Description of an alternative method for the electrodiagnostic evaluation of the sensory radial nerve.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe an alternative method for the electrodiagnostic (EDX) evaluation of the sensory radial nerve (SRN).

Methods: In this retrospective study, all patients from a French EDX center (November 2022-April 2023) for whom SNAP amplitudes of the same SRN were obtained through both a conventional and an alternative method were included. In the conventional method, the active recording electrode was placed at the base of the snuff box, whereas in the alternative method, it was placed 3-4 cm proximally on the lateral border of the radial bone.

Genetic identification and reiterated captures suggest that the El Pachón cavefish population is closed and declining.

The sizes of blind cavefish populations of North-East Mexico are demographic parameters of great importance for investigating a variety of ecological, evolutionary, and conservation issues. However, few estimates have been obtained. For these mobile animals living in an environment difficult to explore as a whole, methods based on capture-mark-recapture are appropriate, but their feasibility and interpretation of results depend on several assumptions that must be carefully examined.

Visual Outcomes Following Plasma Exchange for Optic Neuritis: An International Multicenter Retrospective Analysis of 395 Optic Neuritis Attacks.

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of plasma exchange (PLEX) for optic neuritis (ON).

Methods: We conducted an international multicenter retrospective study evaluating the outcomes of ON following PLEX. Outcomes were compared to raw data from the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial (ONTT) using a matched subset.

Time to steroids impacts visual outcome of optic neuritis in MOGAD.

Background: To characterise the response to treatment of inaugural optic neuritis (ON) in patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD).

Methods: We searched the French MOGAD database for adults with inaugural ON with a detailed report of acute treatment modalities and measures of high-contrast best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at nadir and after 3 months. Predictors of visual outcomes were assessed by multivariable analysis.

Daily Green Tea Infusions in Hypercalciuric Renal Stone Patients: No Evidence for Increased Stone Risk Factors or Oxalate-Dependent Stones.

Green tea is widely used as a ''healthy'' beverage due to its high level of antioxidant polyphenol compounds. However tea is also known to contain significant amount of oxalate. The objective was to determine, in a cross-sectional observational study among a population of 273 hypercalciuric stone-formers referred to our center for metabolic evaluation, whether daily green tea drinkers ( = 41) experienced increased stone risk factors (especially for oxalate) compared to non-drinkers.

Location, extent, and multifocality of positive surgical margins for biochemical recurrence prediction after radical prostatectomy.

Purpose: To study the prognostic value of extent, number, and location of positive surgical margins (PSM).

Methods: A total of 1,504 consecutive adjuvant treatment naive and node-negative radical prostatectomy men were included in a prospective database including extent, number, and location of PSM. Mean follow-up was 33 months.

[Pathological calcifications: a medical diagnosis based on their physicochemical properties].

This paper gathers different investigations dedicated to pathological calcifications made of apatite in order to define the structural characteristics, which display a clinical significance. Such approach helps the clinician to define the characterisation tools, which have to be combined to obtain such structural characteristics in order to establish a possible relationship between the structural characteristics of the pathological calcifications and the disease. The fact that it is now possible to perform such experiments at the subcellular scale gives new opportunities for a large number of diseases associated to pathological calcification.

Long-term impact of positive surgical margins on biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: ten years of follow-up.

Objective: Positive surgical margins (PSMs) in men undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer are associated with an increased risk of biochemical recurrence. This study evaluated the long-term (>10 year) impact of PSMs on biochemical recurrence after RP in adjuvant treatment-naïve pT2-pT4 N0 men and determined predictors of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) failure.

Material And Methods: The institutional registry of 1276 patients who underwent RP at Henri Mondor Hospital from 1988 to 2001 was reviewed, identifying 403 patients with regular follow-up at the time of analysis.

Modified supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy for large kidney and ureteral stones: technique and results.

Background: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is the standard treatment for kidney stones >2cm. Recently, a novel approach in the modified supine lithotomy position has been developed.

Objective: To demonstrate with a video our technique of supine PCNL (sPCNL) and present our experience.

Fluoroscopy-guided renal access in supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

Objective: To describe a standardized and easily reproducible method for fluoroscopy-guided renal access during supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy (sPCNL).

Patients And Methods: From January 2009 to January 2010, 35 patients underwent sPCNL. In 10 patients, ultrasound-guided puncture was unsuccessful.

Abdominal compartment syndrome due to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adults.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) improves the outcome of refractory cardiogenic shock. Few studies in adult populations have specifically addressed the complications of ECMO. Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) has been previously described in the pediatric literature, but it has never been directly attributed to ECMO alone.

Promising functional outcomes obtained with robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty: a single-center experience.

Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of robot-assisted pyeloplasty in patients with clinically symptomatic ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO).

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed our database for all patients who were treated for UPJO by a single surgeon using a robot-assisted procedure between 2005 and 2007. We collected the following: Patient age, clinical presentation, perioperative data, complications, length of hospital stay, and outcome.