Evaluation of the Early Development of 6-Month-Old Babies in the Case of Maternal Postpartum Depression with or Without Bipolar Disorder.

Background: The first year of life is the period of greatest brain plasticity. Postpartum depression can adversely affect the first interactions with the child and, consequently, their emotional, social, and cognitive development.

Objectives: First, to describe the developmental profile of six-month-old infants of mothers suffering from severe postpartum depression, and, second, to compare the development of infants whose mothers suffer from depression with or without bipolar disorder.

Developmental Profile of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Versus Social Communication Disorder: A Pilot Study.

Background: Social Communication Disorder (SCD), introduced in the DSM-5, is distinguished from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by the absence of restricted and repetitive behaviors or interests (RRBIs).

Aim: To compare the adaptive, sensory, communication, and cognitive profiles of children with ASD and SCD.

Methods: The assessments of nine children with SCD and ten with ASD were compared with either Fisher's Exact Test or the Mann-Whitney Test.

The Minimally Invasive Bipolar Fixation for Pediatric Spinal Deformities: A Narrative Review.

Growing rod techniques are increasingly used for early-onset scoliosis in children. Unfortunately, they are associated with many complications, particularly neuromuscular scoliosis, favored by the poor general condition of these patients and the fragility of their osteoporotic bones. Furthermore, these interventions are often iterative and usually followed by vertebral fusion at the end of growth.

Patient-Specific Surgical Correction of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Systematic Review.

The restoration of sagittal alignment is fundamental to the surgical correction of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). Despite established techniques, some patients present with inadequate postoperative thoracic kyphosis (TK), which may increase the risk of proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) and imbalance. There is a lack of knowledge concerning the effectiveness of patient-specific rods (PSR) with measured sagittal curves in achieving a TK similar to that planned in AIS surgery, the factors influencing this congruence, and the incidence of PJK after PSR use.

Modern Concepts in Sagittal Curve Measurement: Comparison of Spline-Based and Fixed Landmark Measurements in a Cohort of 1520 Healthy Subjects.

Study Design: Retrospective multicenter study.

Objective: Our objective was to compare the spline-based measurement of sagittal spinal curvatures to fixed landmarks in a normative population.

Summary Of Background Data: Recent research has stressed the importance of considering sagittal curvature in its entirety using a spline reconstruction.

Identifying Postural Instability in Children with Cerebral Palsy Using a Predictive Model: A Longitudinal Multicenter Study.

Insufficient postural control and trunk instability are serious concerns in children with cerebral palsy (CP). We implemented a predictive model to identify factors associated with postural impairments such as spastic or hypotonic truncal tone (TT) in children with CP. We conducted a longitudinal, double-blinded, multicenter, descriptive study of 102 teenagers with CP with cognitive impairment and severe motor disorders with and without truncal tone impairments treated in two specialized hospitals (60 inpatients and 42 outpatients; 60 males, mean age 16.

Bipolar Fusionless Versus Standard Fusion Surgery in Neuromuscular Scoliosis: A Two-center Comparative Study.

Study Design: Nonrandomized controlled cohort.

Objective: To compare early results between bipolar fusionless construct (BFC) and single posterior fusion (SPF) surgery in neuromuscular scoliosis (NMS).

Background: Surgical treatments for NMS have traditionally been characterized by high complication rates.

Pediatric Flatfoot: Is There a Need for Surgical Referral?

Pediatric foot deformities are a common finding, concerning up to 44% of preschool aged children. The absence of accepted international guidelines, as well as heterogeneity in definitions and measurements, makes management of pediatric flatfoot a challenge, and decisions surrounding specialized care referral confusing and biased. The objective of this narrative review is to provide guidance to primary care physicians treating these patients.

Enhanced recovery following posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A medical and economic study in a French private nonprofit pediatric hospital.

Introduction: Little data exist on the efficacy of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols in patients undergoing posterior spinal fusion (PSF) for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).

Hypothesis: ERAS reduces hospital costs (HC) and length of stay (LOS) without increasing pain or complications.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective comparative medical and economic study of 2 cohorts of patients who underwent PSF for AIS: a prospective group who underwent surgery with an ERAS protocol without a specially assigned care coordinator from 2020 to 2021 (n=30) and a retrospective group (control) who received standard care from 2017 to 2018 (n=30).

