Iron deficiency in pernicious anemia: Specific features of iron deficient patients and preliminary data on response to iron supplementation.

Background & Aims: While vitamin B12 (B12) deficiency is considered as the hallmark of pernicious anemia (PA), iron deficiency (ID) is also prevalent. Indeed, this auto immune gastritis is responsible for parietal cell atrophy and increase in gastric pH, leading to impaired iron absorption. We compared PA patients' features according to their iron status at PA diagnosis, and we assessed the iron status recovery after oral or intravenous iron supplementation.

[Effectiveness of a nutritional program based upon a ready-to-use therapeutic food in Chad].

Objective: In the health district of Goundi in Chad, 6.7% of children were affected by acute malnutrition in 2011. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a locally made ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF).

Biphasic MO2+x-M3O8-z domain of the U-Pu-O phase diagram.

The reduction of six mixed-oxide samples containing 14, 24, 35, 46, 54, and 62 mol % Pu was studied in situ by X-ray diffraction. The samples were first oxidized in air and subsequently reduced in a controlled atmosphere corresponding to a stoichiometric composition with an O/M = 2.00.

[Vascular relationships of the right great splanchnic nerve in the thorax].

Aim: The surgical assumption of responsibility of the pancreatic pain requires either a truncular coelioscopic or radicular neurectomy of greater splanchnic nerves (gsn). The goal of our work is to describe the way and relations of the right gsn which are variable and rarely described. This constitutes an undeniable peroperational hemorrhagic risk during splanchnicectomy.

High temperature X-ray diffraction study of the oxidation products and kinetics of uranium-plutonium mixed oxides.

The oxidation products and kinetics of two sets of mixed uranium-plutonium dioxides containing 14%, 24%, 35%, 46%, 54%, and 62% plutonium treated in air were studied by means of in situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) from 300 to 1773 K every 100 K. The first set consisted of samples annealed 2 weeks before performing the experiments. The second one consisted of powdered samples that sustained self-irradiation damage.

[The dorsal nerve of the clitoris: surgical applications].

Objectives: To describe the course of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris (DNC) to better define its anatomy in the human adult and to help surgeons to avoid iatrogenic injury during surgical procedures.

Method: An extensive review of the current literature was done on Medline via PubMed by using the following keywords: "anatomie du clitoris", "anatomy of clitoris", "nerf dorsal du clitoris", "dorsal nerve of clitoris", "réparation clitoridienne", "transposition clitoridienne", "surgery of the clitoris", "clitoridoplasty". This review analyzed dissection, magnetic resonance imaging, 3-dimensional sectional anatomy reconstruction and immuno-histochemical studies.

Ciliary ganglion afferents and efferents variations: a possible explanation of postganglionic mydriasis.

Purpose: Ciliary ganglion is a pre-visceral vegetative ganglion, relay of ocular bulb vegetative pathways, concerning three types of fibers: parasympathetic, sympathetic and somatosensory. The objective of this study was to describe the different patterns of distribution of those fibers around the ciliary ganglion to explain rare post-traumatic or postoperative ocular symptoms.

Methods: Dissection of 20 orbits, from cavernous sinus to ocular bulb, after intravascular injection of colored latex.

The arterial supply of the coracoid process.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the arterial supply of the coracoid process and to define its possible involvement in complications of Latarjet procedure.

Method: Five shoulder dissections were performed to highlight the extraosseous blood supply of the coracoid process. Postmortem arteriographies of the upper limb were performed.

Treatment of an aneurysmal bone cyst of the lumbar spine in children and teenagers, about five cases.

The aneurysmal bone cyst is a rare tumor. Its treatment is complex when localized to the lumbar spine, with neurological, mechanical, and tumoral complications. The aim of this study is to describe these tumors, their treatment, and their long-term evolution, as well as to define an appropriate therapeutic strategy.

Arterial supply to the tibial tuberosity: involvement in patellar ligament transfer in children.

Purpose: The aims were to study arterial blood supply of the tibial tuberosity, and to evaluate its remaining blood supply after patellar ligament transposition in children.

Methods: The anatomic study was carried out on 15 lower limbs after latex injection, and on two fetuses after diaphanization.

Results: Tibial tuberosity was vascularized by an arterial network mainly supplied by anterior tibial recurrent artery.

Which are the ideal donor and recipient vessels for a whole ovarian transplantation?

