surgical Patients.

Introduction Surgical inpatients frequently require peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) for parenteral feeding and administration of medication. PICCs may cause upper limb deep venous thrombosis (ULDVT), which impacts patient morbidity. We investigated the risk and prevention of PICC-ULDVT in hospitalised surgical inpatients.

Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nosocomial transmission dynamics, a retrospective cohort study of two healthcare-associated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) clusters in a district hospital in England during March and April 2020.

Objective: To understand the transmission dynamics of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a hospital outbreak to inform infection control actions.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: General medical and elderly inpatient wards in a hospital in England.

Dexamethasone treatment may mitigate adverse effects of vitamin D deficiency in hospitalized Covid-19 patients.

Aims: We have previously demonstrated that vitamin D deficiency might be associated with worse outcomes in hospitalized Covid-19 patients. The aim of our study was to explore this relationship with dexamethasone therapy.

Methods: We prospectively studied two cohorts of hospitalized Covid-19 patients between March and April and between September and December 2020 (n = 192).

Pulmonary embolism in COVID-19: Clinical characteristics and cardiac implications.

Background: The thrombogenic potential of Covid-19 is increasingly recognised. We aim to assess the characteristics of COVID-19 patients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism (PE).

Methods: We conducted a single centre, retrospective observational cohort study of COVID-19 patients admitted between 1st March and 30th April 2020 subsequently diagnosed with PE following computed tomography pulmonary angiogram (CTPA).

Vitamin D status and outcomes for hospitalised older patients with COVID-19.

Purpose: Older adults are more likely to be vitamin D deficient. The aim of the study was to determine whether these patients have worse outcomes with COVID-19.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study between 1 March and 30 April 2020 to assess the importance of vitamin D deficiency in older patients with COVID-19.

[Pulpotomy of deciduous teeth].

Rather easy to perform, pulpotomy of the deciduous teeth is the most frequent endodontic treatment performed on children, but also the most controversial. Based on the amputation of the pulp chamber and the conservation of the inflammation-free root canals, the clinical results can be good, depending on the materials used. In this, calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2) as well as zinc-oxide-eugenol (ZOE) have been proven very inflammatory whereas Formocresol (FC) remains the reference even if its clinical toxicity is still reported in literature on a very controversial way.

Bassini's hernial repair and adductor longus tenotomy in the treatment of chronic groin pain in athletes.

A prospective study was initiated to evaluate the surgical treatment of chronic groin pain resistant to conservative treatment. Forty-one patients were treated using Bassini's hernial repair and percutaneous adductor longus tenotomy between 1984 and 1998. All patients were males aged 17 to 34 years and were mainly soccer players.

Changing epidemiological and clinical aspects of imported malaria in Belgium.

Background: In the early nineties the increase of imported malaria in some European countries was temporarily halted, but it resumed in 1994. More Africans, more European travelers, and fewer long-term residents were counted amongst patients. A shift towards more subacute disease has been noted.

Choledochocele: diagnosis by magnetic resonance imaging.

The value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is demonstrated in a case of a 22-year-old female with a small choledochocele clinically presenting with acute cholecystitis and pancreatitis. Previous abdominal sonography and computed tomography were not diagnostic. MRI and MRCP showed a cystic dilatation of the distal common bile duct, intramurally located in the second portion of the duodenum and protruding into the duodenal lumen.

The results of ulnar shortening for ulnar impaction syndrome.

From the Centre tfr Hand Twenty-three wrists in 22 patients (mean age, 37 years) with ulnar impaction syndrome were treated by ulnar shortening. The mean ulnar shortening was 2 mm (range, 1-4 mm). At a mean follow-up time of 33 months, 17 patients had obtained good subjective pain relief and 16 were shown to have a good overall outcome using the Wrightington Hospital Wrist Function Evaluation.

Early results of a modified Brunelli procedure for scapholunate instability.

Twenty-two patients with a diagnosis of scapholunate instability underwent a modified Brunelli procedure. The overall results of this short follow-up study showed that a majority of patients (17 out of 22) had relief of pain. Grip strength recovered well.

Human meniscal proteoglycan metabolism in long-term tissue culture.

For the purpose of human meniscal allografting, menisci have been maintained viable in in vitro culture. The influence of long-term tissue culture on the extracellular matrix metabolism of the meniscus has been studied. Fetal calf serum (FCS) was used as a supplement for the growth factors necessary to maintain optimal meniscal cell metabolism.

Rhodococcus equi infection in 3 AIDS patients.

Three cases of AIDS complicated by Rhodococcus equi infection are reported. At least one of the patients acquired his Rhodococcus infection in Africa. Despite the fact that the R.

Comparison of human immunodeficiency virus biological phenotypes isolated from cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood.

Quantitative human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cultures were carried out on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), and plasma from patients with HIV in order to compare the infectious HIV load. The HIV strains isolated were studied for syncytium-inducing (SI) capacity, using the MT-2 cell line, in order to compare the HIV strain phenotype of blood and CSF isolates. Forty-two patients with HIV-1 infection were enrolled in the study, 33 of whom had neurological symptoms and 9 of whom were without neurological symptoms.