Outpatient laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy: Feasibility and patient satisfaction.

Study Objective: To assess the feasibility and patient satisfaction of outpatient management of laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy.

Design: Observational study.

Setting: Multicentric study in four French centers: La Conception University Hospital, Marseille; Simone Veil Hospital, Cannes; Simone Veil Hospital, Eaubonne; and Jules Verne Clinic, Nantes.

Feasibility of sacrocolpopexy by outpatient laparoscopic surgery.

Introduction: Sacrocolpopexy (SP) is a common intervention that is most often performed by laparoscopy. This intervention usually involves standard hospitalization. Evaluation of whether this procedure can be safely carried out by outpatient hospitalization (OH) is of considerable relevance.

Facial emotion processing in patients with social anxiety disorder and Williams-Beuren syndrome: an fMRI study.

Background: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) and Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) are 2 conditions with major differences in terms of genetics, development and cognitive profiles. Both conditions are associated with compromised abilities in overlapping areas, including social approach, processing of social emotional cues and gaze behaviour, and to some extent they are associated with opposite behaviours in these domains. We examined common and distinct patterns of brain activation during a facial emotion processing paradigm in patients with SAD and WBS.

Laparoscopic hysterectomy after concurrent radiochemotherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer compared to laparotomy: A multi institutional prospective pilot study of cost, surgical outcome and quality of life.

Objective: Laparoscopy allows hysterectomies after chemoradiation to be performed without opening the abdominal wall. We measured the costs and quality of life for locally advanced cervical cancer patients operated on via laparoscopy compared to laparotomy.

Study Design: We conducted an observational prospective multicenter study on locally advanced cervical cancer patients undergoing an extrafascial hysterectomy after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT).

New evidence of heterogeneity in social anxiety disorder: defining two qualitatively different personality profiles taking into account clinical, environmental and genetic factors.

Purpose: To study qualitatively different subgroups of social anxiety disorder (SAD) based on harm avoidance (HA) and novelty seeking (NS) dimensions.

Method: One hundred and forty-two university students with SAD (SCID-DSM-IV) were included in the study. The temperament dimensions HA and NS from the Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory were subjected to cluster analysis to identify meaningful subgroups.

Common and distinct neural correlates of facial emotion processing in social anxiety disorder and Williams syndrome: A systematic review and voxel-based meta-analysis of functional resonance imaging studies.

Background: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and Williams-Beuren Syndrome (WS) are two conditions which seem to be at opposite ends in the continuum of social fear but show compromised abilities in some overlapping areas, including some social interactions, gaze contact and processing of facial emotional cues. The increase in the number of neuroimaging studies has greatly expanded our knowledge of the neural bases of facial emotion processing in both conditions. However, to date, SAD and WS have not been compared.

Social anxiety and negative early life events in university students.

Introduction: There is substantial evidence regarding the impact of negative life events during childhood on the aetiology of psychiatric disorders. We examined the association between negative early life events and social anxiety in a sample of 571 Spanish University students.

Methods: In a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2007, we collected data through a semistructured questionnaire of sociodemographic variables, personal and family psychiatric history, and substance abuse.

Investigation of the possible association between nosocomial candiduria and candidaemia.

This study aimed to determine whether candiduria is associated with the occurrence of nosocomial candidaemia. In the case-control part of the study, 115 cases (nosocomial candidaemia) and 115 controls (nosocomial bacteraemia) were similar in age, severity of condition and time of hospitalisation. There was a significant association of candidaemia with candiduria (OR 9.

Management of choledocholithiasis during pregnancy by magnetic resonance cholangiography and laparoscopic common bile duct stone extraction.

Management of common bile duct (CBD) stones during pregnancy is a difficult problem. The authors reported the case of a patient who was 22 weeks' pregnant who had a symptomatic CBD stone successfully treated by the association of magnetic resonance cholangiography and laparoscopic CBD stone removal. The patient delivered a healthy baby boy at 39 weeks.

[Body changes during pregnancy].

Pregnancy induces numerous changes in the physiology of the woman. Those changes are necessary for the embryo and fetus to have a normal growth, and for the woman to adapt to that physiologic event. A 50% raised cardiac flow is the consequence of increased systolic flow and cardiac frequency.

Results of duodenopancreatectomy for solitary pancreatic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma.

The pancreas is an uncommon site of metastasis from renal cell carcinoma. We present five patients with solitary pancreatic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma located in the head of the pancreas, treated by duodenopancreatectomy. There were no perioperative deaths.

Metastatic gastric cancer arising from breast carcinoma: endoscopic ultrasonographic aspects.

Linitis plastica of the stomach was diagnosed in four patients. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) was performed in four cases; they were monitored by EUS and had their treatment adapted accordingly. According to the present study, the typical criteria of gastric linitis at EUS are: (a) rigidity of the gastric wall; (b) a wall thickness exceeding 6 mm; (c) a second enlarged layer marginally more echogenic than the fourth hypoechogenic layer (muscularis propria); (d) a third hyperechogenic enlarged layer; and (e) a poor demarcation between layers.

[Is ultrasound screening for ovarian cancer possible in 1998?].

Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of gynecologic cancer death, as most patients present with advanced disease, in which the prognosis is poor. Five year-survival is only 35% for all stages, while it exceeds 90% in stage I. Consequently, there has been heightened interest in the development of screening modalities that can detect ovarian cancer at an early stage to reduce the mortality of this disease.

Inhibin assays of ovarian cyst liquid obtained by needle aspiration may allow differential diagnosis between functional and organic cysts.

Radioimmunoassays of estradiol, CA125 and inhibin were carried out on ovarian cyst fluid samples. The samples were taken from ten women with functional cysts and 15 women with organic cysts. Statistical analysis shows that estradiol and inhibin assays allows satisfactory differential diagnosis between functional and organic cysts.

[Granulomatous mastitis and corynebacteria infection. Two case reports].

Diagnosis of granulomatous mastitis must be based on a multidisciplinary approach. First, it's necessary to eliminate carcinomatous mastitis. Usually, the diagnosis is unknown except for tuberculous and sarcoidosis granulomatous mastitis.

[Stenosis of the rectum secondary to an invasive adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Apropos of 3 cases].

There exist rare cases in which a prostatic carcinoma invades the perirectal space producing an extrinsic rectal stenosis. Three cases are discussed. Differential diagnosis with a rectal tumor is difficult clinically, but endorectal ultrasound and deep rectal biopsies must provide the correct diagnosis in most cases.

[On the use of an anabolic hormone in the acute myocardial infarction. Experimental trial on 486 patients (author's transl)].

An anabolic hormone, methandrostenolone, was shown to be able to decrease significantly the cicatrization-time on animals with induced sperimental acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A controlled clinical trial was performed on group of 246 patients affected by AMI, giving them methandrostenolone at dose of 25 mg im.m.