Objective: To compare deep circumflex iliac (DCI) and deep inferior epigastric (DIE) pedicles as potential recipient vessels for a whole ovarian microvascular transplantation.

Design: Anatomical study.

Setting: Laboratory of anatomy, university center.

New anatomical data on the drainage patterns of the uncinate process of the pancreas.

Purpose: Recently, progress has been made in the surgical management of benign pancreatic tumors sparing as much of the pancreatic parenchyma and pancreatic function as possible. However, the main complication of partial pancreatectomy is the disruption of pancreatic ducts ensuing leak of pancreatic secretion leading to the formation of pancreatic fistulae. In this study, we attempt to precisely define the anatomy of the branch duct draining the uncinate process which is of interest to the surgeons.

The effect of a one-leg cycling aerobic training program during the rehabilitation period in soccer players with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

Objectives: To examine cardiorespiratory fitness, resting cardiac parameters, and muscle oxygenation changes in soccer players having undergone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and to assess the benefits of a one-leg cycling (OLC) aerobic training program performed during the rehabilitation period.

Design: Randomized clinical trial.

Setting: Outpatient clinic, primary care.

Troponin levels help predict new-onset atrial fibrillation in ischaemic stroke patients: a retrospective study.

Background: Elevated levels of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) have been reported in acute stroke and atrial fibrillation (AF). We tested a hypothesis in which the result of an initial cTnI assay helps predict new-onset AF (NAF) early in the course of ischaemic stroke in patients with sinus rhythm on admission.

Methods: This retrospective study included all patients admitted to our unit for acute ischaemic stroke between January 2006 and December 2007 (n = 402).

Effect of one-leg cycling aerobic training in amateur soccer players after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

Objective: To examine before and after 6 wks of rehabilitation, the cardiorespiratory fitness, and resting cardiac parameter changes in soccer players having undergone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and to assess the benefits of a one leg cycling aerobic training program with the nonsurgical leg during the rehabilitation period.

Design: Twenty-four amateur soccer players took part in this study. The subjects were then randomly assigned to one of two groups--either an individualized one leg cycling aerobic program (training group) or without cardiorespiratory training (control group).

Internal device decreases antibiotic's efficacy on experimental osteomyelitis.

Purpose: We have evaluated the effect of internal and external osteosynthesis devices on the efficacy of vancomycin treatment in a rabbit model of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-induced post-traumatic osteomyelitis.

Methods: Double tibial osteotomies in female New Zealand rabbits were performed, inoculated with a MRSA strain, then fixed with an intramedullary rod. A debridement was performed 4 days later for each rabbit, and a bacterial count in pus was determined (B1).

Intermittent active motion versus immobilization in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus-induced arthritis in a rabbit model.

Purpose: This study has evaluated the effects of immobilization versus intermittent active motion on cartilage and on antibiotic efficacy in a rabbit septic arthritis model.

Methods: Rabbits were infected and assigned to one of four groups: group 1, no treatment without immobilization (allowing intermittent active motion); group 2, cast; group 3, oxacillin without immobilization; group 4, oxacillin and cast. Animals were sacrificed 21 days later.

[One-leg cycling aerobic training with the healthy leg in amateur soccer players after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction].

Objective: To examine cardiorespiratory fitness changes in subjects having undergone knee surgery and to assess the benefits of one-leg cycling aerobic training program during the rehabilitation period.

Method: Two groups of 12 patients took part in this study. The control group profited from a five weeks conventional rehabilitation in day hospital without cardiorespiratory training.

[The high level swimmer articular shoulder complex].

Objective: To analyze the shoulder joint complex in high level swimmers. We formulated the assumption that high level swimming weakens this complex, resulting in laxity of the anterior-inferior capsuloligamentous structures with atraumatic anterior instability, impingement with rotator cuff tendonitis and muscle imbalance of the rotator cuff muscles.

Method: Two 20-subject groups took part in this study (a group of high level swimmers and a group of sedentary people).

Lumbar hernia: anatomical basis and clinical aspects.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to describe the anatomy of the two orifices of the abdominal posterior wall where lumbar hernias could appear. They may protrude through the superficial lumbar triangle (JL Petit) or the deepest superior orifice (Grynfeltt).

Methods: The exact limits were precised by dissections in cadavers to explain the main differences of these two locations.