Corneal foreign bodies: are antiseptics and antibiotics equally effective?

Purpose: To compare the effect of antiseptics and antibiotics on the occurrence of Infectious Keratitis (IK) secondary to Corneal Foreign Body (CFB) removal.

Methods: Multicenter retrospective study conducted between June 2020 and June 2022 in patients referred for CFBs and treated with Picloxydine (Group 1) or Tobramycin (Group 2) for 7 days. A follow-up visit was scheduled on Day 3 (D3) and a phone call on D30.

[Microalbuminuria and diabetic nephropathy. Detection and correlation with other degenerative complications].

The prevalence of microalbuminuria and persistent proteinuria was studied in a population of 801 diabetic patients (535 with type II and 266 with type I diabetes). Urinary albumin excretion rate (AER) was measured on morning samples by laser nephelometry. Normoalbuminuria, as defined, in the absence of contaminated urine, by an albumin: creatinine (A/C) ratio below 2, was found in 551 patients, microalbuminuria (NC greater than or equal to 2 with AER below 200 mg/l) in 190 patients and persistent proteinuria (AER greater than or equal to 200 mg/l) in 60 patients.

[C-peptide assays of the urine and plasma at baseline and under stimulation with glucagon in healthy subjects and diabetics].

Urinary (CPU) and plasma C peptide values at baseline (CP0) and under stimulation with glucagon were determined in healthy subjects (n = 17) and in insulin-dependent (IDD, n = 45) and non insulin-dependent (NIDD, n = 32) diabetics. A significant difference in the parameters of insulin secretion (x? SD) was found on the one hand between the IDD group (CPU = 5.58 +/- 5.

[Restoration of insulin sensitivity after correction of hypokalemia due to chronic tubulopathy in a diabetic patient].

In a type II diabetic patient presenting with chronic hypokaliemia secondary to a selective renal tubulopathy, insulin sensitivity was explored three times during a euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp procedure at two rates of insulin infusion: 1 and 10 mU/kg/min: once before treatment of hypokaliemia and once after successful correction of hypokaliemia with indomethacine or spironolactone. During insulin infusion, a 20% dextrose solution was infused by a Biostator in order to maintain the patient's glycemia at 90 mg/dl. Amounts of glucose infused during the last 20 min of each 2 hour insulin infusion were (at 1 and 10 m/kg/min respectively): before treatment (K+ = 2.

[Cushing's syndrome caused by ectopic production of CRF by a medullary carcinoma of the thyroid body].

A 58-yr-old man presented a Cushing's syndrome gradually developed for two years, and a cervical tumor. Urinary free cortisol and 17-hydroxy-corticosteroids were elevated and non suppressible under high dose dexamethasone (8 mg a day X 2 days). Plasma calcitonin (7,200 pg/ml), CEA (803 ng/l), beta LPH (624 pg/ml), and CRF (29 pg/ml) were elevated.