Venous Thromboembolism at Low Risk of Recurrence in Young Women: Stress and Violence Associated with Recurrence. An International Case-Control Study.

Background:  In young women with venous thromboembolism (VTE) related to weak transient risk factors, it remains unknown whether stress levels and intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with recurrence. The VTE-WEAK study aims to investigate the association between perceived stress and IPV with a recurrence of VTE in women with a first episode of VTE due to combined oral contraceptives, pregnancy-puerperium, minor trauma/fracture, brief surgery, infection or brief immobility, and not using antithrombotic prophylaxis.

Material And Methods:  We performed a multicenter, international, observational, retrospective study on women referred for thrombophilia screening who were subsequently monitored.

Intimate partner violence as a risk factor for venous thromboembolism in women on combined oral contraceptives: An international matched case-control study.

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) targeting women is probably underestimated during a woman's lifetime. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a multifactorial disease associated with haemostasis-activating conditions. Minor injuries can trigger VTE.

Combined oral contraceptive-associated venous thromboembolism revealing an antiphospholipid syndrome: International retrospective study of outcomes.

Introduction: Limitations in the data used to define thromboprophylaxis for patients with antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLAbs) and thrombosis include uncertainties after an initial provoked venous thromboembolic event (VTE). We aimed to study such cases associated with combined oral contraceptive (COC) intake.

Methods: We retrospectively analysed thrombotic outcomes after a first COC-associated VTE and positive aPLAbs, with a low risk HERDOO2 score, on low-dose aspirin (LDA) secondary thromboprophylaxis, seen from 2010 to 2021 in 3 tertiary referral centres, one in France and 2 in Russia.

Pregnancy after Combined Oral Contraceptive-Associated Venous Thromboembolism: An International Retrospective Study of Outcomes.

Background:  Few data are available on thrombotic outcomes during pregnancy and puerperium occurring after an initial provoked venous thromboembolic (VTE) event.

Objectives:  To describe thrombotic outcomes during pregnancy after a first combined oral contraceptive (COC)-associated VTE and the factors associated with recurrence.

Methods:  This was an international multicentric retrospective study on patients referred for thrombophilia screening from January 1, 2010 to January 1, 2021 following a first COC-associated VTE, including women with neither inherited thrombophilia nor antiphospholipid antibodies and focusing on those who had a subsequent pregnancy under the same thromboprophylaxis treatment.

Performance of the Wells score in predicting deep vein thrombosis in medical and surgical hospitalized patients with or without thromboprophylaxis: The R-WITT study.

The Wells score had shown weak performance to determine pre-test probability of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) for inpatients. So, we evaluated the impact of thromboprophylaxis on the utility of the Wells score for risk stratification of inpatients with suspected DVT. This bicentric cross-sectional study from February 1, 2018 to January 31, 2019 included consecutive medical and surgical inpatients who underwent lower limb ultrasound study for suspected DVT.

Characteristics and outcomes of asthmatic patients with COVID-19 pneumonia who require hospitalisation.

Background: Viral respiratory infections are the main causes of asthma exacerbation. The susceptibility of patients with asthma to develop an exacerbation when they present with severe pneumonia due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is unknown. The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics and outcomes of asthmatic patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia who required hospitalisation during the spring 2020 outbreak in Paris, France.

[Nursing coordination in chronic diseases: The situation of activities in the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris adult medicine units].

Introduction: The transformation of nurse's profession can be an opportunity for the organization of personalized care pathways for patients with chronic diseases.

Objective: Our objective was to identify and describe the activities of the coordinating nurses (IDEC) working with patients with chronic diseases in adult medicine services at the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP).

Method: An e-mail survey of department heads identified the IDEC.

The role of radiotherapy as salvage and/or consolidation treatment in relapsed/refractory and high-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Objective: Many salvage therapies have been proposed for relapsed/refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphomas or for consolidation in the case of suboptimal response. Radiotherapy (RT) is one modality of salvage therapy, but its place is currently not well defined.

Method: This study reports a retrospective review of patients receiving unplanned radiotherapy for R/R diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) or primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL), or as consolidation therapy after second-line chemotherapy, treated in our hospital.

Compression with a pocket-sized ultrasound device to diagnose proximal deep vein thrombosis.

Introduction: Compression ultrasonography (CUS) is a validated technique for the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT), but has never been studied with pocket-sized ultrasound device (PUD). The main objective of this study was to assess the diagnostic performance of CUS made by emergency physicians (EPs) using a PUD.

Materials: This was a prospective, diagnostic test assessment, single-center study.

Systolic peak foot-to-apex time interval, a novel oscillometric technique for systolic blood pressure measurement.

Background: Noninvasive blood pressure (BP) measurement is essential for the study of human physiology but automatic oscillometric devices only estimate SBP and DBP using various, undisclosed algorithms, precluding standardization and interchangeability. We propose a novel approach by tracking, during pneumatic cuff deflation, the time interval from the foot to the apex of the systolic peak of the oscillometric signal, which reaches a maximum concomitant with the first Korotkoff sound.

Method: In 145 study participants and patients (group 1), we measured the systolic brachial artery blood pressure by Korotkoff sound recording, conventional oscillometry, and our fully automated systolic peak foot-to-apex time interval (SFATI) technique.

An ultrasound look at Korotkoff sounds: the role of pulse wave velocity and flow turbulence.

Aims: The aim of this study was to analyze the temporal relationships between pressure, flow, and Korotkoff sounds, providing clues for their comprehensive interpretation.

Materials And Methods: When measuring blood pressure in a group of 23 volunteers, we used duplex Doppler ultrasonography to assess, under the arm-cuff, the brachial artery flow, diameter changes, and local pulse wave velocity (PWV), while recording Korotkoff sounds 10 cm downstream together with cuff pressure and ECG.

Results: The systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures were 118.