Publications by authors named "Nathalie Ong"
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- Aprotinin was taken off the market in 2008 due to safety concerns but was reintroduced in France in 2018. A study was conducted to compare its effectiveness with tranexamic acid in high-risk cardiac surgery patients.
- Economic analysis showed no significant difference in overall costs between the two treatments, but the tranexamic acid group incurred higher costs for blood products.
- The initial higher cost of aprotinin is compensated by the greater expenses of blood products required for patients treated with tranexamic acid.
Introduction: Incidence of hospitalisations related to psychoactive substance (H-PS) intoxication has been strongly decreased during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic especially in young adult and French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine was mostly concerned. This study aimed to describe (i) the incidence of H-PS in Bordeaux teaching hospital during and after the first 2020 lockdown in adults aged 18-29 years or 30+ then (ii) their characteristics specifically associated with the pandemic period by comparing 2020 with 2017-2019 baseline period.
Material And Methods: This historical cohort study was conducted in adults admitted to the Bordeaux teaching hospital with main or associated diagnosis codes of intoxication with benzodiazepine, methadone, buprenorphine, codeine, morphine, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol.
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- This study compared two surgical techniques for one-level lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis: isolated instrumented posterior fusion (PLF) and instrumented posterior fusion with transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (PLF + TLIF).
- It included 60 patients who were randomly assigned to either PLF or PLF + TLIF and assessed clinical outcomes like pain and disability, along with radiological outcomes such as fusion rates and alignment at baseline and after two years.
- The results showed both groups had significant improvement in pain and disability, but no noticeable difference between the techniques, with TLIF having a better posterolateral fusion rate but not impacting segmental lordosis improvement.
Background: The number and indications of lumbar punctures (LPs) performed nowadays are unknown. The primary aim of this work was to report the number of LPs performed in each of the departments of 2 French university hospitals, their indications and the prevalence of atraumatic spinal needles used.
Methods: We carried out a retrospective study of all the LPs performed in 2014.
Context: The Portuguese man-o-war is a cnidaria classically found in tropical waters. It can cause serious and even life-threatening envenomation in swimmers, surfers and seafarers. Presence of the Atlantic species Physalia physalis has long been reported in European coastal waters but was always an exceptional event.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: On 22 June 2011, 8 patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) or bloody diarrhea were reported in France. All 8 were attendees of a community center event on 8 June near Bordeaux. Three Escherichia coli cases were confirmed by isolation of Shiga toxin-producing E.
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