Publications by authors named "H Salhi"
Primary pulmonary abscess is a rare but serious localized bacterial infection of the lung parenchyma, occurring without prior lung conditions like bronchiectasis or necrotizing pneumonia. We report the case of an 11-month-old child with a 22-day history of productive cough and fever, unresponsive to initial antibiotics. Clinical examination showed a stable, eupneic child with mild fever and reduced oxygen saturation.
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- - Ovarian tumors in children are rare, occurring at a rate of 2.6 per 100,000, with symptoms often including abdominal pain and the need for thorough diagnostic evaluation using imaging like pelvic ultrasounds.
- - A 15-year-old girl presented with a six-month history of an enlarging abdominal mass and negative tumor markers, leading to an ultrasound and MRI that revealed a large cystic mass occupying her abdomen and pelvis.
- - She underwent laparoscopic surgery to remove the cyst, which involved draining 6 liters of fluid and preserving part of her left ovary; follow-up care is ongoing.
Objectives: Clinical judgment (CJ) encompasses clinical reasoning (process of evaluating a problem) and clinical decision-making (choice made). A theoretical model to better define emergency medical services (EMS) CJ has been developed but its use has not been evaluated in EMS training and assessments. Our objective was to evaluate the performance of this EMS CJ model to assess clinical reasoning and decision-making in a simulated environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPheochromocytomas are tumors that develop from the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. More than 40% of cases of pheochromocytomas are associated with genetic conditions such as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) or von Hippel-Lindau syndrome. Cystic pheochromocytomas are rare, generally asymptomatic, and thus of bigger size at the time of diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Among the different types of pain related to Parkinson's disease (PD), parkinsonian central pain (PCP) is the most disabling.
Objectives: We investigated the analgesic efficacy of two therapeutic strategies (opioid with oxycodone- prolonged-release (PR) and higher dose of levodopa/benserazide) compared with placebo in patients with PCP.
Methods: OXYDOPA was a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, placebo-controlled, multicenter parallel-group trial run at 15 centers within the French NS-Park network.