The experience of a program combining two complementary therapies for women with breast cancer: An IPSE qualitative study.

Introduction: The use of complementary therapies within oncology is a clinical issue, and their evaluation a methodological challenge. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study exploring the lived experience of a French program of complementary therapies combining structured physical activity and MBSR among women with breast cancer.

Methods: This French exploratory qualitative study followed the five stages of the Inductive Process to analyze the Structure of lived Experience (IPSE) approach.

Cross-sectional study to describe allergic rhinitis flare-ups and associated airways phenotype in house dust mite sensitization.

Objectives: To quantify and describe flare-ups of house dust mite allergic rhinitis (HDM-AR) which had occurred during the last 12 months in a population of adults and children candidate for Allergen ImmunoTherapy (AIT). Next, to identify associated clinical features.

Materials And Methods: This was an observational, multicenter, cross-sectional study that included patients aged ≥ 5 years with HDM-AR eligible for AIT and without prior AIT for at least 12 months.

Clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study among child and adolescent psychiatrists across the world.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has directly impacted the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, affecting all aspects of the lives of children and their families and increasing their risk of distress and mental health issues, especially among children with preexisting psychiatric disorders. Child and adolescent psychiatrists (CAPs) across the world have had to adapt their practice, due to lockdown and social distancing measures. This study aimed to explore how CAPs experienced their clinical practice in these singular conditions.

High prevalence and impact on the quality of life of facial lipoatrophy and other abnormalities in fat tissue distribution in HIV-infected patients treated with antiretroviral therapy.

Few data report the prevalence in actual clinical settings of lipodystrophy (LD), and in particular of facial lipoatrophy (LA), in HIV-infected patients treated with long-term antiretroviral therapy (ART). A French, multicenter, cross-sectional, observational study was conducted in HIV-infected patients on continuous ART for more than 12 months. The main objective was to assess the prevalence of facial LA in this population.

Safety and tolerability of an SQ-standardized GRAss ALlergy immunotherapy tablet (GRAZAX®) in a real-life setting for three consecutive seasons - the GRAAL trial.

Background And Objectives: GRAZAX(®) (Phleum Pratense, 75,000 SQ-T/2,800 BAU, ALK, Denmark), an SQ-standardized grass allergy sublingual immunotherapy tablet for the desensitization of grass pollen-induced rhinoconjunctivitis, has been developed to facilitate patient access to specific immunotherapy (SIT), while minimizing the risk of serious treatment-related adverse events. As a minimum duration of 3 years is recommended for SIT treatment, the GRAAL trial aimed to assess the safety profile of GRAZAX(®) in real-world conditions during long-term treatment of patients with grass pollen-induced allergic rhinoconjunctivitis (ARC).

Methods: A multicentre, prospective, open-label, observational trial was conducted over three consecutive grass pollen seasons from November 2007 to October 2010 in France.

Acute respiratory illness as a trigger for detecting chronic bronchitis in adults at risk of COPD: a primary care survey.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of chronic bronchitis in patients identified among subjects at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but currently free from any known chronic respiratory disorder, visiting a general practitioner for an acute respiratory episode.

Method: A multicentre, cross-sectional survey carried out in primary care.

Results: Primary care practitioners (n = 772) examined 14,030 patients with acute cough (male: 56.

Refractive index sensing characteristics of dual resonance long period gratings in bare and metal-coated D-shaped fibers.

We present a theoretical study of the ambient refractive index sensing characteristics of long period gratings in bare and metal-coated D-shaped fibers. An equivalent rectangular core waveguide method based on the first-order perturbation theory has been used to study the modal behavior of the waveguide. Power coupling corresponding to dual resonance in both cases has been investigated, and an optimum metal thickness giving maximum sensitivity has been found to exist.

Bragg grating based biochemical sensor using submicron Si/SiO2 waveguides for lab-on-a-chip applications: a novel design.

A novel biochemical sensor based on a submicrometer size, high core-cladding index difference, silica core Si-SiO(2) waveguide with a Bragg grating written in its cladding region is proposed and analyzed. Waveguide parameters are optimized to obtain maximum sensitivity, and for lower refractive index samples, an optimum core width is found to exist for both the TE and the TM mode configurations. Owing to the high index contrast at the Si-SiO(2) interface, the structure is much more sensitive while operating in the TM mode configuration, showing extremely high sensitivity [200-740 nm refractive index units (RIU)] for the ambient refractive indices between 1.

Specklegram in a grapefruit fiber and its response to external mechanical disturbance in a single-multiple-single mode fiber structure.

Specklegram in multimode fiber has successfully been used as a sensor for detecting mechanical disturbance. Speckles in a multimode pure silica grapefruit fiber are observed and compared to that of a step-index multimode fiber, showing different features between them. The sensitivities to external disturbance of two kinds of fiber were measured, based on single-multiple-single mode (SMS) fiber structure.

Efficient fabrication of fused-fiber biconical taper structures by a scanned CO2 laser beam technique.

The driving mechanism of a scanning mirror can cause significant impairment of expanded beam properties, which we investigated for several scanning waveforms. Engineering on the scanning waveform is then carried out by a scanned CO2 laser beam technique to enlarge the uniform heating region for stretching and sintering of silica fibers. Details of the derivation are given.

Long-term results of endovascular exclusion of extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysms and dissecting aneurysm.

Objectives: Surgery remains the standard option to treat symptomatic or complicated aneurysms of the extracranial internal carotid arteries (EICA). When located more distally to the EICA, surgery appears to be very invasive and disabling. Endovascular treatment of high aneurysmal EICA has been poorly reported.