[Blood pressure from 0 to 18 months. Use of an automatic measurement method].

A prospective study of blood pressure in 251 neonates and infants aged 0 to 18 months was undertaken with an automatic measurement method. Children of black race (n = 33) were taller (p less than 0.05), heavier (p less than 0.

[Hospitalization of the elderly in a department of internal medicine. Predictive elements of risk and benefit].

One hundred and thirty patients over 70 years have been examined in a prospective way, so as to determine pernicious and benefic effects of hospitalization in elderly people. Deaths appear to be more frequent in old male patients, with a high cultural level on one hand, and a "reduced" independence, on the other hand (according to the "Sandoz clinical assessment of geriatrics scale"). Benefic effects appear to be essentially dependent on primary diagnosis, and on the entourage, as well as on the previous medical care, though less important.

[Unexplained prolonged fever and inflammatory syndromes. Diagnostic value of abdominal X-ray computed tomography. Randomized prospective study of 36 cases].

A randomized study was carried out in 36 patients to determine the diagnostic value of abdominal computerized tomography (CT) in protracted fever of obscure origin and/or unexplained inflammatory syndromes. There were no clinical or biological signs pointing to a diagnosis, and 55% of the patients had already been unsuccessfully explored in other hospital departments. CT was performed initially in group I patients and after some of 56 predetermined conventional examinations (including 20 considered "invasive") carried out in a definite order in group II patients.

[Survival of patients with triple-vessel stenosing coronary atheroma].

This study analysed the survival rate of 179 patients with triple vessel coronary artery disease, 168 men and 11 women (mean age 54 years). Seventeen cases of left main stem disease were excluded. The patients presented with unstable angina (64 cases), stable angina (66 cases), recent myocardial infarction (26 cases) or chronic invalidating angina (23 cases).