Cardiac Catheterization Post Congenital Cardiac Surgery: Analysis of Risk Factors for Mortality and Literature Review.

Background Diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization plays a significant role in the management of congenital heart defects with acceptable risks. Its role has also evolved in sick children but is associated with higher risks due to technical difficulties and co-morbidity factors. Some of the post-cardiac surgery children who show resistance to conventional management during the early postoperative period usually have residual defects or obstructions.

Parosteal Lipoma.

Recognizing the distinct imaging features of parosteal lipoma.

The innovative dimension of the research training programmes under H2020-MSCA-ITN: a methodological approach to track, measure and analyse innovative aspects and provide policy-feedback conclusions.

Innovative research training programmes funded by the European Union are essential for the forging of highly skilled researchers to tackle, via breakthrough ideas and solutions, the challenges of our society. Being able to track, measure and analyse innovative aspects of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks under the Horizon2020 funding scheme enables the impact assessment of such programmes, while filtering best practices and the generated knowledge that could ultimately breed and create further innovation. In parallel, it helps the identification of areas for improvement, the understanding of new needs to be accommodated and the co-design and implementation of EU funding policy activities to further promote innovation and excellence for researchers across Europe and beyond.

A short anogenital distance on MRI is a marker of endometriosis.

Study Question: Could the anogenital distance (AGD) as assessed by MRI (MRI-AGD) be a diagnostic tool for endometriosis?

Summary Answer: A short MRI-AGD is a strong diagnostic marker of endometriosis.

What Is Known Already: A short clinically assessed AGD (C-AGD) is associated with the presence of endometriosis.

Study Design Size Duration: This study is a re-analysis of previously published data from a case-control study.

Prognosis of HER2-positive pregnancy-associated breast cancer: Analysis from the French CALG (Cancer Associé à La Grossesse) network.

Introduction: The prevalence of pregnancy-associated breast cancer is increasing. HER2-positive breast cancers typically have a poor prognosis. The objective of our study was to compare the prognosis of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer diagnosed during pregnancy (HER2-positive BCP) to young women diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer outside of pregnancy (HER2 non-BCP).

Comparison of robotic versus conventional laparoscopy for the treatment of colorectal endometriosis: Pilot study of an expert center.

Introduction: Surgical management of deep endometriosis with colorectal involvement remains an option after failure of medical treatments. Conventional laparoscopy is currently considered the standard approach for surgical treatment. Recently, assisted-robotic laparoscopy emerged as an alternative to conventional laparoscopy but with low evidence.

Anogenital distance in adult women is a strong marker of endometriosis: results of a prospective study with laparoscopic and histological findings.

Study Question: Could anogenital distance (AGD) be a non-invasive marker of endometriosis and correlated to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine revised score (r-ASRM) and ENZIAN classifications?

Summary Answer: Surgically and histologically proven endometriosis is associated with a short AGD in women of reproductive age but not correlated either to the severity or to the location of the disease.

What Is Known Already: AGD is a marker of intrauterine androgen exposure and exposure to oestrogen-like chemicals such as phthalates. Moreover, exposure to endocrine disruptors, such as organochlorine chemicals, is associated with endometriosis.

Oncological management of pregnancy-associated cancers: analysis from the French CALG (Cancer Associé à La Grossesse) network.

Pregnancy-associated cancers constitute a major medical challenge. The objective of this study was to describe their epidemiological, oncological and obstetrical outcomes from the French CALG (Cancer Associé à La Grossesse) network. Retrospective analysis of patients diagnosed with a cancer associated with pregnancy between January 2015 and December 2018 after advice from the CALG network.

Efficacy and safety outcomes after genital prolapse repair by the vaginal route using the Avaulta Plus® mesh.

Objective(s): With aging population, a rise in anterior wall prolapse surgery is expected. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of genital prolapse repair by the vaginal route using a mixed polypropylene and porcine skin mesh (Avaulta Plus®).

Study Design: Retrospective study conducted at Tenon University Hospital, Paris, France.

Invasive and in situ cervical cancer associated with pregnancy: analysis from the French cancer network (CALG: Cancer Associé à La Grossesse).

Purpose: To describe the oncologic and obstetric outcomes of patients diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer (ICC) and in situ adenocarcinoma (ISA) during pregnancy or during the year following delivery.

Methods: This retrospective observational study involved a cohort of 28 patients diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer (20 patients) or in situ adenocarcinoma (eight patients) during pregnancy or during the year following delivery who received expert opinion from physicians of the Cancer Associé à La Grossesse (CALG) network between 2005 and 2018. Descriptive results were expressed in median, range and interquartile range (IQR).

