Doctoral theses at the medical faculty of Tunis from 2015 to 2017: Scientific publication rates and associated factors.

Introduction: Medical doctoral thesis publication is a way to ensure knowledge dissemination and to increase the scientific research visibility.

Aim: To determine thesis-related publication's rate at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT), and identify associated factors.

Methods: Cross-sectional retrospective study including medical theses registered at the FMT over the study period (2015-2017).

Mercurial hospital waste: management, becoming and recommendations.

Introduction And Purpose: In hospitals, the use of medical instruments and products containing mercury and the management of mercury waste (MW) collected are regulated in developed countries. In Tunisia, MW end up in landfill and no strategy has so far been adopted. The objective of this study was to quantify MW in two university hospitals in Tunis and to indicate the elimination pathways used and to propose certain recommendations.

[Is BNP assay useful for the diagnosis of acute dyspnea in emergencies departments?].

Background: It would be interesting to the emergency doctor to have at his disposal a helpful diagnostic tool like brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). Such assay is simple, available and reliable.

Aims: To report our experience on the role of BNP in the etiological diagnosis of acute dyspnea (AD) in emergency room (ER) and to assess the cost-effectiveness ratio of such diagnosis strategy.

Incidence of deep venous thrombosis in patients with erysipelas of the leg: prospective study of 30 cases in an emergency department.

The treatment of lower limb erysipelas is based on anti-streptococcal antibiotherapy. The indication of adjuvant anticoagulant therapy is not clear because of the lack of data about the incidence of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in these patients. We performed a prospective study using a colour Doppler vein exploration combined with ultrasonography within the first 48 h, with evaluation of clinical probability of DVT according to the Wells score to assess the incidence of DVT in patients with erysipelas of the lower limb.