Publications by authors named "Isabelle Serres"
Introduction: Study aims were to evaluate the elastic properties of vascular substitutes frequently used for pulmonary artery (PA) replacement, and then to compare their compliance and stiffness indexes to those of human PA.
Methods: A bench-test pulsatile flow experiment was developed to perfuse human cadaveric vascular substitutes (PA, thoracic aorta, human pericardial conduit), bovine pericardial conduit, and prosthetic vascular substitutes (polytetrafluorethylene and Dacron grafts) at a flow and low pulsed pressure mimicking pulmonary circulation. Intraluminal pressure was measured.
Background And Objectives: To assess lung ultrasound for the diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory complications in thoracic surgery.
Methods: Prospective observational study in a University hospital, single institution. Adult patients scheduled for pulmonary resection surgery excluding pneumonectomy.
Background And Objectives: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a frequent cause of neuropathic pain of the upper limb. Surgery is often proposed in second-line treatment, leading to an expected decrease in analgesic drug consumption. The main objective of this study was to investigate the variations in analgesic drug prescriptions, with a special focus on constant or increasing prescription patterns, before and after surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Weaning from mechanical ventilation is associated with the presence of asynchronies between the patient and the ventilator. The main objective of the present study was to demonstrate a decrease in the total number of patient-ventilator asynchronies in invasively ventilated patients for whom difficulty in weaning is expected by comparing neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) and pressure support ventilation (PSV) ventilatory modes.
Methods: We performed a prospective, non-randomized, non-interventional, single-center study.
Knee arthroplasty remains the gold standard in the treatment of severe osteoarthritis. Chronic postoperative pain has been reported with a prevalence ranging from 15% to 47%. The aim of this study was to compare analgesic drug consumption before and after surgery as an indicator of pain after knee surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of bare-metal stenting of the thoracoabdominal aorta in a human ex vivo model of acute type B aortic dissection and the impact of this approach on the patency of the visceral and renal arteries.
Methods: Fifteen human cadaveric aortas were harvested. Type B aortic dissections were surgically initiated 2 cm below the left subclavian artery.
Objective: To report a new human ex vivo model of type B aortic dissection (TBAD) and to assess if the locations of the primary entry tear determine the patterns of dissection propagation.
Methods: Twenty fresh human aortas were harvested. TBADs were surgically initiated 2 cm below the left subclavian artery at four different locations (lateral, n = 5; medial, n = 5; anterior, n = 5; posterior, n = 5).
Background: Gabapentin and pregabalin are widely used as antineuropathic pain drugs. Their use is also associated with the development of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), mainly neuropsychiatric.
Objective: The aim of this work was to study 'serious' and/or 'unexpected' adverse reactions associated with pregabalin and gabapentin.