Bovine jugular vein valved xenograft for extracardiac total cavo-pulmonary connection: The risk of thrombosis and the potential liver protection effect.

Background: Currently, non-valved conduits are preferred for extracardiac total cavo-pulmonary connection (TCPC). However, previous work has failed to provide objective data comparing the postoperative outcome between non-valved TCPCs and bovine jugular vein valved xenograft (BJV) TCPCs. Hence, the objective of this study is to compare the postoperative outcomes in extracardiac TCPC patients who received BJV vs synthetic non-valved conduits and evaluate the effect of BJV on liver fibrosis.

Prevesical peritoneum interposition to prevent risk of rectovaginal fistula after en bloc colorectal resection with hysterectomy for endometriosis: Results of a pilot study.

Objective: To evaluate the risk of rectovaginal fistula after en bloc hysterectomy and colorectal resection (H-CR) for endometriosis using prevesical peritoneum interposition.

Study Design: A retrospective study conducted at Tenon University Hospital, expert center in endometriosis, from June 2016 to June 2018. Patients undergoing H-CR with prevesical peritoneum interposition without protective defunctioning stoma were included.

[Lymph node management in endometrial cancer].

In 2018, around 382,100 new cases of endometrial cancer (EC) were reported worldwide, accounting for about 4.4% of all new cases of cancer in women. In France, in 2018, the EC is the first gynecological cancer in incidence and the fourth cancer in women.

Benign polypoid adenomyomatous endometrium associated with hpt-JT syndrome: a case report.

Hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor (HPT-JT) is an autosomal dominant disorder responsible for benign and/or malignant tumors. Affected women often present life-threatening menorrhagia that leads to the identification of uterine tumors, and experience miscarriages and infertility. Overall though, fewer data concerning gynecological pathologies related to HPT-JT syndrome are available.

Nomogram predicting the likelihood of complications after surgery for deep endometriosis without bowel involvement.

Study Objective: To describe complications following surgery for deep endometriosis (DE) without bowel involvement and to develop a nomogram for predicting postoperative complications.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Tertiary referral university hospital and expert center in endometriosis.

Feasibility, Complications, and Recurrence after Discoid Resection for Colorectal Endometriosis: A Series of 93 Cases.

Laparoscopic discoid colorectal resection is a surgical option for bowel endometriosis, 1 of the most severe forms of endometriosis. However, no study has clearly analyzed the feasibility or the complication and recurrence rates of the procedure in a homogeneous population with specific criteria for discoid resection. The aims of this study were to evaluate the rate of conversion to segmental resection, the need for double discoid resection, and the complication and recurrence rates.

Laterally Extended Endopelvic Resection of Recurrent Epithelioid Trophoblastic Tumor by Laparoscopy.

We report the resection of a recurrent epithelioid trophoblastic tumor by laparoscopic laterally extended endopelvic resection (LEER). The LEER technique was developed to resect en bloc multiple visceral compartments involving the lateral pelvic wall with negative margins for local control of advanced and recurrent malignancies. Described by Höckel, this procedure is usually performed by a midline laparotomy.

HPV DNA integration site as proof of the origin of ovarian metastasis from endocervical adenocarcinoma: three case reports.

Background: Most endocervical adenocarcinomas are human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers associated with p16 immunostaining. Ovarian metastasis from cervical cancer is a rare phenomenon, the mechanism of dissemination remains unclear. The diagnosis of metastasis may be difficult to establish when the ovarian neoplasm presents features consistent with primary tumor.

Nomogram predicting the likelihood of live-birth rate after surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis without bowel involvement in women who wish to conceive: A retrospective study.

Objective: To study the fertility and live birth (LB) rate in women after surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) without bowel involvement and to evaluate the predictive factors of LB after DIE surgery without bowel involvement.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. A total of 118 women who wished to conceive and who underwent surgery for DIE without bowel involvement were analyzed between January 2006 and December 2014.

Results from a Monocentric Long-Term Analysis of 23 Patients with Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumors.

Background: Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors (SLCTs) represent less than 0.5% of ovarian tumors. Because of the rarity of this tumor and its peak in frequency at around 25 years of age, this study aimed to describe SLCT management strategies.

Stent Angioplasty for Critical Native Aortic Coarctation in Three Infants: Up to 15-Year Follow-Up Without Surgical Intervention and Review of the Literature.

Management of neonatal native coarctation is debated till now. Surgical therapy remains an option but may be unwarranted in critically sick infants with complex lesions. Balloon dilatation has been employed but with early re-stenosis.