Publications by authors named "Steineur M"
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- The study explored survival factors in cancer patients suspected of having COVID-19, highlighting that these patients face a significantly high risk of death.
- Out of 302 cancer patients, 18.2% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 via RT-PCR, with older patients and those with respiratory symptoms being more prevalent in this group.
- The death rates at a median follow-up of 25 days were 21% for RT-PCR-positive and 10% for RT-PCR-negative patients, with risk factors for death including male gender, poor performance status, and presence of respiratory symptoms, but the viral detection did not correlate with increased mortality.
Introduction: Myelopathy is a rare manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus, occurring most often during the course of the disease.
Exegesis: We report two cases of women with myelopathy as the first manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus; both had an unusual course. We review the literature for previously reported cases.
Introduction: The combination of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and thyroid diseases raises several issues that are the prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity in patients with chronic hepatitis C, the prevalence of HCV infection in patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases, and the effects of interferon alpha treatment on thyroid function in chronic HCV hepatitis.
Current Knowledge And Key Points: The prevalence of anti-thyroid auto-antibodies ranges from 4.6 to 15% in HCV infection, which is considered as significant by various authors.
We have previously reported that the measles virus (MV) could productively infect human dendritic cells (DC), derived in vitro from CD34+ cord blood progenitors in the presence of GM-CSF and TNF-alpha. In this study, we provide evidence that freshly isolated Langerhans cells (LC), which are immature dendritic cells located in skin and mucosal epithelia, are susceptible to MV infection in vitro as assessed by viral antigen expression by both LC syncytia and LC remaining as single cells. Moreover, MV-infected LC completely block naive allogeneic CD4+ T cell proliferation in response to uninfected LC.
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