[Value of C-reactive protein in neonatal bacterial infections].

C reactive protein (CRP) levels were measured in the serum of 2 groups of neonates before and after the 12th hour of life. One group consisted of controls, the other of children with neonatal sepsis. The means (+/- standard error) for CRP serum level were 6 +/- 0.

[Value of C-reactive protein determination in cranial traumatology].

Serum C reactive protein can be assayed precisely and specifically by immunonephelometry. This protein was determined daily for four days in 102 patients suffering of a skull trauma. Skull trauma without any complication (n=43) did not lead to a significant increase of C reactive protein level, in contrast to skull trauma complicated by an intracranial haematoma (n=32), in patients with profound coma (n=17) and in cases leading to a fatal issue (n=10).

[Variations in serum levels of C-reactive protein in severe head injury patients (author's transl)].

The variations of fibrinogen, alpha-antitrypsin, haptoglobin and C-reactive protein (CRP) were compared in sera from patients with a cranial trauma. All these protein concentrations were increased with CRP variation being the most marked and the most rapid. The prognostic and diagnostic value of CRP determination was studied in a series of 88 patients selected according to their clinical evolution.

[Postural blood pressure variations in primary acute polyradiculitis (author's transl)].

We have explored the baroreceptor reflex on nineteen patients free of all cardiovascular diseases having contracted acute primary polyradiculitis. The tilt test (at 30 degrees from the horizontal line) demonstrates that, at the acute point of the disease, there is a dysregulation of the arterial pressure characterised by an orthostatic hypotension with a lack of normal increase of the peripheric arterial resistances. Once the motor activity restituted, this dysregulation disappears without sequelae.