Publications by authors named "P Imbert"
Objectives: There is little data on pregnant women with imported malaria in high-income countries, especially regarding offspring outcomes. We wanted to determine pregnancy outcomes of imported malaria in pregnant women in mainland France.
Patients And Methods: We conducted a retrospective, descriptive study of outcomes in pregnant women hospitalized with malaria from 2004 to 2014 in two regions of mainland France.
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- - A 70-year-old woman with a background of thyroid surgery for benign nodules and Graves' disease developed new symptoms after getting an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
- - She experienced Graves' orbitopathy (a condition affecting the eyes) and pretibial myxedema (skin condition related to thyroid issues).
- - Her thyroid-related symptoms improved significantly after receiving infusions of 500 mg of methylprednisolone, a type of steroid medication.
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- Imported malaria is becoming a significant health issue in non-endemic countries, particularly due to increased global travel, prompting a study to explore cytokine profiles in affected individuals in France.
- The research involved 278 adults with Plasmodium falciparum malaria, classifying them into uncomplicated (UM) and severe malaria (SM), with findings showing a notable association between high IL-10 levels and both disease severity and higher parasitemia.
- The study revealed that many patients had undetectable cytokine levels at admission, indicating that routine cytokine testing may not be useful, but high IL-10 concentrations could be important for monitoring severe cases and potential infections.
During reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, graft preparation is an essential step. The semitendinosus tendon is most frequently used, usually with a 4-strand graft and endobutton fixation. Our lasso-loop technique for tendon fixation is rapid and without sutures, providing a graft with a regular diameter, with no weak points and satisfactory primary stability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeveral studies showed that folds (topology of protein secondary structures) distribution in proteomes may be a global proxy to build phylogeny. Then, some folds should be synapomorphies (derived characters exclusively shared among taxa). However, previous studies used methods that did not allow synapomorphy identification, which requires congruence analysis of folds as individual characters.
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