Exploring Work Absences and Return to Work During Social Transition and Following Gender-Affirming Care, a Mixed-Methods Approach: 'Bridging Support Actors Through Literacy'.

Purpose: Research on return to work (RTW) following transition-related gender-affirming care (GAC) is lacking. We aim to study the RTW outcomes and experiences of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people during social and medical transition to understand their needs better and provide tailored support.

Methods: In this convergent mixed-methods study, the questionnaires of 125 employed TGD people, who took steps in transition (social and GAC), were analyzed for personal- and work characteristics, medical work absences, RTW, support at work, and health literacy.

Developing and Pilot Testing of a Mini Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Occupational Epidemiology.

Objective: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer a flexible method of providing education to large numbers of people around the world. This study aimed to develop and pilot test a mini MOOC in order to teach knowledge and skills in occupational epidemiology.

Methods: Using instructional design principles, an open online course was developed.

Return to work of transgender people: A systematic review through the blender of occupational health.

Background And Objectives: Return to work (RTW) or work resumption after a work absence due to psychosocial or medical reasons benefits the well-being of a person, including transgender people, and is nowadays a major research domain. The objective is to examine, through an occupational lens, the literature reporting objective RTW outcomes and experiences in transgender people to (a) synthesize what is known about return to work (full-time, part-time, or self-employed) and (b) describe which gaps persist.

Methods & Sample: Several databases and the gray literature were explored systematically.

Return to work and associations with psychosocial well-being and health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease patients: Results from EUROASPIRE IV.

Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) can lead to loss of workability and early retirement. We aimed to investigate return to work (RTW) and its relationship towards psychosocial well-being and health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Design: Secondary analyses were applied to cross-sectional data from the EUROASPIRE IV survey (European Action on Secondary and Primary prevention through Intervention to Reduce Events).

The use of lanreotide in polycystic kidney disease: a single-centre experience.

The secretion of large volumes of fluid into cysts and changes in the structure and mobility of the cilia of the renal tubular epithelium can lead to nephromegaly. This in turn often causes a deterioration of kidney function and arterial hypertension. In recent clinical studies, somatostatin analogues have demonstrated efficacy in isolated polycystic liver disease and, to a lesser extent, in polycystic kidney disease.

Long-term evolution of the mineral metabolism after renal transplantation: a prospective, single-center cohort study.

Background: Abnormalities in bone and mineral metabolism are common after renal transplantation (RT) but information on their long-term time course is scarce.

Objectives: (1) Evaluate the time course of biochemical parameters of bone and mineral metabolism over 60 months after RT; (2) identify predictors for persistent hyperparathyroidism (HPT).

Design: Prospective, longitudinal, single-center cohort study.

Large spectrum of liver vascular lesions including high prevalence of focal nodular hyperplasia in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia: the Belgian Registry based on 30 patients.

Objectives: We report the Belgian Registry of 30 patients (19 women and 11 men) with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and liver involvement.

Results: Twenty-three patients (77%) were asymptomatic. Within the seven symptomatic patients (23%), four suffered from high output cardiac failure, two died before liver transplantation and one was transplanted.

The role of cytotoxic drugs in the treatment of central nervous system gliomas.

Gliomas are the mostfrequent subtype of primary brain tumors. They are lethal tumors, characterized by diffuse infiltration of the brain and a high resistance to conventional cancer therapies. Following maximal neurosurgical resection, bound to the limits of acceptable neurological sequelae, immediate post-operative radiotherapy is indicated in the majority of patients.

Transient recurrent ascites.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are widely used in heart diseases. We describe a case of a young woman treated with fosinopril. She started experiencing abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea with peritoneal signs on physical examination three years after her treatment has been initiated.

Ab initio study of free-radical polymerizations: cost-effective methods to determine the reaction rates.

The addition of carbon-centered radicals to ethene, which are important in free-radical polymerization processes, are studied from a theoretical point of view. Experimental data for the rate constants are only available for the addition of methyl, ethyl, propyl and butyl radicals. The latter reactions are taken as model systems to derive a cost-effective method for the addition of alkyl radicals to ethene.

