Mass mortality events affecting the blue mussels Mytilus edulis have been observed in France since 2014. The DNA of the bacterium Francisella halioticida, reported as pathogen of giant abalone (Haliotis gigantea) and Yesso scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis) has been detected recently in mussels from areas suffering mortalities. Isolation of this bacterium was attempted from individuals collected during mortality events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in France has increased since the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. By contrast, neonatal and pediatric ECMO support in France was known to be limited to a few centers offering congenital cardiac surgery. The purpose of this survey conducted in 2017 was to identify the neonatal and pediatric ECMO centers in France as well as networks existing between ECMO and non-ECMO centers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
September 2019
Unlabelled: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is an evident advance in the management of patients. Its feasibility and its effectiveness have been little analyzed in elderly's orthopedics. The aim of this systematic review of the literature was to analyze the feasibility (realization of classic ERAS items) and the efficiency (length of stay, morbidity and mortality) of ERAS in the elderly during total arthroplasty hip.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE J Biomed Health Inform
March 2020
Gait speed is an important parameter to characterize people's daily mobility. For real-world speed measurement, inertial sensors or global navigation satellite system (GNSS) can be used on wrist, possibly integrated in a wristwatch. However, power consumption of GNSS is high and data are only available outdoor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNegative emotions typically have an adverse effect on reasoning, especially analytic or logical reasoning. This effect can be explained using an attentional framework in which emotion detracts limited-capacity cognitive resources which are required for reasoning. Another possibility is that the effect of emotion on reasoning is mediated by arousal, as previous research has shown that physiological arousal can be associated with decreased reasoning performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhy do people make deontological decisions, although they often lead to overall unfavorable outcomes? One account is receiving considerable attention: deontological judgments may signal commitment to prosociality and thus may increase people's chances of being selected as social partners-which carries obvious long-term benefits. Here we test this framework by experimentally exploring whether people making deontological judgments are expected to be more prosocial than those making consequentialist judgments and whether they are actually so. In line with previous studies, we identified deontological choices using the Trapdoor dilemma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lyme disease is emerging in Canada. This study aimed to describe the use of serologic testing for the disease in the La Pommeraie health region in southern Quebec between 2012 and 2015 and to describe the clinical presentation of laboratory-confirmed cases.
Methods: The medical charts of all patients investigated for Lyme disease at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital's laboratory between 2012 and 2015 were reviewed for results of serologic testing.
In daily life, a person's gait-an important marker for his/her health status-is usually assessed using inertial sensors fixed to lower limbs or trunk. Such sensor locations are not well suited for continuous and long duration measurements. A better location would be the wrist but with the drawback of the presence of perturbative movements independent of walking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To demonstrate the clinical feasibility of autoclaving certain silicone impression materials in order to avoid potential cross-contamination during handling, transport, and subsequent processing.
Background: Semicritical devices are recommended to be treated at least with high-level disinfectants or actually steam sterilized at 134°C. To date dental impressions have been disinfected rather than sterilized, so the question remains should they be sterilized before being sent to the dental laboratory?
Case Descriptions: Two identical impressions per case were made of metal-ceramic crown and fixed partial denture preparations on the same patient using addition type polyvinyl siloxane (PVS) impression materials (AFFINIS,® Coltene/Whaledent AG, 9450 Altstätten, Switzerland) in different trays.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
September 2005
Objective: We sought to assess the long-term outcome of 57 pediatric patients who underwent partial cricotracheal resection for subglottic stenosis.
Methods: Eighty-one pediatric partial cricotracheal resections were performed in our tertiary care institution between 1978 and 2004. Fifty-seven patients had a minimal follow-up time of 1 year and were included in this study.
