Bilateral Sub-deltoid Bursitis in a Patient Receiving Infliximab for Crohn's Disease.

Background: Infiximab has been shown to be effective in inducing and maintaining remission of intestinal bowel diseases. Infiximab has been associated with many adverse events. Articular manifestations are commonly reported, but they are of variable clinical expression and aetiology.

Autoimmune gastritis: assessment of OLGA and OLGIM staging systems.

Background: Autoimmune gastritis present a risk of cancer related to atrophy and intestinal metaplasia. Two recent classifications OLGA (Operative Link on Gastritis Assessment) and OLGIM (Operative Link on Gastritic Intestinal Metaplasia assessment) have been proposed to reveal the high progressive risk forms (stages III and IV).

Aim: To evaluate the OLGA and OLGIM staging systems in chronic autoimmune gastritis.

[Helicobacter pylori gastritis: assessment of OLGA and OLGIM staging systems].

Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) gastritis presents a risk of cancer related to atrophy and intestinal metaplasia. Two recent classifications OLGA (Operative Link on Gastritis Assessment) and OLGIM (Operative Link on Gastritic Intestinal Metaplasia assessment) have been proposed to identify high-risk forms (stages III and IV). The aim of this study is to evaluate the OLGA and OLGIM staging systems in H pylori gastritis.

[Steatosis in chronic viral hepatitis C: frequency, risk factors and relationship with fibrosis].

Aims: To evaluate the frequency and the severity of hepatic steatosis in chronic hepatitis C patients, to identify the associated factors with the presence of steatosis and to determine the relationship between the presence of steatosis and severity of hepatic fibrosis.

Methods: Lecture of hepatic biopsies was performed blindly by the same histopathologist, using the METAVIR grading. Hepatic steatosis was graded as macrovacuolar or microvesicular.

[Nocturnal gastroesophageal reflux disease in asthmatics patients: a pHmetric study about 81 cases].

Aims: To determine the frequency of gastroesophageal reflux disease on 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring in asthmatics patients and to evaluate the clinical and pHmetric characteristics of nocturnal reflux in these patients.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study based on results of 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring during a 10-year period in asthmatics patients with or without digestive symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Results: We studied 81 patients (37 men, 44 women; mean age: 32 years).

[Predictive factors of fibrosis for chronic viral hepatitis C].

Aim: To determine the histological aspects and associated factors to significant or severe fibrosis in patients with chronic viral hepatitis C.

Methods: Consecutive patients recruited between 1999 and 2005 were studied. Lecture of hepatic biopsies was performed by the same histopathologist, using the METAVIR grading.