Organisation and timeline of measures in French psychiatric establishments during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic: EvOlu'Psy study.

Background: The onset of COVID-19 required rapid organisational changes in the mental health domain. Most mental health-care departments appear to have set up infection control measures and also organised planning, coordination and measures that enabled them to provide psychiatric care in a restrictive environment. Our objective was to assess the organisation by psychiatric facilities in France of their response to COVID-19, during the first wave.

[Aortic valve myxoma. Conservative valvular surgery].

The authors report a case of aortic valve myxoma discovered in a 35 years-old patient who suffered a transient ischemic attack. At operation a helicoidal gelatinous mass was found attached to the ventricular side of the right coronary cusp of the aortic valve by a pedicle. Through a mini-sternotomy approach the mass was excised and the cusp was repaired.

Mortality of nosocomial pneumonia in ventilated patients: influence of diagnostic tools.

The overmortality induced by nosocomial infections, especially pneumonia in ventilated patients (VNP), is still a matter of controversy because it is difficult to know precisely the respective effects of VNP per se and both the underlying illness and the severity of the disease that indicates ICU stay. During a 3-yr period, for each patient mechanically ventilated for more than 48 h we recorded underlying illness, reason for mechanical ventilation, clinical and therapeutic data collected during the first 48 h of ventilation, and death in the ICU. Patients with suspicion of VNP (S-VNP) according to clinical, radiologic, and biologic criteria underwent bronchoscopy with protected specimen brush (PSB) and bronchoalveolar lavage culture (BAL-C).

[Digitization and image reconstruction: application to iconography of surgical pathology specimens].

A simple method for obtaining imaging documents of surgical specimens is reported. the method uses a scanner and a personal computer with printer. It provides rapid, low-cost high-quality images on paper or transparencies.