Publications by authors named "Dommergues M"

Scurvy is now considered to be a rare disease in European countries, even among children, but it still exists. We report the case of an 18-month-old boy who was initially hospitalized for a walking disorder and ultimately diagnosed with scurvy. Radiographs were compatible with rickets, but biological analysis ruled out this diagnosis.

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Background And Objectives: Violence against women (VAW) is widespread and can have serious physical and mental health consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and sleep disorders. Victim-survivors often face barriers in accessing specialised care, highlighting the need for a multidisciplinary response, especially in healthcare settings. The Maison des Femmes (MdF) model provides holistic support to women experiencing VAW, including medical, psychological, social and legal support.

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Background: Teledermatology has been widely deployed over the past decade in France, becoming an indispensable tool in daily practice. Pediatric dermatology is a subspecialty of dermatology limited to a small number of specialists. In 2013, the Argenteuil Hospital developed a structured store-and-forward (SAF) service that is particularly well-suited for the field of pediatric dermatology.

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Expanded CAG repeats in coding regions of different genes are the most common cause of dominantly inherited spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs). These repeats are unstable through the germline, and larger repeats lead to earlier onset. We measured somatic expansion in blood samples collected from 30 SCA1, 50 SCA2, 74 SCA3, and 30 SCA7 individuals over a mean interval of 8.

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  • The study investigates the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women during their 2nd and 3rd trimesters, focusing on outcomes for both mothers and newborns during the first two COVID-19 waves in Paris from April 2020 to January 2021.
  • Conducted in 10 maternity hospitals, the research included 2,410 pregnant women, with 310 testing positive for the virus, mostly around 28 to 37 weeks of gestation, and found that many could be treated as outpatients, while 23% required hospitalization.
  • Key findings revealed that multiparous women were more likely to have serious outcomes such as preterm delivery and an
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Aims: Inherited cardiomyopathies are relatively rare but carry a high risk of cardiac maternal morbidity and mortality during pregnancy and postpartum. However, data for risk stratification are scarce. The new CARPREG II score improves prediction of prognosis in pregnancies associated with heart disease, though its role in inherited cardiomyopathies is unclear.

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Most osteoarticular infections (OAI) occur via the hematogenous route, affect children under 5 years of age old, and include osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, osteoarthritis and spondylodiscitis. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment are needed to avoid complications. Children with suspected OAI should be hospitalized at the start of therapy.

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns triggered social discontent on an unprecedented scale. Descriptive phenomenological studies showed that pregnant women were under intense stress during the COVID-19 outbreak, even though they remained uninfected. The purpose of this study was to report on the experiences of pregnant women affected by mild COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic.

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Background: In Europe, meningococcal (Men) vaccines are available against 5 of the 6 serogroups responsible of nearly all cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). Meningococcal vaccination has been introduced in the national immunization programs (NIPs) for children and adolescents of numerous European countries, but with no consistent strategy across countries.

Objectives: To describe IMD epidemiology, NIPs, and vaccination coverage rates (VCRs) in children and adolescents in 8 Western European countries.

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  • Since 2009, the Democratic Republic of Congo has conducted surveillance on rotavirus gastroenteritis, revealing key epidemiological data before the introduction of the vaccine in 2019.
  • Over the studied period, around 4,928 children under age 5 were admitted, with a 60% positivity rate for rotavirus and a peak incidence observed during the dry season from May to September.
  • Genotyping of rotavirus showed that G1P[8] was the most prevalent strain, with variations in genotype distribution based on factors like age and location.
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  • Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) against COVID-19, implemented in March 2020, resulted in a significant reduction in hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia (hCAP) cases in children in France.
  • A detailed analysis of 2,972 hCAP cases revealed a 63% drop in monthly cases after NPIs began, with a notable increase in the median age of affected children.
  • The study also found that fewer children had high inflammatory markers and there was a trend towards a decrease in pleural effusion cases during the NPI period, suggesting changes in the pathogens causing hCAP.
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Introduction: The aim of the study was to identify the obstetric risk factors for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in infants with asphyxia at birth.

Material And Methods: This multicenter case-control study covered the 5-year period from 2014 through 2018 and included newborns ≥36 weeks of gestation with an umbilical pH at birth ≤7.0.

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Aim: Birth asphyxia can lead to organ dysfunction, varying from isolated biological acidosis to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Pathophysiology of moderate or severe HIE is now well known and guidelines exist regarding the care required in this situation. However, for newborns without moderate or severe HIE, no consensus is available.

