[Partial nephrectomy on solitary kidney: Renal function outcome and predictive factors of impairment].

Objectives: To assess the postoperative functional outcome of PN in solitary kidney and define some predictive factors of renal change.

Material And Methods: A monocentric series of 45 partial nephrectomies on solitary kidneys, performed between 1988 and 2014, was retrospectively analyzed. Pre-, per- and postoperative clinicopathological data were collected in the UroCCR database.

Overdrive ventricular pacing in pacemaker recipients with permanent atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea.

Study Objectives: Cardiac pacing is ineffective in obstructive sleep apnea (SA), but it can alleviate central SA/Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSA) in patients with heart failure (HF). We examined whether overnight overdrive ventricular pacing (OVP) has an effect on SA in pacemaker recipients with permanent atrial fibrillation (AF).

Methods: An apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) ≥ 15 was confirmed in 28/38 patients screened by finger pulse oximetry during overnight ventricular pacing at a backup rate of 40 bpm (BUV40).

[Predictive value of combined fibronectin and ultrasound cervical assessment in twin pregnancies].

Objective: To test a sequential test with fetal fibronectin detection after ultrasound measurement of cervical length to predict preterm delivery in twin pregnancies with preterm labor.

Patients And Methods: Descriptive retrospective study on 50 women with twin pregnancy hospitalised for preterm labor between 24 and 34 weeks and 6 days of gestation. The primary outcomes were preterm delivery before 34 or 37 weeks of gestation or within 7 or 14 days.

[Interest of lactate micro-dosage in scalp and umbilical cord in cases of abnormal fetal heart rate during labor. Prospective study on 162 patients].

Objective: To compare the interest of lactate microanalysis with pH measurement (Gold Standard procedure) in cord blood and fetal scalp blood samples for the assessment of abnormal fetal heart rate (FHR) during labour.

Study Design: A prospective observational study conducted from July 1st 2007 till March 31st 2008 on 162 patients with abnormal FHR during labour.

Results: Sampling failure for scalp lactate was less than 1 % compared to a failure of 10.

Is behavioral audiometry achievable in infants younger than 6 months of age?

Background And Goal: When carried out in addition to objective tests, behavioral audiometry performed in children with the so-called "Delaroche protocol" [IJORL 68 (2004) 1233-1243] enables to determine hearing thresholds by air and bone conduction over the whole auditory frequency range. In the present report, seventy-three hearing-impaired infants with different levels of motor and cognitive development were tested behaviorally before 6 months of age. Reliability of these early determined behavioral thresholds was then after analyzed using: (a) cross-sectional study, and (b) longitudinal study.