Interest of the association clonidine-spironolactone in cirrhotic patients with ascites and activation of sympathetic nervous system.

Background: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of spironolactone, clonidine and the association of clonidine-spironolactone on renin-aldosterone and sympathetic systems, renal function, systemic hemodynamics and mobilization of ascites in 32 alcoholic cirrhotic patients with marked increase in sympathetic system.

Methods: Measurements were taken before and after an 8-day treatment with spironolactone (200 mg/day), after an 8-day treatment with clonidine (0.150 mg/day) and 10 days after adjunction of spironolactone (200 mg/day) to clonidine.

[Long term surveillance of polyps and colorectal cancers].

It is necessary to assume the colorectal cancer follow-up after curative operation to detect cancer recurrence and new polyps or cancers. A good follow-up by endoscopy is also necessary for patients with colorectal polyps and for patients with familial adenomatous polyposis.

[Biological factors influencing response to diuretics in patients with cirrhosis and ascites].

Purposes: To examine the biological factors influencing response to diuretics in patients with cirrhosis and ascites.

Methods: Sixty-nine patients were evaluated. Patients were classified into 3 groups: group 1: "good responders" (responding to spironolactone 200 mg/day), group 2: "bad responders" (responding to spironolactone doses above 200 mg/day or requiring addition of furosemide), and group 3: "non-responders" (not responding to spironolactone 400 mg/day and furosemide 160 mg/day).

[Diagnostic strategies for ischemic enteropathies].

Mesenteric ischemia is a life threatening event instead of colic ischemia which recovers in 90% of cases. Three points will be investigated: chronic mesenteric ischemia; acute mesenteric ischemia; colic ischemia.

[Hepatitis A and B vaccines].

Hepatitis A is a beginning disease in childhood but sometimes a very dangerous disease in adults. It is necessary to vaccine the non immune "risk groups". Hepatitis B is responsible for two millions deafs every year.

[Diagnosis of an 'apple-core' lesion in the course of a small bowel enema].

We describe a case of gallbladder carcinoma observed fortuitously during small bowel enteroclysis as an "apple-core" lesion. This case illustrates the non-specificity of the clinical manifestations as well as the usual pitfalls in the diagnostic step.

[Factors influencing healing of duodenal ulcer in smokers treated with cimetidine].

In 118 male patients with duodenal ulcer smoking cigarettes, treatment with cimetidine 1 g/day promoted healing of the ulcers in 67% after four weeks. No differences were observed between healed and not healed patients for age, symptom period before treatment, early onset and multiple ulcers. In not healed patients, more had a greater ulcer diameter (p less than 0.

[Comparison of 24-hour gastric pH in normal controls and patients with duodenal ulcer or atrophic gastritis].

Twenty-four intragastric acidity was measured by continuous recording using intragastric glass electrodes in 16 normal controls, 18 inactive duodenal ulcer patients and 7 patients with atrophic gastritis. Median pH for the 24 h period, for the 8 AM-8 PM period, and for the 8 PM-8 AM period were significantly lower in duodenal ulcer patients than in controls (1.19 vs 1.

[Comparison of 24-hour gastric pH in control subjects, in patients with duodenal ulcer and in patients with atrophic gastritis].

Twenty four hour intragastric acidity was measured by continuous recording using intragastric glass electrodes in 16 controls, 18 inactive duodenal ulcer patients and 7 patients suffering from atrophic gastritis. Medians pH for the 24h period, for the 8 AM-8 PM period, for the 8 AM-8 PM period were significantly lower in duodenal ulcer patients than in controls (1.19 vs 1.

[Effect of 300 mg of ranitidine, 800 mg of cimetidine and a placebo administered after the evening meal on 24-hour gastric pH in patients with duodenal ulcer].

Twenty-four-hour intragastric pH monitoring was performed in 20 patients with duodenal ulcer in order to compare the results obtained with placebo, ranitidine 300 mg and cimetidine 800 mg administered one hour (7 PM) after evening meal (6 PM). During each 24 h period (8 AM-8 AM), gastric pH was continuously monitored in standardized dietary conditions. Treatment was started the evening (7 PM) before the test.