Publications by authors named "S Bekkar"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to evaluate the incidence of infectious adverse events (IAE) in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) undergoing treatment with biological agents from January 2001 to August 2015.
- - Analyzing data from 677 patients over 3075.4 person-years, 184 infectious events were identified, with a higher risk associated with IL-6 and IL-1 antagonists compared to TNF inhibitors; most infections were mild and affected the upper respiratory tract.
- - Overall, while infectious complications are rare in these patients, they generally present as mild to moderate conditions, with no severe outcomes like tuberculosis or death reported during the study period.
Routine surveillance endoscopy before and after sleeve gastrectomy?
World J Gastrointest Endosc
January 2019
There is no consensus when it comes to the necessity of an oeso-gastroduodenal fibroscopy (OGDF) before and after bariatric surgery. Many reports expressed the preoccupations about a gastroesophagal reflux disease (an acute risk of Barrett's esophagus) and its consequences after a sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and the risk of leaving a premalignant lesion in an excluded stomach after a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders recommends a surveillance endoscopy, routinely after a SG.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: Very few cases of secondary peritonitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae have been described in the literature, and they have been found to occur mostly in patients with predisposing factors. Here, we report the case of an elderly patient who developed pneumococcal peritonitis secondary to perforation of gastroduodenal ulcer.
Patient Concerns: An 82-year-old man was admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) for septic shock with cardiac impairment 1 day after arriving in the Emergency Department.
Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is a rare but benign vasculitis occurring in infants aged from 4 to 24 months. Skin lesions can take various forms, including extensive hemorrhagic purpura, and can therefore be mistaken for purpura fulminans if associated with fever, which leads to initiating broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment. In the present case, we describe a 7-month-old boy with acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy and rapidly extensive purpura lesions that led to intravenous cefotaxime and amikacin treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The benefit of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) for early-stage oesophageal cancer is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess whether NCT improves the outcome of patients with stage I or II disease.
Methods: Data were collected from 30 European centres from 2000 to 2010.