Prevalence and determinant factors of depression and anxiety in people with chronic kidney disease: a Moroccan cross-sectional study.

Introduction: the chronic kidney disease (CKD), is associated with various psychiatric conditions and poorer quality of life. The main objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among CKD patients and to assess their determinant factors.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study in a Moroccan university hospital.

[Small bowel volvulus complicating common incomplete mesentery in an adult: a case report].

Emergency diagnosis of small bowel volvulus can be established in patients with acute intestinal obstruction, or even shock, or repeated abdominal pain often associated with motility disorders. This is a life-threatening complication of common incomplete mesentery, which is defined as an intestinal malrotation occurring very rarely in adults. Clinical symptoms are non-specific, hence the importance of knowing the radiological features, in particular scannographic features of this rare entity, thus enabling early therapeutic management.

[Lipoma of calm body revealed by a convulsive crisis: about a case].

The lipoma of the corpus callosum is a very rare benign congenital lesion, which can be isolated or associated with varying degrees of dysgenesis of the corpus callosum. It can be asymptomatic or revealed by nonspecific signs such as epileptic seizures, headache, neurological deficit or dementia. Sectional imaging makes diagnosis easily.

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Moroccan version of the incontinence quality of life questionnaire (I-QoL) in urinary incontinence patients.

Objective: Because of the importance and prevalence of incontinence in women, there is growing interest in the development and use of well-designed quality of life questionnaires. The objective of this study is to adapt and validate, the I-QoL, a quality of life questionnaire, in Moroccan dialect, and to assess its psychometric properties in people suffering from urinary incontinence STUDY DESIGN: One hundred patients (77 % female) with a symptom of urinary incontinence participated in the study and filled out the Moroccan version of the questionnaire. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α), the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and confirmatory factor analysis.

[MRI role in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: about a case].

Creutzfeldt-jakob disease (CJD) is a very rare and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system. It is characterized by mental deterioration leading to progressive dementia, pyramidal and extrapyramidal symptoms as well as myoclonus. Early diagnosis is essential to prevent human-to-human transmission.

[Diffuse interstitial lung disease revealing anti-synthetase syndrome: about two cases].

Anti-synthetase syndrome (ASS) is an inflammatory myopathy commonly associated with pulmonary involvement, especially parenchymal (diffuse infiltrative pneumonitis). Extrathoracic manifestations associated with pulmonary involvement can give an indication to the diagnosis: myalgias, polyarthralgias, Raynaud's syndrome, erythematous palmar hyperkeratosis with fissures and fever. Given the suggestive clinical and radiological picture, the presence of aminoacyl-transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase antibodies enables to confirm, in particular, Anti Jo-1 antibody activity.

Towards a footwear design tool: influence of shoe midsole properties and ground stiffness on the impact force during running.

Several spring-damper-mass models of the human body have been developed in order to reproduce the measured ground vertical reaction forces during human running (McMahon and Cheng, 1990; Ferris et al., 1999; Liu and Nigg, 2000). In particular, Liu and Nigg introduced at the lower level of their model, i.