Publications by authors named "Julien Jacobs"
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- Patients with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) experience persistent pain following a herpes zoster infection, with a significant portion of those affected suffering from a reduced quality of life and challenging treatment options.
- The review highlights the effectiveness of antiviral therapy within 72 hours of symptom onset as crucial for managing acute herpes zoster pain, alongside analgesics and various medications.
- For patients who do not respond to conventional treatments, newer interventional techniques, particularly pulsed radiofrequency treatment of the dorsal root ganglion, show promise in alleviating pain associated with PHN.
Purpose: The extended role of breast-conserving surgery (BCS) in the neoadjuvant setting may raise concerns on the oncologic safety of BCS compared to mastectomy. This study compared long-term outcomes after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) between patients treated with BCS and mastectomy.
Methods: All breast cancer patients treated with NAC from 2008 until 2017 at the Amphia Hospital (the Netherlands) were included.
Background: Anti-malarial treatments effectiveness remains a critical challenge for control programmes. However, when drug efficacy is established, the dose is calculated based on a predefined weight according to the patient age. Based on the hypothesis that the standard assumption of weight according to the age when administering the drug could lead to a therapeutic failure potentially due to under-dosing (in the case of overweight) or over-dosing (in case of underweight).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The current study aimed to identify factors that could predict attrition in youths starting ambulatory treatment to control or lose weight.
Design: Retrospective longitudinal study.
Setting: Paediatric clinic: ambulatory treatment programme.
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- The study investigates the effectiveness of various anthropometric measures like waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio alongside BMI in predicting cardiometabolic risks in overweight and obese youths aged 7-17.
- Adding just one additional measure (like waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio) to BMI significantly improved the prediction of several risk factors such as insulin resistance, cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure.
- The findings suggest that incorporating these additional measures can enhance the assessment of health risks in children and adolescents, indicating that BMI alone may not provide a complete picture.
Menière's disease and vestibular migraine (VM) are the most common causes of spontaneous recurrent vertigo. The current diagnostic criteria for the two disorders are mainly based on patients' symptoms, and no biological marker is available. When applying these criteria, an overlap of the two disorders is occasionally observed in clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the effect of early oral stimulation before the introduction of oral feeding, over the duration of concomitant tube feeding ("transition period"), the length of hospital stay and the breastfeeding rates upon discharge in preterm infants.
Study Design: Preterm infants born between 26 and 33 weeks gestational age (n=86), were randomized into an intervention and control group. Infants in the intervention group received an oral stimulation program consisting in stimulation of the oral structures for 15 min at least for 10 days, before introduction of oral feeding.