Screening for Coronary Artery Disease in Asymptomatic Pilots with Diabetes Mellitus.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a cause of death in 75% of patients with diabetes. Its often asymptomatic nature delays diagnosis. In aeronautics, it can cause in-flight incapacitation, beyond which it represents a major fear for the medical expert.

High blood pressure and aeronautical fitness: experience at the aeromedical expertise center of Rabat.

High blood pressure is a major cardiovascular risk factor closely linked to serious cardiovascular events. A real public health problem affecting more than one in three adults. Aircrew does not escape this pathology, despite very strict medical selection and rigorous and regular medical monitoring by the aircrew doctor during revision visits.

Isolated Protein C Deficiency in a Newborn.

Background: Congenital protein C deficiency is a rare hereditary thrombophilia, neonatal purpura fulminans is the most serious form of this deficit. The purpose of this observation is two-fold. The first is the need to make an early diagnosis in order to improve the prognosis.

Outcomes of newborns to mothers with COVID-19.

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the world. Given the sharply increased infection rate, the number of pregnant women and children with COVID-19 is correspondingly on the rise. SARS-CoV-2 infection is transmitted through droplets; though hypothesized, other transmission routes have not been confirmed.

Fortuitous Discovery of Hereditary Xanthinuria.

Hereditary xanthinuria was the first inherited purine metabolism disorder described. It is a rare pathology, which is most often asymptomatic and whose incidence is therefore underestimated. We report the case of a patient with an undetectable level of uric acid in the blood, discovered during a systematic biological assessment.

Cannon Ball Diagnosis and Management in a Flight Attendant Candidate.

Background: ''Cannon ball'' opacities on chest X-rays are a common manifestation of hematogenous dissemination of a malignant tumor in the lungs. They indicate an advanced stage of disease with a very grim prognosis in terms of cure and survival. In aerospace medicine, this aspect means the patient is unfit for flight duties.

[Neonatal adrenal hematoma: various modes of presentation].

Neonatal adrenal hematoma is a rare condition, most frequently caused by trauma. We report three cases of adrenal hematoma admitted to the Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the A. Harouchi Children's Hospital, the Ibn Rushd University Hospital in Casablanca, Morocco, over a 2-year period from January 2011 to December 2012.

[Treatment specifics for spontaneous pneumothorax in flight personnel].

Spontaneous pneumothorax is one cause of aeronautical unfitness in flight personnel, because of the risk of recurrence in flight, making it an issue of flight safety. Specific treatment is required for fighter pilots, pilots flying single-pilot and pilots in professional training: surgical synthesis via video-thoracoscopy is obligatory from the first episode. Considering the exposure to an accumulation of aeronautical factors that are likely to encourage pneumothorax recurrence in flight, it is apical pleurectomy together with abrasion of the remaining pleura and resection of bullae/blebs that is required for fighter pilots to allow them to recover aeronautical fitness unrestrictedly.

[Nodular liver lesions with fever in a Moroccan man: hepatic brucelloma].

Hepatic brucelloma is an exceptional localization in brucellosis. The purpose of this report is to describe an uncommon case involving a 42-year-old man hospitalized for febrile hepatic cytolysis. Diagnosis was established based on positive rose bengal test results, positive blood culture, hypoechogenic masses on ultrasound, and hypodense enhancing masses on CT scan.

[Prostatic actinomycosis in a diabetic patient].

Introduction: Prostatic localization of actinomycosis is unusual.

Case Report: We report the case of a 59 years-old diabetic man, hospitalised for a prostatic actinomycosis spontaneously fistulised in the rectum. Two species of Actinomyces were found in blood culture and in pus of the fistula.

[Pulmonary eosinophilia in France: possible toxocariasis].

Introduction: In France, except in the overseas departments and territories, pulmonary eosinophilia rarely has a parasitic cause except among subjects who have traveled to tropic areas.

Case: A 19-year-old man was hospitalized for incidentally discovered hypereosinophilia. The thoracic CT scan showed several hyperdense nodules that suggested bilateral interstitial alveolar lesions.