[Interprofessional collaboration between new nursing graduates and social workers: Hospital discharge planning telephone calls.].

Introduction: In hospitals, the discharge of patients needing home care or going to a care facility is planned interprofessionally, in particular via telephone calls between nurses and social workers.

Context: During discharge planning, the collaboration between a nurse and a social worker is fraught with tension. When this planning is conducted over the phone and the nurse is a new graduate, the tension can be heightened.

Prognostic coronary surgery in a case of malignant mesothelioma previously managed with trimodality treatment.

We report a case of malignant pleural mesothelioma treated with trimodality treatment. At three years after the extrapleural pneumonectomy, coronary artery revascularisation surgery for NSTEMI was performed in view of favourable long term prognostic and survival outcome. Five years following pleuropneumonectomy there is no clinical or radiological evidence of mesothelioma and the patient remains free of cardiac symptoms.

Systemic effects of epidural methylprednisolone injection on glucose tolerance in diabetic patients.

Background: Several studies have shown that in diabetic patients, the glycemic profile was disturbed after intra-articular injection of corticosteroids. Little is known about the impact of epidural injection in such patients. The goal of this study was double, at first comparing the glycaemic profile in diabetic patients after a unique injection of 80 mg of acetate methylprednisolone either intra-articular or epidural and secondly to compare the amount of systemic diffusion of the drug after both procedures.

Malignant optic glioma presenting as an acute anterior optic neuropathy.

Purpose: To describe an uncommon case of malignant optic glioma and the challenges in its diagnosis.

Methods: Case report with funduscopic, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and automated field test correlations.

Patient: A 60-year-old man presented with a 1-week history of left optic disk swelling and optic neuropathy that was initially diagnosed as nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION).