Pressure ulcer prevention devices in the management of older patients at risk after hospital discharge: an SNDS study.

Objective: Our aim was to measure the effectiveness of home healthcare pressure ulcer (PU) prevention devices (PUPDs) for at-risk patients after hospital discharge in France.

Method: We conducted a retrospective analysis of PU-associated hospitalisations based on the French medico-administrative database (Système National des Données de Santé, SNDS), which covers the entire French population. All adults >70 years of age, hospitalised from 1 July to 31 December 2015, and equipped with a medical bed at home, were included.

Assessment of Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge and Understanding of the Risk of Blood Typing Interference with Daratumumab: A Survey of 12 European Countries.

Introduction: Daratumumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting CD38, is approved to treat multiple myeloma. Red blood cells express low levels of CD38, which can result in a false-positive antibody screen in daratumumab-treated patients. Educational materials were developed to inform healthcare professionals (HCPs) and blood transfusion management department personnel (BTMDP) about this risk and recommended measures to mitigate that risk.

A risk-adapted strategy of radiotherapy or cisplatin-based chemotherapy in stage II seminoma.

Objectives: Indications for radiotherapy and chemotherapy in stage II seminoma are currently debated.

Materials And Methods: Since 1980, the policy at Institut Gustave Roussy was to treat patients with stage IIA-B disease with external radiotherapy and patients with stage IIB-C with cisplatin-based chemotherapy. In stage IIB disease, 3 cm was the usual tumor size threshold above which individual patients were considered for chemotherapy.

Ultrasound criteria of malignancy for cervical lymph nodes in patients followed up for differentiated thyroid cancer.

Context: Neck ultrasonography (US) has become a keystone in the follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine specificity and sensitivity of ultrasound criteria of malignancy for cervical lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

Design: We prospectively studied 19 patients referred to the Institut Gustave Roussy for neck LN dissection.

Catalytic subunit of human telomerase reverse transcriptase is an independent predictor of survival in patients undergoing curative resection of hepatic colorectal metastases: a multicenter analysis.

Purpose: To determine the role of the catalytic subunit of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) in predicting survival after resection of hepatic colorectal metastases (CRM).

Patients And Methods: Two hundred one patients who underwent curative resection of hepatic CRM between 1990 and 2000 were identified from a multicenter database. The CRM were analyzed for hTERT nucleolar expression by standard immunohistochemical techniques.

EBV latent membrane protein 1 abundance correlates with patient age but not with metastatic behavior in north African nasopharyngeal carcinomas.

Background: Undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinomas are rare in a majority of countries but they occur at a high incidence in South China and to a lesser extent in North Africa. They are constantly associated with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) regardless of patient geographic origin. In North Africa, the distribution of NPC cases according to patient age is bi-modal with a large group of patients being around 50 years old (80%) and a smaller group below 25 years old.