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  • Blood cultures in children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) often yield negative results, prompting the study of various biomarkers to predict the presence of bacteremia.
  • A study of 13,752 children found that while blood culture was positive in only 3.6% of cases, levels of absolute neutrophils count (ANC), C-reactive protein (CRP), and procalcitonin (PCT) were significantly higher in those with bacteremia.
  • Of the biomarkers tested, PCT was the most reliable for predicting bacteremia, outperforming white blood cell counts, and CRP stood out as the best routinely available biomarker for this condition.
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  • The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of different oral therapies for treating febrile urinary tract infections (FUTI) caused by ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in children, particularly focusing on the Amoxicillin-clavulanate/cefixime combination.
  • Researchers analyzed data from children under 18 who participated in a prior study, looking at recurrence rates of infections within one month of treatment.
  • Results showed no significant difference in recurrence rates among treatments (cotrimoxazole, ciprofloxacin, and AC-cefixime) and indicated that 97.6% of the responsible bacteria were susceptible to the AC-cefixime combination, suggesting it is a viable treatment option.
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  • The study investigates how multi-drug resistant Enterobacterales affect the effectiveness of oral antibiotics for treating febrile urinary tract infections (FUTIs) in children, focusing on β-lactamase profiles and genotypes.
  • A total of 251 ESBL-producing Enterobacterales isolates were analyzed for their susceptibility to various antibiotics, revealing that all were resistant to cefixime and cefpodoxime but that the combination of cefixime with amoxicillin/clavulanate restored susceptibility in most cases.
  • The findings suggest that cefixime combined with amoxicillin/clavulanate is an effective treatment option, with no failures reported, and mecillinam combined with amoxicillin/clavulanate is recommended as an
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Background: IGEDEPP (Interaction of Gene and Environment of Depression during PostPartum) is a prospective multicenter cohort study of 3310 Caucasian women who gave birth between 2011 and 2016, with follow-up until one year postpartum. The aim of the current study is to describe the cohort and estimate the prevalence and cumulative incidence of early and late-onset postpartum depression (PPD).

Methods: Socio-demographic data, personal and family psychiatric history, as well as stressful life events during childhood and pregnancy were evaluated at baseline.

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Background: Rare diseases may result in motor impairment, which in turn may affect parenthood. Our purpose was to evaluate perinatal outcomes, parenting needs, mother-infant interactions and infant development in a set of volunteer women with motor impairment due to a rare disease. In a parenting support institution, we recruited a consecutive series of 22 volunteer pregnant women or young mothers, recorded perinatal outcomes, and followed mother-infant interaction and relationship and infant development up to 14 months postpartum.

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Motherese, or emotional infant directed speech (IDS), is the specific form of speech used by parents to address their infants. The prosody of IDS has affective properties, expresses caregiver involvement, is a marker of caregiver-infant interaction quality. IDS prosodic characteristics can be detected with automatic analysis.

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Objective: To identify risk factors for early- and late-onset postpartum depression (PPD) among a wide range of variables, including sociodemographic characteristics, childhood trauma, stressful life events during pregnancy and history of personal and family psychiatric disorders, and to assess the contribution of each risk factor.

Design: Nested case-control study in a prospective longitudinal cohort study.

Setting: Eight maternity departments in the Paris metropolitan area, France.

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Background: The extent to which very young children contribute to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is unclear. We aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in daycare centres that remained open for key workers' children during a nationwide lockdown in France.

Methods: Children and staff who attended one of 22 daycare centres during a nationwide lockdown in France (between March 15 and May 9, 2020) were included in this cross-sectional, multicentre, seroprevalence study.

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Introduction/objectives: To determine vaccination coverage among a French cohort of children with recurrent autoinflammatory fever syndromes (RFS).

Method: All RFS children aged 2 to 19 years from the Juvenile Inflammatory Rheumatism cohort and followed at the French Reference Center for Autoinflammatory Diseases, Versailles Hospital, were included in our observational study. Immunisation status at ages 2, 7 and 15 years and at the last outpatient visit was evaluated according to the standard French vaccine schedule and recommended supplementary vaccines for patients with immunosuppressive therapy.

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  • A study called COVIPREG in France looks at how many pregnant women had COVID-19 during delivery and how it affects them and their babies.
  • The study tested 529 pregnant women at a hospital to see how many had antibodies against the virus; only 25 women tested positive, making it about 4.7% of the group.
  • The findings show that, four months into the pandemic in Paris, not many pregnant women had the virus, which is important for future research on COVID-19 effects during pregnancy.
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