Publications by authors named "Antoine Roche"
Objectives: Radiation delivered during CT is a major concern, especially for individuals undergoing repeated screening. We aimed to compare a new ultra-low-dose algorithm called Veo with the gold standard filtered back projection (FBP) for detecting pulmonary asbestos-related conditions.
Setting: University Hospital CHU G.
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- Erosive degenerative disc disease, or Modic type 1 changes, leads to low back pain resembling inflammatory pain patterns, and pamidronate has shown effectiveness in other painful bone conditions.
- This study, called PEPTIDE, aims to test the efficacy of pamidronate in treating low back pain associated with these changes, involving 48 patients split into two groups receiving either pamidronate or a placebo.
- The primary goal is to see a 30-point improvement on the Visual Analogue Scale for pain at three months, with additional assessments on functionality and safety, while maintaining the blinding of participants through a common pain reliever.
Spondylodiscitis are frequent and clinical challenge for practionners. Axial calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease (CPDD) is well known for cervical spine involvement with the crowned dens syndrome but other localisations are probably underdiagnosed in sterile spondylodiscitis. We report a case of recurrent sterile spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess related to CPDD proved by vertebral percutaneous needle biopsy with rapid favourable course under colchicine therapy.
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