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol
July 2003
In our study, 60 infants and children, each with a severe subglottic stenosis (SGS), underwent partial cricotracheal resection (PCTR) with primary thyrotracheal anastomosis. According to the Myer-Cotton classification, two were grade II, 41 were grade III and 17 were grade IV stenoses. Of the 60 patients, 57 (95%) are presently decannulated, and one patient sustained a complete restenosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac
October 2001
Fifty-eight infants and children with a severe subglottic stenosis underwent a partial cricotracheal resection with primary thyrotracheal anastomosis. There were 2 grade II, 40 grade III, and 16 grade IV stenoses according to the Myer-Cotton classification. A 100% subglottic lumen was formed in 34 cases and a better than 80% lumen in 23 cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
October 1999
Until recently, cricotracheal resection (CTR) has not been commonly accepted as a treatment modality for severe subglottic stenosis in the pediatric age group. The reasons have included the risk of a possible dehiscence at the site of the anastomosis, the likelihood of injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerves, and the interference with normal growth of the larynx. Thirty-eight infants and children with a severe subglottic stenosis underwent a partial cricoid resection with primary thyrotracheal anastomosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Otol Rhinol Laryngol
November 1998
Until recently, severe pediatric subglottic stenosis (SGS) has been treated almost exclusively by laryngotracheoplasty procedures. Even in the most experienced centers, the results of single-stage operations for Cotton's grade III and IV stenoses have been disappointing. This paper reports our experience on 31 partial cricotracheal resections for severe SGS in infants and children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Otorhinolaryngol Belg
January 1996
Controversy still exists concerning the best treatment modality for severe (Cotton's grade III and IV) subglottic stenosis in infants and children. Although laryngotracheoplasty procedures remain the operation of choice in most centres, this series of 26 partial cricoid resections with primary thyrotracheal anastomoses show a decannulation rate of 96% (25/26 cases) after a single open procedure. Twenty-three patients practice sport freely without dyspnea, 2 show a slight exertional stridor and one teenager experienced a complete restenosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFifteen infants and children with a severe subglottic stenosis underwent a partial cricoid resection with primary tracheal anastomosis. The etiology of the stenosis was congenital in 3 cases and was acquired after prolonged intubation in 12. Fourteen patients were tracheotomy dependent at the time of surgery, and 13 (87%) of the 15 were classified grade III (7 cases) and IV (6 cases) according to Cotton.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChanges of skin temperature (T degree) of the nose area during nasal provocation tests with histamine and allergen were followed by means of an infrared thermography camera. By a colimator system in which temperatures measured on a given surface can be integrated and averaged, thermography allows the continuous and quantitative recording of the temperature during the whole procedure in a completely noninvasive way. In 10 normal subjects, increasing doses of histamine induced a dose-dependent rise of the nose external temperature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffective and safe maintenance medical therapy for uncomplicated reflux esophagitis is now feasible with omeprazole and it is likely that other H+K+ATPase blockers, and possibly very high dose H2 receptor antagonist regimens, will also be acceptable. In addition, many patients with ulceration, strictures, and Barrett's esophagus will respond to conservative medical therapy and a proportion of patients with erosive esophagitis may remain in remission with cisapride or with low dose H2 receptor antagonists, if disease is less severe. Thus, there is now a medical "gold standard" against which surgical therapy for uncomplicated esophagitis must be judged and it is essential that all future studies be conducted with clearly defined criteria for the assessment of the symptoms and endoscopic signs of esophagitis and its complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSchweiz Med Wochenschr
May 1991
The etiology of esophagus papilloma is much debated: some authors attach greater importance to irritation factors, while others give preference to the viral hypothesis and suggest that this disease could eventually lead to squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. To verify the viral hypothesis, we reviewed the histological slides of the 33 cases of esophageal papilloma diagnosed in our Institute of Pathology between 1973 and 1988. We evaluated the histological diagnosis using Winckler's criteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe combination of cisplatin (80 mg/m2, i.v., day 1), 96-h infusion of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) (30 mg/kg/24 h) and vindesine (3 mg/m2 days 1 and 8) was evaluated in 31 patients with histologically proven epidermoid carcinoma of the head and neck.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSquamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus appears mainly as an isolated tumor, frequently diagnosed in its latest stage. However, current advances in endoscopy, systematically used for high risk subjects, allow the detection of very early lesions such as epithelial dysplasia or in situ carcinoma. Twenty-eight squamous cell carcinomas were extensively studied: Group A contained 15 clinically "early cancers"; Group B 12 clinically obvious carcinomas and group C one clinically obvious bifocal carcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCervical and mediastinal emphysema is a rather rare phenomenon, that may happen in various clinical situations. The ENT-specialist is commonly involved in diagnostic as well as in therapeutic procedures. This retrospective study of 116 cases shows three different ethiopathogenic mechanisms: a direct trauma, a pressure gradient and a local gaz production in the soft tissues.
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