Publications by authors named "Ezzedine H"

The authors describe the case of two girls diagnosed of ovarian torsion secondary to a cyst. They were operated on by conservative ovarian therapy regardless the time of evolution and ovary macroscopical aspect. These 2 patients were 9 and 13 years old, with abdominal colic pain of 48 and 36 hours of evolution.

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It has been suggested that central venous catheters impregnated with antiseptics such as chlohexidine and silver-sulfadiazine reduce the risk of catheter-related bacteraemia in intensive care patients. Patients suffering from haematologic malignancy treated by chemotherapy through a central venous catheter are at even greater risk of catheter-related bacteraemia. A prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial was performed in order to investigate the effectiveness of chlorhexidine and silver-sulfadiazine impregnated catheters (CH-SS) in these patients.

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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction genome fingerprinting based on repetitive chromosomal sequences (rep-PCR) were used for typing 14 strains of Ochrobactrum anthropi. Six strains isolated during an outbreak of bacteraemia in patients who had received a contaminated rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin gave identical patterns by both techniques. Different patterns were found in sporadic and reference strains, except for one clinical isolate received from another hospital that showed the same pattern as the epidemic clone.

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In Staphylococcus aureus, mecA and femA are the genetic determinants of methicillin resistance. By using a multiplex PCR strategy, 310- and 686-bp regions of the mecA and femA genes, respectively, were coamplified to identify susceptible (lacking mecA) and resistant (mecA+) staphylococci and to differentiate S. aureus (femA+) from coagulase-negative staphylococci (lacking femA).

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Nosocomial bacteraemia caused by Ochrobactrum anthropi occurred over a 1-month period in five organ transplant recipients, four of whom were in the same renal and pancreatic transplant unit. Bacteraemia occurred with cyclosporin A, azathioprine and steroids, and with a rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (RATG) during the induction phase. RATG appeared to be the only common factor among the five cases.

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Controversies remain about the bacteriologic aspects of intraoperative blood salvage despite the widespread use of this technique. In this prospective study, intraoperative salvaged blood was cultured in 401 patients, according to a direct plating technique. Bacterial growth was detected in 12.

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The authors believe that the greater part of chronic cervicofacial adenitis actually observed in our hospitals, are not caused by M. tuberculosis or M. bovis but by scrofulaceum mycobacterium, M.

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The Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney is the most frequent renal congenital anomaly and the second most common cause of an abdominal mass in the newborn. Traditionally, since this pathological entity was described as such by Spene in 1955, early resection has been deemed its best treatment. In the last decade, a conservative approach has been advocated by some authors, except for the patients presenting with concomitant abdominal pain or infection.

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