Outcomes of bariatric surgery in patients with inflammatory bowel disease from a French nationwide database.

Background: The outcomes of bariatric surgery (BS) in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remain rarely described. We aimed to evaluate the 90-day morbidity and mortality rates, and the risk of IBD complications 2 years after BS.

Method: Patients from the French Programme de Médicalisation des Systèmes d'Information (PMSI) database who underwent a primary BS between 2016 and 2018 were included.

Impact of donor comorbidities on heart transplant outcomes in the modern era.

Objectives: The use of marginal donors with cardiovascular risk factors is increasing due to organ shortage but remains controversial in heart transplantation (HTx). We sought to investigate post-transplant outcomes in the recent era taking into account donor characteristics.

Methods: We reviewed 261 HTx performed in our hospital between January 1996 and March 2013.

Likely effect of the 2014 Ebola epidemic on HIV care in Liberia.

Objective: Liberia's health system has been severely struck by the 2014 Ebola epidemic. We aimed to assess the potential effect of this epidemic on the care of HIV patient in two clinics [John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Redemption Hospitals] in Monrovia, which stayed open throughout the epidemic.

Comparison of Preoperative and Postoperative Characteristics in Octogenarians Having Isolated Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement Before Versus After Introduction of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation.

Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most frequent heart valve disease. Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) is the reference treatment. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as an alternative treatment.

Logistic EuroSCORE I risk analysis in aortic valve reoperations after bioprosthetic replacement.

Background And Aim Of The Study: The aim was to evaluate the early and long-term results of redo-aortic valve replacement (AVR) for dysfunctioning bioprostheses, according to the type of bioprosthesis failure. The performance of the EuroSCORE in predicting operative mortality was addressed.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed of 164 patients who had undergone redo-AVR at the authors' institution.

Long-term effects of therapeutic education for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Introduction: The objective of this study was to assess the effects of an educational program on the course of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) after 3 years.

Methods: From December 2002 to December 2003, 39 RA patients participated in a 3-day education program delivered to groups of four or five patients. Effects of the program were evaluated after 3 years in 33 patients, comparatively to baseline, based on the following variables: knowledge of RA (self-questionnaire), disease activity (DAS 28), functional impairment (health assessment questionnaire [HAQ]) and quality of life (arthritis impact measurement scale 2 [AIMS2], short-form).

Serum transferrin saturation increase is associated with decrease of antibacterial activity of serum in patients with HFE-related genetic hemochromatosis.

Objectives: Patients with type 1 (HFE-related) genetic hemochromatosis are usually excluded from blood donation on the basis that this disease may facilitate bacterial infections. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the serum antibacterial effect against Salmonella enterica Typhimurium LT2 in relation to iron status.

Methods: Serum samples were collected in 26 iron-overloaded (homozygous C282Y mutation) and 35 iron-depleted hemochromatosis patients and 33 healthy control subjects.

Resting echocardiographic assessments of left atrial function and filling pressure interest in the understanding of exercise capacity in patients with chronic congestive heart failure.

Objective: Doppler echocardiography is well recognized as the primary noninvasive imaging technique to assess global and regional cardiac function. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing has become a powerful tool to predict outcome in chronic heart failure (CHF). We looked for cardiac determinants, using resting echocardiographic parameters, of exercise tolerance in patients with CHF.

Edwards Mira bileaflet prosthesis in aortic position: midterm results of a prospective multi-centre study.

This prospective multicentre study assessed the midterm clinical and haemodynamic results of the Edwards Mira curved bileaflet prosthesis in aortic position. From June 1998 to October 2000, 117 patients, mean age 64 years (31-78 years) underwent aortic valve replacement with the Edwards Mira valve in three institutions. Clinical status, haemodynamic performance and valve related complications were assessed.

[Cardiac surgery in the elderly].

Cardiac disease in the elderly represents a major burden on public healthcare. Their frequences is linked to ageing process of general population and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in older ages. Two diseases are of primary importance in elderly: Aortic valve stenosis is the most common.

Current hospital mortality of aortic valve replacement in octogenarians.

Background And Aim Of The Study: The increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease with age, coupled to a constant extension of life expectancy in industrialized countries, is leading to an ever-increasing number of elderly patients being referred for aortic valve replacement (AVR). In light of advances in surgical technology and cardiac protection, the operative mortality and risk factors have been updated in order to specify surgical indications.

Methods: Between January 2000 and December 2004, a total of 442 patients (203 males, 239 females) aged > or =80 years (mean age 82.