Publications by authors named "Marc Wangermez"
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- A multicenter study assessed the feasibility and safety of EUS-guided fiducial marker placement in patients with esophageal or rectal cancer referred for radiation therapy, focusing on success rates and outcomes.
- The study involved 33 patients, achieving a 93.9% success rate in marker placement, with an average procedure time of 12.5 minutes and no reported adverse events.
- Results showed that all fiducial markers remained visible throughout radiation therapy, emphasizing the approach's safety and effectiveness for these cancer types.
Background: Palliative biliary drainage in patients with unresectable malignant biliary obstruction (MBO) frequently leads to biliary stent infection (BI), which could impact medical care. The aim of this study was to assess the risk factors for BI occurrence in patients after stenting procedure and the impact of BI on patient survival.
Methods: All consecutive patients hospitalized from 2014 to 2018 for MBO and biliary stenting were retrospectively included.
The noninvasive detection of and its resistance to clarithromycin could revolutionize the management of -infected patients by tailoring eradication treatment without any need for endoscopy when histology is not necessary. Several real-time PCR tests performed on stools have been proposed, but their performances were either poor or they were tested on too few patients to be properly evaluated. We conducted a prospective, multicenter study including 1,200 adult patients who were addressed for gastroduodenal endoscopy with gastric biopsies and who were naive for eradication treatment in order to evaluate the performance of the Amplidiag +ClariR assay recently developed by Mobidiag (Espoo, Finland).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The results of only a few endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for pancreatic solid pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) have been published, and the safety of the procedure has never been investigated. Our study compared the recurrence rate in patients with and without preoperative EUS-FNA.
Methods: This European multicenter registry-based study was conducted in 22 digestive units, and retrospectively included all patients who underwent complete resection of a pancreatic SPN from 2000 to 2018.
Background: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the risk factors of endocrine and exocrine insufficiency occurring few years after pancreatic resections in a consecutive series of patients who underwent pancreatoduodenectomy (PD), left pancreatectomy (LP) or enucleation for benign neoplasms at a referral centre.
Methods: Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) was defined by the onset of steatorrhea associated with weight loss, and endocrine insufficiency was determinate by fasting plasma glucose. Association between pancreatic insufficiency and clinical, pathological, and perioperative features was studied using univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis.
Background And Study Aims: A new core biopsy needle for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided sampling has recently been developed. The aim of this prospective multicenter study was to compare this needle with a standard needle in patients with solid pancreatic masses.
Patients And Methods: Consecutive patients with solid pancreatic masses referred to 17 centers for EUS-guided sampling were included.
Background: The influence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection on atherosclerosis risk in HIV-infected patients has not been adequately evaluated in real-life situations.
Objectives And Methods: We compared indexes of early atherosclerosis evaluated by echo-Doppler ultrasound (presence of plaque in carotid or femoral arteries) in 18 HCV-HIV co-infected patients versus 22 HIV mono-infected patients.
Results: Prevalence of subclinical carotid plaque was significantly higher in HCV-HIV co-infected patients (p=0.