TransCenter: Transformers With Dense Representations for Multiple-Object Tracking.

Transformers have proven superior performance for a wide variety of tasks since they were introduced. In recent years, they have drawn attention from the vision community in tasks such as image classification and object detection. Despite this wave, an accurate and efficient multiple-object tracking (MOT) method based on transformers is yet to be designed.

Esca-affected grapevine leaf metabolome is clone- and vintage-dependent.

Esca is a complex grapevine trunk disease caused by wood-rotting ascomycetes and basidiomycetes and leading to several foliar and wood symptoms. Given that the esca expression can be influenced by several environmental, physiological, and genetic factors, foliar symptoms are inconsistent in incidence and prevalence and may appear 1 year but not the following. We have previously reported a clone-dependent expression of the disease in cv Chardonnay.

Pathogenic FBN1 Genetic Variation and Aortic Dissection in Patients With Marfan Syndrome.

Background: Aortic risk has not been evaluated in patients with Marfan syndrome and documented pathogenic variants in the FBN1 gene.

Objectives: This study sought to describe aortic risk in a population with Marfan syndrome with pathogenic variants in the FBN1 gene as a function of aortic root diameter.

Methods: Patients carrying an FBN1 pathogenic variant who visited our reference center at least twice were included, provided they had not undergone aortic surgery or had an aortic dissection before their first visit.

Current management of stage I testicular germ cell tumors in a French cancer institute. A practice analysis over the 10 past years.

Background: Testicular Germ Cell Tumors (TGCTs) represent the most frequent malignant tumour among young male adults. Orchiectomy alone cure 80% of stage I. Standard options after orchiectomy include radiotherapy (RT), chemotherapy (CT) by 1 cycle of carboplatin AUC 7 or active surveillance (SV) for seminomatous GCTs (SGCT) and retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy (RPLND), CT by 1 or 2 cycles of Bleomycine Etoposide Cisplatine (BEP) or active surveillance for nonseminomatous GCTs (NSGCT).

Clinical Significance of Aortic Root Modification Associated With Bicuspid Aortic Valve in Marfan Syndrome.

Background: Both bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and Marfan syndrome have been associated with aortic dissection risk, but it is unknown whether the presence of BAV is associated with an increased aortic risk in patients with an FBN1 gene mutation. We evaluated aortic diameters, aortic valve function, and aortic shape in Marfan syndrome patients with and without BAV and reported aortic events during follow-up.

Methods: All patients with an FBN1 gene mutation evaluated in our clinic were included.

High prevalence of ventricular repolarization abnormalities in people carrying TGFβR2 mutations.

Mutations in the TGFβR2 gene have been associated with a life threatening risk of aortic dissection but no arrhythmic death has been previously reported. Two young females carrying a TGFβR2 mutation, initially diagnosed as Marfan syndrome or Loeys Dietz syndrome, presented sudden death with autopsy ruling out dissection. The ECGs of the 2 Sudden Cardiac Deaths revealed profound ventricular repolarization abnormalities with a sinusoidal T-U morphology associated with normal left ventricular ejection fraction.

Marfan Sartan: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Aims: To evaluate the benefit of adding Losartan to baseline therapy in patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS).

Methods And Results: A double-blind, randomized, multi-centre, placebo-controlled, add on trial comparing Losartan (50 mg when <50 kg, 100 mg otherwise) vs. placebo in patients with MFS according to Ghent criteria, age >10 years old, and receiving standard therapy.

Risk factors for surgical complications after renal transplantation and impact on patient and graft survival.

Purpose: We report herein the incidence of and factors predisposive to surgical complications (SC) after renal transplantation.

Methods: Between 2004 and 2008, we performed 200 renal transplantation. We retrospectively studied recipient and donor characteristics, cold ischemia time, surgical revision in the month after transplantation, delayed graft function, surgical complications (vascular, urologic, wound, or bleeding), as well as graft and patient 5-year survival rates.

Outcomes of renal transplantation in obese recipients.

Purpose: Although obesity has been shown to paradoxically increase dialysis patient survival, its impact has not been clearly defined on renal transplantation. We assessed outcomes of obesity renal transplant patients by evaluating graft and patient survivals.

Patients And Methods: A single-institution, retrospective study was performed on 202 renal transplant recipients from January 2004 to December 2008 excluding two combined kidney and liver transplantations.

[Accuracy of prostate biopsies to evaluate tumor location in prostate cancer].

Introduction: The therapeutic approach of prostate cancer depends mainly on pathological criteria obtained through prostate biopsy. The low accuracy of prostate biopsy for Gleason grade determination is well known but its accuracy for bilateral or multifocal tumor has not been evaluated. The goal of this study was to assess the concordance between prostate biopsy and whole prostate specimen obtained after radical prostatectomy especially for bilateral and/or multifocal tumor.

[Muscularis mucosae invasion: prognostic factor for intravesical BCG immunotherapy failure for T1 bladder carcinoma].

Objectives: To study the prognostic impact of muscularis mucosae (MM) invasion for pT1 bladder cancer treated by transurethral resection (TUR) and adjuvant Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) intravesical immunotherapy.

Methods: Sixty-six patients treated by BCG intravesical instillations were substaged into pT1a and pT1b, regarding Muscularis Mucosae invasion. Tumor grade, associated carcinoma in situ (CIS), multifocality, tumoral size up to 3cm, BCG maintenance were noted.

Surgical management of patients with Marfan syndrome: evolution throughout the years.

Aim: To evaluate the evolution of surgical management in a large population of patients with Marfan syndrome.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of patients fulfilling the Ghent criteria for Marfan syndrome, who visited the Centre de référence national pour le syndrome de Marfan et apparentés and underwent a surgical event before or during follow-up in the centre.

