Preseptal Versus Orbital Cellulitis in Children: An Observational Study.

Background: Preseptal and orbital cellulitis are two types of infection surrounding the orbital septum with very different potential outcomes. Our aim was to describe key differential features of both conditions, laying special emphasis on diagnostic and therapeutic tools.

Methods: A retrospective review of patients admitted to a tertiary hospital over a 15-year period (January 2004-October 2019) was conducted.

Soft tissue augmentation at immediate implants using a novel xenogeneic collagen matrix in conjunction with immediate provisional restorations: A prospective case series.

Background: Collagen matrices used around immediate implants may reduce morbidity although there is limited evidence on their performance.

Purpose: To evaluate soft and hard tissue changes when combining immediate implants, hard and soft tissue grafting, and an immediate provisional restoration.

Material And Methods: In 12 patients, immediate implants were placed in the anterior maxillary and first premolar area together with a xenogeneic bone substitute.

Women with urinary incontinence in Spain: Health-related quality of life and the use of healthcare resources.

Objectives: To describe Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and healthcare resource utilization in women aged 60 and over in Spain.

Design: Descriptive analysis of primary data from the Spanish National Health Survey, 2012.

Main Outcome Measures: Utility indices were obtained through the EQ5D5L questionnaire included in the survey, and utilization rates of consultations, hospitalizations, emergency services, and medication intake.

Economic impact of onabotulinumtoxinA for overactive bladder with urinary incontinence in Europe.

Background: Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common condition that has a significant impact on patients' health-related quality-of-life and is associated with a substantial economic burden to healthcare systems. OnabotulinumtoxinA has a well-established efficacy and safety profile as a treatment for OAB; however, the economic impact of using onabotulinumtoxinA has not been well described.

Methods: An economic model was developed to assess the budget impact associated with OAB treatment in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, using onabotulinumtoxinA alongside best supportive care (BSC)-comprising incontinence pads and/or anticholinergic use and/or clean intermittent catheterisation (CIC)-vs BSC alone.

[Syphilis and pregnancy: study of 94 cases].

Background And Objective: To study the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment strategies and perinatal outcomes of gestational syphilis.

Patients And Method: We performed a retrospective study of 94 pregnant women with syphilis whose gestation and delivery were monitored in a Department of Obstetrics from 2002 to 2010 among a total of 85,806 births of women without syphilis in the same period.

Results: The prevalence of gestational syphilis was 0.

Demonstration of low latency Intra/Inter Data-Centre heterogeneous optical sub-wavelength network using extended GMPLS-PCE control-plane.

This paper reports on the first user/application-driven multi-technology optical sub-wavelength network for intra/inter Data-Centre (DC) communications. Two DCs each with distinct sub-wavelength switching technologies, frame based synchronous TSON and packet based asynchronous OPST are interconnected by a WSON inter-DC communication. The intra/inter DC testbed demonstrates ultra-low latency (packet-delay <270 µs and packet-delay-variation (PDV)<10 µs) flexible data-rate traffic transfer by point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and multipoint-to-(multi)point connectivity, highly suitable for cloud based applications and high performance computing (HPC).

[Tuberculosis outbreak in a primary school: description and reflections on the value of gastric juice in the management of micro-epidemics].

Aims: To describe a tuberculosis outbreak in a primary school arising from a secondary case.

Methods: Contact study and clinical study of exposed patients. Chest x-ray, gastric aspirate processing, and clinical evaluation of all children with a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) were recorded.

Coronary involvement in infants with Kawasaki disease treated with intravenous gamma-globulin.

Aim: To analyze the clinical spectrum and the incidence of coronary involvement in infants with typical Kawasaki's disease (KD).

Patients And Methods: A retrospective study was performed on children one year of age or younger diagnosed from February 1992 to January 2006 with typical KD. Children with incomplete forms of the disease were not included.

Intra-abdominal pressure as a marker of severity in acute pancreatitis.

Background: Acute pancreatitis is one of the main causes of intra-abdominal hypertension, which may lead to multiple physiologic alterations. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between acute pancreatitis and intra-abdominal hypertension, and to evaluate the utility of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) as a marker of severity in acute pancreatitis.

Methods: From July 2002 to July 2004, 45 patients admitted for acute pancreatitis were included in this prospective, observational study.