Pediatric ambulatory pertussis epidemiology in France, recent updates.

Objectives: Following various changes in the vaccine strategy in 2013 and the mandatory vaccination in 2018, we aimed to analyze the vaccination status, age, and source of contamination of pertussis and parapertussis cases in outpatient surveillance.

Patients And Methods: Confirmed pertussis and parapertussis cases were enrolled by 35 pediatricians.

Results: From 2014 to 2022, 73 confirmed cases of pertussis (n = 65) and parapertussis (n = 8) were reported.

Identifying the educational needs of lung transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis.

Purpose: To elucidate the education needs of patients who have undergone lung transplant for cystic fibrosis while participating in the development of therapeutic education programs in French transplant centers.

Methods: From January 2009 to March 2012, in-depth educational diagnosis interviews were conducted with 42 adult transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis who were being followed up at 7 French transplant centers. Several areas were explored: health status, social and occupational outcomes, knowledge about the disease and treatments, and experience of the disease.

[Perceptions of cystic fibrosis patients, patient relatives and physicians: barriers or motivations to lung transplantation].

Introduction: The aims of this study are to describe qualitatively the perceptions of three groups involved in the cystic fibrosis transplant decision, looking for similarities and differences between groups, and to identify those that act as motivations or barriers to transplantation.

Methods: Thirty patients, 26 patient relatives and 27 physicians were interviewed, and concept maps were constructed from those interviews. Their degree of transplant acceptance at the time of the interview was measured.

[Inhalation therapy: inhaled generics, inhaled antidotes, the future of anti-infectives and the indications of inhaled pentamidine. GAT aerosolstorming, Paris 2012].

The working group on aerosol therapy (GAT) of the Société de pneumologie de langue française (SPLF) organized its third "Aerosolstorming" in 2012. During the course of one day, different aspects of inhaled therapy were discussed, and these will be treated separately in two articles, this one being the first. Inhaled products represent a large volume of prescriptions both in the community and in hospital settings and they involve various specialties particularly ENT and respiratory care.

Reference percentiles for FEV(1) and BMI in European children and adults with cystic fibrosis.

Background: The clinical course of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is usually measured using the percent predicted FEV(1) and BMI Z-score referenced against a healthy population, since achieving normality is the ultimate goal of CF care. Referencing against age and sex matched CF peers may provide valuable information for patients and for comparison between CF centers or populations. Here, we used a large database of European CF patients to compute CF specific reference equations for FEV(1) and BMI, derived CF-specific percentile charts and compared these European data to their nearest international equivalents.