Results: One thousand and ninety-seven patients with Marfan syndrome, according to international criteria, came to the clinic between 1996 and 2010.

[Urinary complications of one-stitch ureteroneocystostomy in renal transplantation].

Purpose: To assess urinary complications related to the "one-stitch" technique extravesical ureteroneocystostomy in renal transplantation, and evaluate the impact of such complications on kidney graft and patient survival.

Patients And Methods: A single-institution, retrospective study was performed on 202 renal transplant recipients, from January 2004 to December 2008. Two combined kidney and liver transplantations were excluded.

Ureterorenoscopy with holmium-yttrium-aluminum-garnet fragmentation is a safe and efficient technique for stone treatment in patients with a body mass index superior to 30 kg/m2.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze results and morbidity after flexible ureterorenoscopy in patients with a body mass index (BMI) >30 kg/m(2) and to compare with results obtained in a large cohort of nonobese patients.

Patients And Methods: We conducted a retrospective study including all flexible ureterorenoscopy performed for stone retrieval in our institution between January 2004 and December 2008. During the study period, 224 procedures were performed, of which 18 had to be excluded because of missing BMI data.

Aortic event rate in the Marfan population: a cohort study.

Background: Optimal management, including timing of surgery, remains debated in Marfan syndrome because of a lack of data on aortic risk associated with this disease.

Methods And Results: We used our database to evaluate aortic risk associated with standardized care. Patients who fulfilled the international criteria, had not had previous aortic surgery or dissection, and came to our center at least twice were included.

Dissection in Marfan syndrome: the importance of the descending aorta.

Aims: To better characterize patients with Marfan syndrome who have survived an acute aortic dissection and to estimate the risks of events in the descending aorta. Up until now, this portion of the aorta has not been well studied but is gaining importance due to improved patient survival.

Methods And Results: We report a retrospective cohort of 100 Marfan patients who survived an aortic dissection.

Nomograms for aortic root diameters in children using two-dimensional echocardiography.

The evaluation of aortic root dilation is of major importance for the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with diverse diseases, including the Marfan syndrome. However, we noted that the available nomograms suggested a lower aortic root dilation rate in adults (75%) than in children (90%), when the opposite would have been expected. To establish new nomograms, we selected a population of 353 normal children.

Odontoblast expression of semaphorin 7A during innervation of human dentin.

Semaphorin 7A (SEMA 7A) is a membrane-anchored member of the semaphorin family of guidance proteins, previously identified in the immune system. Expressed in central and peripheral nervous system during embryonic and post-natal stages, it can mediate neuronal functions by promoting axonal growth. We show here that SEMA 7A is expressed in human odontoblasts in vivo and in vitro and that its expression is correlated with the establishment of dentin-pulp complex terminal innervation .

Expression and function of semaphorin 7A in bone cells.

Background Information: Sema-7A is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored semaphorin that was first identified in the immune system. It is a member of a large family of proteins involved in axon guidance signalling. Sema-7A is expressed in the myeloid and the lymphoid lineage and seems to be involved in cytokine expression and chemotaxy through its receptor Plexin C1.

[Marfan syndrome].

Marfan's syndrome is a monogenetic disease with an autosomal dominant transmission generally accompanied by type I fibrillin abnormality. This widely-distributed molecule participates in the structure of connective tissues so that any aberration may result in disease of many systems: skeletal morphology, dislocation of the lens, neurological or cutaneous signs and dilatation of the aorta predisposing to dissection, mitral valve prolapse being a common association. The diagnosis, clinical because of the size of the culprit gene and the multiplicity of the possible mutations, is sometimes difficult, and diagnostic criteria have been proposed.

Decreased glycolytic metabolism contributes to but is not the inducer of apoptosis following IL-3-starvation.

IL-3 regulates the glycolytic pathway. In Baf-3 cells IL-3 starvation leads to a decrease in glucose uptake and in lactate production. To determine if there is a link between the decreased metabolism induced by growth factor-starvation and the induction of cell death, we have compared the cell death characteristics and the metabolic modifications induced by IL-3-deprivation or glucose-deprivation in Baf-3 cells.

[Marfan syndrome].

Marfan syndrome is a genetic illness, generally linked to an anomaly in fibrillin type 1, which is transmitted in an autosomally dominant fashion. Its diagnosis is sometimes difficult and should always be evoked in the face of a non-atheromatous aneurysm of the ascending aorta, lead to family screening in the search for aneurysms in any relatives, and an ophthalmological and rheumatological examination in the search for extracardiac signs. The diagnosis made, the dilatation of the aorta can be limited by proscribing violent sports and prescribing beta-blockers.

[Dystrophic aortic insufficiency].

Dystrophic aortic regurgitation is the result of 2 diseases: (1) aortic regurgitation, consequence of (2) aortic dilatation due to decreased aortic wall resistance. Marfan syndrome, which is a genetic disease, should be looked for systematically, with the help of an ophthalmologist and a rheumatologist. Aortic dilation is responsible for the increased mortality because of aortic dissection.

[Aortic dissection at 6 months gestation in a women with Marfan's syndrome. Simultaneous Bentall intervention and cesarean section].

A 31 year old woman with Marfan's syndrome had a dilatation of the aortic root (55-60 mm at the beginning of pregnancy). Pregnancy was continued with beta-blocker therapy and with regular echocardiographic follow-up. The aortic dilatation increased (62-65 mm) at the last control and, at the 34th week of pregnancy, the patient suffered a dissection of the ascending aorta.