Post-traumatic stress among COVID-19 survivors: A descriptive study of hospitalized first-wave survivors.

Introduction: The coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 1 induces a severe respiratory disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 1 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome infection, increased post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates were described.

Methods: This single-centred, prospective study aimed to evaluate the rates of PTSD in patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19.

Characteristics of B-cell lymphomas in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients during the combined antiretroviral therapy era: an ANRS CO16 LYMPHOVIR cohort study.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is frequent among HIV-infected patients. We describe, the characteristics of 6 HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) included in a prospective cohort study of HIV-related lymphomas. Five of the 6 cases had features of marginal zone/lymphoplasmacytic NHL versus 1 of 33 HIV only-infected patients.

Relevance of fluoroquinolone use in a French teaching hospital.

Objective: The objective of our study was to assess the good use of fluoroquinolone (FQ) in a French teaching hospital by a two round relevance review before and after proposal for better use of FQ prescriptions.

Patients And Methods: The relevance of FQ prescription according to regional guidelines was assessed using a standard card filled out retrospectively by physicians in the 3 previous months, in volunteer hospital wards. Then, two experts checked the relevance of prescriptions according to the regional antibiotherapy guidelines, a book called "Antibioguide", and determined a therapeutic index of adequacy for each card.

Relevance of fluoroquinolone use in hospitals in the Lorraine region of France before and after corrective measures: an investigation by the Antibiolor Network.

Objectives: This study of fluoroquinolone use was carried out before and after an educational intervention run by Antibiolor, a regional network to all hospitals in the Lorraine region of France.

Methods: The relevance of fluoroquinolone prescription according to regional guidelines was assessed using a standard card filled out by physicians and pharmacists at the voluntarily participating hospitals. A therapeutic index of adequacy was established for each card.

Fatal Histoplasma capsulatum mitral endocarditis in a French patient treated for rheumatoid arthritis.

Histoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by the inhalation of Histoplasma capsulatum spores, a fungus encountered in many diverse areas around the world. Although this infection is often asymptomatic, it may become dramatic in immunocompromised patients. In November 2005, an endocarditis due to Histoplasma capsulatum was diagnosed in a French woman treated for rheumatoid arthritis and who had traveled to South America 2 years earlier.

[Impact of corrective measures on fluoroquinolones prescriptions for urinary tract infections during a 2-round relevance study].

Objectives: Evaluating the impact of corrective measures on fluoroquinolones (FQ) prescriptions for urinary tract infections (UTI) during a 2-round relevance study on a regional scale.

Methods: FQ prescriptions of voluntary hospitals were checked by an infectious diseases physician and a pharmacist according to regional guidelines. A first round (R1) took place in January 2008, with feedback and proposal for personalized corrective measures in January 2009.

Clinical and microbiologic features of multivalvular endocarditis.

Multivalvular endocarditis accounts for 15% of all endocarditis. The mechanisms of spread of the infection differs whether endocarditis is only left-sided (involving both the mitral and aortic valves) or bilateral. In left-sided bivalvular endocarditis, it is often a secondary mitral lesion following a primary aortic endocarditis.

[Study of new HIV infection between 2000 and 2007 in the north and east of France].

Unlabelled: In France, since 2003, all new HIV infection must be reported. Data collected with the declaration system is not exhaustive and only concerns epidemiological data.

Objective: The authors' aim was to study the epidemiologic evolution of new HIV cases between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2007 in North and East of France, to compare them with national and local data, to complete them, and to identify local specificities.

Occult hepatitis B infection in patients infected with HIV: report of two cases of hepatitis B reactivation and prevalence in a hospital cohort.

Patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) are particularly at risk of hepatitis B reactivation. Two cases of patients infected with HIV with isolated anti-HBc antibodies who had experienced an HBV reactivation are described. In the two cases HBV reactivation occurred after withdrawal of anti-retroviral treatment with anti-HBV activity from the patients' highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), in accordance with HIV genotypic resistance profiles.

[Relevance of fluoroquinolone use in Lorraine: results of the first survey].

Objectives: The Antibiolor network assessed the good use of fluoroquinolones (FQ) in the French Lorraine region by a relevance review.

Methods: At the beginning of 2008, the experts in voluntary hospitals filled out a standard card mentioning the indication, FQ name, route, and duration according to prescriptions in the last 3 months. Two experts checked the relevance of prescriptions according to the local Antibioguide, and determined a score of therapeutic adequacy index for each card.

[Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis].

The prevalence of Stapylococcus bacteriaemia is increasing worldwide, because of the increasing use of invasive procedures leading to nosocomial infections, but also of a changing way of life (increasing fashion for tattoos or piercing, use of intravenous drugs). Infective endocarditis develops in 10-30% of the cases of staphylococcus bacteriaemia. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis must be suspected when it develops in the year following heart surgery or implantation of permanent devices.

[Non infectious endocarditis: retrospective study (6 cases)].

Purpose: If there is cardiac valve vegetation and the blood cultures are negatives we need to look for slow growing bacteria, fungi, Legionella pneumophilia, Bartonella henselae and quintana, Brucella melitensis and abortus, Coxiella burneti, Chlamydiae pneumoniae by serologic tests. The diagnosis of non- infectious endocarditis could be considered only if these results were negative. The main purpose of this study was to describe the clinical and echocardiographic signs of non-infectious endocarditis cases observed in two different wards.