Publications by authors named "Guillaume Vesin"
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- A 53-year-old woman with no prior medical history experienced acute sacroiliitis due to tricuspid endocarditis, leading to intense pain and fever.
- A CT scan confirmed the right sacroiliitis, while an MRI and transesophageal echocardiography revealed a large mobile tricuspid vegetation and septic emboli in the lungs.
- The patient showed clinical improvement after 6 weeks of antibiotic treatment, and this is the first reported case of such a bone and joint infection in Latin America.
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- The study estimates that 38 to 63% of the general population has been exposed to chikungunya virus (CHIKV) after epidemics, with significant long-term effects despite low fatality rates.
- Conducted at Cayenne General Hospital in French Guiana, the study tracked chronic musculoskeletal pain in patients with confirmed CHIKV infections over 3 and 6 months, finding that 40.2% and 31.3% experienced such pain, respectively.
- The findings suggest that while chronic pain following CHIKV infection is prevalent, it appears to be less severe in the Amazonian region compared to affected population in the Indian Ocean islands, where the overall demographic is older.
Background: The preventive treatment of Plasmodium vivax relapse recommended by the World Health Organization is primaquine at a dose of 15 mg/day for 14 days, except for malaria cases from Asia and Oceania. Since 2006, CDC recommends the use of primaquine at 30 mg/day for 14 days. In France, all cases of malaria due to P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Identifying patients at risk of developing severe dengue is challenging. The objective of the present study was to determine the incidence of hypotension and its predictive factors during the Dengue 2 epidemic in 2013.
Methods: In 2013, a longitudinal study was performed using data from all confirmed cases of dengue seen in Cayenne General Hospital.
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a thrombotic microangiopathy associated to severe ADAMTS13 deficiency. It has been linked to various viral infections. Among arboviruses, only Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever and dengue fever have been linked to this severe disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The frequency, the clinical characteristics, and the prognosis of dengue is highly variable. Dengue fever is associated with a range of neurological manifestations. The objective of the present study was to determine the incidence of neurological signs and their predictive factors using data from cases of dengue seen and followed in Cayenne Hospital during the Dengue 2 epidemic in 2013.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The objective of the study was to determine the incidence of transaminase elevation during dengue, and its predictive factors.
Methods: In 2013, a longitudinal study was performed using data from all cases of dengue seen in Cayenne Hospital. Cox proportional modeling was used.