Indocyanine Green Fluorescence-Guided Surgery for Gastrointestinal Tumors: A Systematic Review.

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the currently available literature on the use of ICG to guide surgical dissection in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer surgery.

Background: Real-time indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence-guided surgery has the potential to enhance surgical outcomes by increasing patient-tailored oncological precision.

Methods: MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, and Google Scholar were searched for publications on the use of ICG as a contrast agent in GI cancer surgery until December 2020.

[Use of heparin calibrated anti-Xa assay for apixaban and rivaroxaban measurement in the context of regional telestroke activity].

Introduction: In Bordeaux University Hospital, neurologists are required to prescribe thrombolysis using telemedicine (telethrombolysis) for anticoagulated stroke patients admitted in peripheral centers in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. However, due to the bleeding risk, the maximum concentration of DOAC authorizing thrombolysis is 30, 50 or 100 ng/mL (depending on the sources and the patient-specific benefit-risk ratio). Most of the time, specific assays of Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) are not available in these peripheral centers.

Description of an original integron encompassing blaVIM-2, qnrVC1 and genes encoding bacterial group II intron proteins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Objectives: A burn unit of a hospital in Tunis underwent an endemic situation caused by imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. For nine non-repetitive isolates of a clonal VIM-2-producing strain, the blaVIM-2 genetic background was characterized and the associated qnrVC1 gene molecularly analysed.

Methods: The imipenem resistance mechanism was investigated by phenotypic and molecular tests, and resistance transfer was studied by conjugation and transformation experiments.

Decision-making heterogeneity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: ventromedial prefrontal cortex function predicts different treatment outcomes.

Certain clinical aspects of patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) appear similar to those of patients with damage to the ventromedial sector of the prefrontal cortex. The hypothesis for the involvement of the frontal region in OCD is also supported by neuropsychological findings. Building on this evidence, we assessed the performance of a group of 34 OCD patients on a measure indexing with orbitofrontal cortex functioning and compared it with the performance of two other subject groups, one consisting of 34 healthy control subjects and the other 16 patients with panic disorder.