Automatic Sleep Stages Classification Combining Semantic Representation and Dynamic Expert System.

Interest in sleep has been growing in the last decades, considering its benefits for well-being, but also to diagnose sleep troubles. The gold standard to monitor sleep consists of recording the course of many physiological parameters during a whole night. The human interpretation of resulting curves is time consuming.

OSA treatment with CPAP: Randomized crossover study comparing tolerance and efficacy with and without humidification by ThermoSmart.

Objectives: Adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) remains an issue, as adverse effects (AE) such as rhinitis, dry/congested nose, dry mouth or throat are commonly experienced. The aim of the study was to compare CPAP efficacy and tolerance in severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients with or without (w/o) heated humidification using the ThermoSmart system.

Methods: Multicenter RCT study in which CPAP-naive patients with severe OSA and meeting one or more of the following criteria: >65 years, using >1 drying medication, previous nasal symptoms or nasal surgery, were included.

Early Electroencephalography Findings in Cardiogenic Shock Patients Treated by Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Objectives: We aimed to assess early electroencephalography findings in patients treated by venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and their association with neurologic outcome.

Design: Single-center observational study.

Setting: Medical ICU of a university hospital.

A novel hereditary extensive vascular leukoencephalopathy mapping to chromosome 20q13.

Objective: The detection of a leukoencephalopathy is a frequent situation in neurologic practice. In a number of cases, the etiology remains obscure despite extensive investigations. We characterized the clinical, pathologic, and genetic features of a novel hereditary vascular leukoencephalopathy.

Plasmapheresis for the treatment of acute pancreatitis induced by hemophagocytic syndrome related to hypertriglyceridemia.

Histiocytic cytophagic panniculitis is an unusual form of hemophagocytic syndrome related to T-cell lymphoma that can be responsible for hypertriglyceridemia. The elevation of serum triglycerides, usually in the setting of familial lipidemia or during uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, is a well-recognized cause of pancreatitis. We report here on the treatment by plasmapheresis of a patient suffering from a T-cell lymphoma-related panniculitis who presented with an acute pancreatitis induced by hypertriglyceridemia.