Publications by authors named "Touraine F"

Article Synopsis
  • Hymenoptera venom allergy significantly affects quality of life, and while allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is effective, predicting its success remains challenging due to a lack of biomarkers.
  • This study analyzed patient data from 1985 to 2022 at the University Hospital of Limoges to assess the role of IgE blocking activity as a potential predictor of AIT efficacy against Hymenoptera venom.
  • Results indicated that IgE blocking activity did not predict relapse after stopping AIT, but a correlation was found between this activity and IgG antibody levels, suggesting that further research is needed to explore the role of these antibodies in monitoring treatment outcomes.
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Background: A major problem of venom-specific immunotherapy (VIT) is the absence of reliable parameters for deciding treatment discontinuation.

Aim Of The Study: Intracutaneous tests (ICTs), the basophil activation test (BAT), specific IgEs (sIgEs) and blocking factor (BF) activity were measured during VIT. We made an evaluation by means of a protective index (PI) including ICT, BAT and BF values.

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Glioblastoma is the most common form of primary brain cancer. Its treatment involves surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy with temozolomide (tmz), which is an oral alkylating agent. To the best of our knowledge, few dermatologic side effects of tmz have been described.

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Described by Reich and Johnson in 1992 [2], the Lady Windermere syndrome occurs exclusively in non-smoking women over the age of 60 years, without significant pre-existing pulmonary disease. It comprises bronchial dilatation, typically in the middle lobe and lingula, together with secondary infection by atypical mycobacteria (Mycobacterium avium in the first cases). Among the 17 cases of atypical mycobacterial infection that we have seen in the past 14 years, there were seven cases of this syndrome.

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Objective And Design: The aim of this study was to compare the use of a late (CD63) and an early (IgE) marker of basophil activation in the flow cytometric diagnosis of beta-lactam induced allergic hypersensitivity reactions.

Subjects: Twelve patients who had had a clear cut betalactam induced immediate reaction and 16 controls were selected, as well as 11 patients who had had an immediate reaction to bee or wasp stings.

Methods: Leukocyte suspensions were incubated with allergen dilutions as well as 2 positive controls (anti-IgE and NFormyl- Methionyl-Leucyl-Phenylalanine (fMLP)).

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Introduction: We report two cases occurring in 2004 of patients being treated for pleural mesothelioma with a combination of cisplatin or carboplatin and pemetrexed. Investigation by skin tests and flow cytometry confirmed the clinical diagnosis in both cases.

Case Reports: Case 1: a man of 62 developed, after 12 courses of cisplatin-pemetrexed, an anaphylactic reaction 5 minutes after the infusion of cisplatin.

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Objective: Among obstetricians and midwives, estimate the percentage of smokers, appraise the proportion of medical professionals who mention the subject of nicotine addiction to their pregnant patients, and assess the quality of the information delivered to patients as well as their own experience in the field of tobacology.

Patients And Methods: Between February and March 2002, 188 postal questionnaires were sent to obstetricians and gynecologists, midwives and midwife students of public hospitals in Limousin and private clinics in Limoges.

Results: The response rate was 75,5% (142 answers) and the median age was 37 years old (20-59).

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According to physician, Aspirin and NSAIDS hypersensitivity are causing three major problems: how to make the diagnosis? Which treatment are to he given to these patients? What kind of anti-inflammatory drugs are to be prescribed? For these last three years, several articles regarding these matters were being published.

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Pets must be considered allergy factors. They are not advised for atopic families. However some recent publications suggest a protective effect of cat and dog exposure in the first year of life.

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107 patients have discontinued Hymenoptera venom immunotherapy between 1988 and 2000. 31 have been seen again with intradermal tests with IgEs, and 81 responded to a questionnaire. Intradermal reactions and IgEs decrease together significantly during immunotherapy and then persist at low level during three years.

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Risperidone is an atypical neuroleptic which has been incriminated as a cause of respiratory symptoms. The purpose of this prospective study was to assess over a three-month period the respiratory status of patients free of allergic or respiratory disease treated with risperidone. Thirty-nine patients were enrolled.

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Background: No standard treatment is defined for elderly patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Carboplatin and etoposide are highly active agents against SCLC. In this study, we evaluated the activity and toxicity of a combination of these two agents.

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Chronic obstructive bronchiolitis with organizing lung disease is an anatomoradioclinical entity characterized by nonspecific inflammation associated with recurrent migratory minimally dense alveolar opacities on the chest x-ray poorly responsive to corticosteroid therapy. Excepting this typical presentation, other clinical forms may occur. We report the cases of two patients with an exceptional localized presentation raising the differential diagnosis of lung cancer.

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Thoracic infection by anaerobes are uncommon diseases and often presents difficulty in diagnosis. We report a case of thoracic infection due to Fusobacterium Nucleatum. A 60-year old man presented a lesion infiltrating from the lung to the thoracic wall.

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At present it is conceivable to think that gene therapy represents a way to treat or even prevent the respiratory manifestations of cystic fibrosis. Consistent to such a concept, there is sufficient evidence that Ad-CFTR, a recombinant replication-deficient adenovirus expressing the human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator cDNA, can vectorize the expression of a functional CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) to the nasal and airway epithelia. The clinical protocol was designed to assess the safety of single escalating doses of a replication defective adenovirus expressing the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene (Ad-CFTR) when administered to the tracheobronchial portion of the airways and whether biological efficacy of CFTR delivery could be demonstrated.

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Cough is known to be the major respiratory side effect of treatment with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI). Recently, ACEI have been implicated in drug-induced lung disease. We report a new case of diffuse pneumonitis which occurred during treatment with ACEI.

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Over the last 18 years, we have developed the transplantation of fetal liver cells to treat severe immunodeficiencies, hematological disorders and inborn errors of metabolism. Post-natally, this treatment is successful in two-third of patients and it is therefore very valuable, especially when there is no perfectly matched donor for a bone marrow transplant. Since 1988 we have carried out these fetal liver transplants (FLTs) in utero, immediately after prenatal diagnosis.

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In order to evaluate the reliability of CD4 and CD8 T lymphocyte counts in large scale studies, a quality control study was performed in 12 French laboratories. CD4 and CD8 counts, assessed by various haematological and immunological techniques, were compared in order to assess possible differences between the laboratories and the techniques used. Our data showed that (a) the consistency of CD4 measurements was satisfactory since the between-laboratory coefficient of variation for absolute CD4 cell numbers above 200/mm3 was around 15% instead of 5-10% for all laboratories but one; (b) the major sources of variability arose from the use of automatic devices in the two-step measurement procedure: immunophenotyping and haematological counting.

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