Assessing forefoot bursitis in rheumatoid arthritis: a comprehensive approach with ultrasound, MRI, and baropodometry.

Aim: In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), forefoot bursitis is prevalent, with limited studies comparing ultrasonography (US) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This study aims to evaluate these bursae, providing a comparative analysis of US and MRI, and explore associations with demographic, disease-related factors, pain, clinical examination, and baropodometryin RA patients.

Material And Methods: Participants with RA were recruited from the day-hospital clinic.

Assessment of defecation disorders using high-resolution MRI-defecography.

Aims: The aim of this retrospective study was to try to find correlations between different diagnoses established by clinical examination, anorectal manometry and MRI-defecography and, the association with psychiatric disorders.

Methods: 44 patients (median age 53.81 years) presenting with intestinal motility disorders and who underwent clinical, biological and psychiatric examination, dynamic defecographic-MRI (resting, squeezing, straining, defecation and evacuation phases), anorectal manometry, colonoscopy.

Repair of joint erosions in rheumatoid arthritis: prevalence and patient characteristics in a large inception cohort.

Background: Joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was until recently seen as an irreversible state. Lately, it was found that repair of bone erosions occurs; however, little is known about its prevalence.

Objective: To investigate the frequency of repair and patients' characteristics associated with repair in an inception cohort.

Differential expression of GL7 activation antigen on bone marrow B cell subpopulations and peripheral B cells.

GL7 was originally described as a 35-kDa late activation antigen on mouse T and B cells. GL7 expression has also been demonstrated on thymocytes, germinal center B cells and some neuronal cell types. Flow-cytometry and immunohistochemistry were used to follow changes in the expression of GL7 during B cell development, amongst B cell subpopulations and various anatomical locations.

Emergency percutaneous nephrostomy in the septic kidney.

From 250 upper tract obstructive uropathy cases we have studied 64 patients hospitalized with toxico-septic shock. The constant symptom was arterial hypotension. Other 3 patients with long-standing urinary infection due to lithiasis developed this dreaded complication after PNL (staghorn stones-2, pyelic stone-1).

The place of echography in percutaneous nephrostomy and nephrostolithotomy.

The advantages and limits of echography in the performance of percutaneous nephrostomy and nephrostolithotomy are described, based on our own cases.

Anterograde urethrotomy, a new method for internal urethrotomy.

The authors elaborated a new device permitting to perform internal urethrotomy for urethral stricture in an anterograde way, even in cases where optical retrograde urethrotomy could not be applied. The new device is similar to a bladder biopsy forceps with a diameter of Ch 5. Its cutting knife is movable.

Original transvesical prostatectomy.

Starting out from a series of theoretical considerations, and checked clinically, the authors describe an original technique for prostatic adenomectomy, being more efficient in limitation of surgical haemorrhage, urinary infection and postoperative hypogastric fistulae. The operative technique and its results in comparison with classic techniques are presented.

Improved suprapubic vesical drainage in transvesical prostatectomy.

An improved drainage is used in transvesical prostatectomy in order to avoid urinary retention after removal of the Novak-type suprapubic drainage with bladder neck cerclage haemostasis (described by some authors in 1975). The causes of urinary retention are analysed, the drainage technique as well as the mechanisms eliminating the above-mentioned complications are described.

[Technic of transvesical suprapubic adenomectomy for the control of hemorrhage and urinary infection].

The advantages of our method: 1. By omission of the urethral catheter the infection is nearly completely avoided. 2.