Association between Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Hearing Loss with Impaired Speech Recognition: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Studies have identified a greater risk of sensory neural hearing loss in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) compared to healthy individuals, but it is unclear whether they are at increased risk of hearing loss with impaired speech recognition. The aim of this study was to assess whether COPD is associated with hearing loss that affects speech recognition.

Methods: This is a case-control study.

Late Post-Dissection Dynamic Intermittent Malperfusion of the Aortic Arch in Association with a Rare Heterogenous LOX Gene Variation.

Late ischaemic consequences of type A aortic dissection are rare. We present a 6-year late complication of type A aortic dissection treated by Bentall surgery in a 41-year-old patient. The patient presented with several episodes of lipothymia associated with hypertensive attacks with anisotension, cervicalgia, hemicranial headache, abdominal pain and lower limb slipping initially on exertion and later at rest.

Symptomatic Carotid Free-Floating Thrombus: About Management of 50 Cases in a Referral Neurovascular Center.

Background: Carotid free-floating thrombus (CFFT) is an uncommon disorder. The aim of this study was to describe a French cohort of CFFT patients.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective monocentric study from a Stroke Center among patients admitted for stroke with CFFT.

Evaluating the relationship between the type of rescue medication and the adequacy of asthma maintenance therapy.

Introduction: Current guidelines incorporate the option of a rapid onset bronchodilator (ROB) plus an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) for the relief of asthma symptoms, but there is doubt whether the combined therapy for relief could lead to suboptimal maintenance therapy since individuals might prefer it to the maintenance therapy. The objective of this study was to assess whether the type of rescue medication that the individual with asthma has available is associated with suboptimal maintenance therapy.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included non-smokers with asthma, ≥12 years old.