Publications by authors named "Emmanuelle Papleux"
Background And Objectives: Azithromycin was rapidly adopted as a repurposed drug to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) early in the pandemic. We aimed to evaluate its efficacy in patients hospitalised for COVID-19.
Methods: In a series of randomised, open-label, phase 2 proof-of-concept, multicentre clinical trials (Direct Antivirals Working against the novel coronavirus (DAWn)), several treatments were compared with standard of care.
Objectives: Scarce data are currently available on the kinetics of antibodies after vaccination with mRNA vaccines as a whole and, with mRNA-1273, in particular. We report here an ad-interim analysis of data obtained after a 6-month follow-up in a cohort of healthcare workers (HCWs) who received the mRNA-1273 vaccine. These new data provide more insight into whether and in whom a 3rd dose could be necessary.
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- Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a medical test that isn't usually used for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients who aren't critically ill; they usually use a nasal swab or chest scans instead.
- A study looked at whether BAL could help in these patients who had negative nasal swabs but were suspected to have the infection during the COVID-19 peak in Belgium.
- The study found that BAL helped diagnose 14 patients with the virus and led to changes in treatment for many others, especially those with weaker immune systems, without causing harm to either patients or medical staff.
: Ectopic Cushing's syndrome is a very rare condition caused by an ACTH-secreting tumor outside the pituitary or adrenal glands, and the majority of these cases are encountered in the context of paraneoplastic syndromes. The ectopic source of ACTH secretion is not always obvious to detection and can be challenging. We report a rare case, in which a hidden ACTH-secreting carcinoid tumor of the lung caused a severe refractory hypokalemia, leading us to a race against time to locate the tumor.
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