Publications by authors named "Pauline Moreau"
Electronic wastes are a valuable resource due to their critical and precious metal content. To include these wastes in recycling or recovery chains, it is necessary to precisely determine their metal content. Because analysing the whole sample of a batch of electronic waste is not practical, different preparation and sampling or subsampling steps are necessary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Medical emergencies are defined at the medical level, whereas the use of emergency consultations is decided by the patient. Urgent oncology cares are specific due to clinical, therapeutic, technic and psychologic complexity.
Methods: This descriptive retrospective study about 142 consultations carried out at the unplanned medical unit, with an analyse of demographics, clinical characteristics, reason for medical appeal, deployed resources and oncological pathway for six months.
In order to develop methods to determine the chemical composition of Waste Printed Circuit Boards (WPCB), this study focused on the analysis of 10 metals (Cu, Fe, Sn, Zn, Pb, Ni, Sb, Cr, Mo and Pd) using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) compared to ICP-MS measurements after aqua regia digestion. Different experimental conditions were tested: 3 particle sizes (200 µm, 750 µm and 2 mm) and 3 sample preparations (tube, cup and loose powder). For each condition tested, 8-16 independent replicates were done.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Little is known about the consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns on physical activity (PA), eating behavior, and mental health in post-bariatric surgery (BS) patients. We aimed to analyze the relations between changes in PA during COVID-19 lockdowns and changes in body weight and a comprehensive set of lifestyle and psychological outcomes in patients who have undergone BS.
Material And Methods: In April-May 2020 (lockdown#1), we performed an online survey in a cohort of 937 adults who underwent BS and were followed-up at our university medical center for at least one year.
The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused profound upset in health systems around the world. As cancer patients seem to be at greater risk, the organization of oncological care had to be adapted. We first report the progress of the "first wave" of COVID-19 at the Institut Curie, a French comprehensive cancer center, by describing the measures implemented to limit the risk of transmission of COVID-19 while ensuring as much as possible the continuation of anticancer treatments.
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- Cancer patients showed a higher risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19, leading to a study at Institut Curie, with 141 out of 9842 patients diagnosed during the early pandemic.
- The majority of affected patients had active cancer treatment, with most presenting COVID-related symptoms and low lung involvement at diagnosis, alongside common lab abnormalities like elevated C-reactive protein.
- Ultimately, the severity of COVID-19 infection, rather than specific cancer types or characteristics, was found to influence patient outcomes, with 18.4% dying from the virus and about 71% recovering.
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- The study aims to evaluate malnutrition in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and its correlation with disease severity and clinical outcomes like ICU transfer or death.
- Among 114 patients studied, a significant 42.1% were found to be malnourished, with an even higher rate of 66.7% in those coming from the ICU.
- Lower levels of albumin were linked to an increased risk of ICU transfer, indicating a crucial need for early nutritional assessments in COVID-19 patients to improve management.
CT lung extent has emerged as a potential risk factor of COVID-19 pneumonia severity with mainly semiquantitative assessment, and outcome was not assessed in the specific oncology setting. The main goal was to evaluate the prognostic role of quantitative assessment of the extent of lung damage for early mortality of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in cancer patients. We prospectively included consecutive cancer patients with recent onset of COVID-19 pneumonia assessed by chest CT between March 15, 2020, and April 20, 2020, and followed until May 1, 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 and its Severity in Bariatric Surgery-Operated Patients.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
January 2021
Objective: Obesity is a major risk factor for severe forms of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but little is known about the post-bariatric surgery (BS) setting. The prevalence of likely COVID-19 and its risk factors in patients followed up after BS was assessed.
Methods: A total of 738 patients who underwent BS and were followed up at a university medical center were surveyed.