Spinal Sagittal Alignment Changes During Childhood: Results of a National Cohort Analysis of 1,059 Healthy Children.

Background: In the past decades, it has been recognized that sagittal alignment of the spine is crucial. Although the evolution of spinal alignment with growth has previously been described, there are no data for key parameters such as the exact shapes (extent and magnitude) of spinal curvatures. The goals of this study were therefore to determine normative values of spinopelvic sagittal parameters and to explore their variation during growth, based on the analysis of a large national cohort of healthy children.

Prediction Model for Identifying Computational Phenotypes of Children with Cerebral Palsy Needing Neurotoxin Treatments.

Factors associated with neurotoxin treatments in children with cerebral palsy (CP) are poorly studied. We developed and externally validated a prediction model to identify the prognostic phenotype of children with CP who require neurotoxin injections. We conducted a longitudinal, international, multicenter, double-blind descriptive study of 165 children with CP (mean age 16.

Can Lumbopelvic Parameters Be Used to Predict Thoracic Kyphosis at all Ages? A National Cross-Sectional Study.

Study Design: National cross-sectional study.

Objective: Thoracic kyphosis (TK) is related to sagittal parameters as pelvic tilt (PT), lumbar lordosis (LL) and pelvic incidence (PI). The equation TK = 2 (PT+LL-PI) was validated for adolescents.

Predicting osteoarthritis in adults using statistical data mining and machine learning.

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) has traditionally been considered a disease of older adults (⩾65 years old), but it may appear in younger adults. However, the risk factors for OA in younger adults need to be further evaluated.

Objectives: To develop a prediction model for identifying risk factors of OA in subjects aged 20-50 years and compare the performance of different machine learning models.

Adolescent and Juvenile Idiopathic Scoliosis: Which Patients Obtain Good Results with 12 Hours of Cheneau-Toulouse-Munster Nighttime Bracing?

Background: The results of 12 h nighttime Cheneau-Toulouse-Munster (CTM) brace wear on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis are poorly described.

Objective: The main objective was to analyze the efficiency of 12 h nighttime CTM brace wear on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. The secondary objective was to identify the factors influencing good results.

Congenital pseudarthrosis of the clavicle: a systematic review.

Purpose: There is no consensus on the type of surgical treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis of the clavicle due to its rarity. The purpose of this study is to provide evidence in favor of a surgical technique and to explore factors correlated with bone consolidation.

Methods: Systematic review of the literature and an analysis of the data for each subject, including all available subjects from the published series and clinical cases since 1990.

Congenital hypoplasia and aplasia of the quadriceps: Diagnosis and treatment.

Background: Congenital absence of the quadriceps is an extremely rare condition whose management is not standardised. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical presentation, treatments, and outcomes of a multicentre cohort.

Hypothesis: Classification of the type of abnormality at birth helps to guide management decisions.

[General practitioners' knowledge on means of prescribing speech therapy].

Introduction: General practitioners are the first prescribers of speech therapy in France, a country in which speech therapists can practice only on medical prescription. The objective of this study was to measure general practioner's knowledge on means of prescribing speech therapy.

Method: Cross-sectional study by self-questionnaires for general practitioners and residents in general practice in France.

Variation of Global Sagittal Alignment Parameters According to Gender, Pelvic Incidence, and Age.

Study Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Objective: The aim was to describe existing global sagittal alignment parameters across ages and to analyze differences according to gender and pelvic incidence (PI).

Summary Of Background Data: Variability with age has been reported.

Comparison of four correction techniques for posterior spinal fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Introduction: When performing posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), it is of major importance to address both coronal and sagittal deformities. Although several techniques have been described, few data exist comparing them. Our objective was to compare four techniques (in situ bending (ISB), rod derotation (RD), cantilever (C) and posteromedial translation (PMT)) for the correction of spinal deformity in AIS including thoracic deformity.

Do Age-Related Variations Of Sagittal Alignment Rely On SpinoPelvic Organization? An Observational Study Of 1540 Subjects.

Study Design: Descriptive radiographic analysis of a prospective multi-center database.

Objective: This study aims to provide normative values of spinopelvic parameters and their correlations according to age and pelvic incidence (PI) of subjects without spinal deformity.

Methods: After Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, 1540 full spine radiographs were analyzed.