Therapeutic impact of basic critical care echocardiography performed by residents after limited training.

Background: The objective was to assess the agreement between therapeutic proposals derived from basic critical care echocardiography performed by novice operators in ultrasonography after a limited training (residents) and by experts considered as reference. Secondary objectives were to assess the agreement between operators' answers to simple clinical questions and the concordance between basic two-dimensional measurements.

Methods: This observational, prospective, single-center study was conducted over a 3-year period in a medical-surgical intensive care unit.

[Hypoglycaemic coma revealing a malignant recurrence during Doege-Potter syndrome].

Introduction: The Doege-Potter syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome, first described by Doege and Potter in 1930, that usually involves solid fibrous pleural tumours. Hypoglycaemia is a rare complication of these tumours, due to secretion of insulin-like growth factors, and it can be the presenting symptom. The incidence of malignancy is low, about 12-15 %.

Bortezomib-induced bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.

Introduction. Bortezomib is a proteasome inhibitor indicated for the treatment of multiple myeloma patients. The most frequent side effects are gastrointestinal and neurological.

[The Lady Windermere syndrome: clinical and bacteriological data and progress in seven cases].

Described by Reich and Johnson in 1992 [2], the Lady Windermere syndrome occurs exclusively in non-smoking women over the age of 60 years, without significant pre-existing pulmonary disease. It comprises bronchial dilatation, typically in the middle lobe and lingula, together with secondary infection by atypical mycobacteria (Mycobacterium avium in the first cases). Among the 17 cases of atypical mycobacterial infection that we have seen in the past 14 years, there were seven cases of this syndrome.