Publications by authors named "Villain M"

Purpose: To investigate retinal microvascular changes in ischemic stroke patients using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) and assess these alterations based on stroke etiology.

Methods: Case-control study conducted at Montpellier University Hospital from May 2021 to March 2022 (IRB: 202000607). Retinal vascular features were compared between strokes patients and age- and sex- matched controls.

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Introduction: The aim of the study was to evaluate clinical and biometric factors leading to a prediction error related to lens position in pars plana vitrectomy.

Methods: This study was conducted as a consecutive retrospective case series at the Department of Ophthalmology, Montpellier University Hospital. All medical files and PCI biometrical reports from a single surgeon were reviewed from 2017 to 2019.

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Purpose: To assess the risk factors for pain during cataract surgery under local anesthesia.

Methods: This multicentric observational study assessed risk factors for pain during cataract surgery from June to November 2020 in a private clinic and two university hospitals (France). Adults who underwent cataract surgery under local anesthesia with conscious sedation were consecutively included.

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  • Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is linked to chronic headaches driven by high intracranial pressure (ICP) and potentially influenced by cerebral venous sinus pressure, which needs more research to understand their relationship.
  • A study investigated 52 patients suspected of having IIH, measuring both lumbar puncture opening pressure (LPOP) and cerebral venous sinus pressure, finding strong correlations between these measurements.
  • Results confirmed that the torcular pressure aligns closely with LPOP, indicating that these two methods are consistent for assessing ICP in IIH patients, which can help in clinical decision-making.
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Background: Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a rare complication of spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH). Therefore, its correct diagnosis and the corresponding optimal treatment-management identification remains challenging.

Methods: Over the last 10 years, 300 patients received a definite SIH diagnosis at our stroke center.

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After a right hemisphere stroke, more than half of the patients are impaired in their capacity to produce or comprehend speech prosody. Yet, and despite its social-cognitive consequences for patients, aprosodia following stroke has received scant attention. In this report, we introduce a novel, simple psychophysical procedure which, by combining systematic digital manipulations of speech stimuli and reverse-correlation analysis, allows estimating the internal sensory representations that subtend how individual patients perceive speech prosody, and the level of internal noise that govern behavioral variability in how patients apply these representations.

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Purpose: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can enhance aphasia recovery. Most studies have used inhibitory stimulation targeting the right inferior frontal gyrus. However, the motor cortex, observed to contribute to the prediction of aphasia recovery, is involved in word production and could be an appropriate target for rTMS.

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Purpose: Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. The brain and eye share many characteristics, so the eye may provide an easy-access window on brain processes. The aim of the study was to evaluate the link between glaucoma as well as intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering drops load and all-cause dementia.

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Background: Despite its potentially significant functional and emotional impact, acalculia is still too rarely assessed and managed by speech and language therapists. Research on the rehabilitation of numerical transcoding remains scarce in the literature and, despite positive results, presents a low level of evidence.

Aims: The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a targeted rehabilitation of numerical transcoding in two patients suffering from a chronic secondary acalculia.

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Diffuse gliomas significantly affect patients' daily lives. Because of the high risk of recurrence and anaplasic transformation, repeated surgery can be proposed in awake condition to prolongs overall survival by limiting and reducing residual tumour volume. However, oncological interest alone is no longer sufficient due to the consequent increase in median survival, and quality of life is becoming an important issue in clinical decision-making.

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Linker stability is critically important for the efficacy and safety of peptide and protein conjugates used for biological applications. One common conjugation strategy, thiol-maleimide coupling, generates a succinimidyl thioether linker with limited stability under physiological conditions. We have shown in previous work that when a peptide with an N-terminal cysteine is conjugated to a maleimide reagent, a thiazine structure is formed via a chemical rearrangement.

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Introduction: The aims of this study were to study ocular biometric data and their association with age and sex in a population of cataract surgery candidates and to assess the proportion of inhomogeneous eyes and the ratio anterior segment (AS) to axial length (AL). Multicentric cross-sectional analysis was conducted between April 2008 and May 2021 in public and private ophthalmic institutions in Montpellier, France. Individuals ≥40 years old who underwent ocular biometry before cataract surgery were included.

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Purpose: To evaluate risk factors associated with keratoconus in a monocentric cross-sectional case-control study.

Methods: This observational study occurred from June 2019 to February 2021 in a university hospital (France). The case group consisted of 195 patients with keratoconus in at least one eye who were followed up by a corneal specialist.

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Purpose: To assess risk factors of rejection after penetrating keratoplasty (PKP).

Methods: This retrospective monocentric study assessed risk factors for rejection in patients who underwent PKP at Montpellier University Hospital between June 2005 and September 2018. Graft and donor data were obtained from our tissue bank in Montpellier.

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Purpose: Obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Bariatric surgery (BS) improves the clinical and metabolic profile. Retinal caliber changes could precede cardiovascular events.

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Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk and the retinal microcirculation is a reflection of the systemic microcirculation. Is the retinal microcirculation altered in relation to the severity of Crohn's disease? This cross-sectional case-controlled study was conducted in a university hospital center from November 2020 to February 2021. We prospectively included patients with moderate (biologic therapy) or severe (biologic therapy + peri-anal disease and/or digestive resection) CD and age- and sex-matched controls.

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Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI), especially to the right hemisphere, can result in difficulty using or understanding prosodic contours in speech. Prosody is used to convey emotional connotation or linguistic intent and includes pitch, loudness, rate, and voice quality. A disorder in the comprehension or production of prosody is known as aprosodia; despite the communication disability caused by prosodic disorders, the assessment and treatment of aprosodia following ABI has received scant attention.

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Purpose: Cataract and glaucoma are among the leading causes of blindness worldwide in older people, and they are often concomitant. To assess topical intraocular (IOP)-lowering agents delivery changes after cataract extraction.

Material And Methods: Longitudinal matched exposed-unexposed study from the French national healthcare database from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2017.

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Objective: Post-stroke depression is a frequent complication of stroke that has detrimental consequences for quality of life and functional outcomes. Daily life routines may increase feelings of security for some individuals confronted with age-related health concerns, but little information is available concerning their role following stroke. The aim of this investigation was to examine the association of depression and other psychological variables at hospitalization for stroke and behavioral routines and mood symptoms three months later using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA).

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Precis: Micropulse transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (MP-TSCPC) with a 120-second setting reduces intraocular pressure (IOP) with a 6-month success of 45.5%. Only late (>6 mo) failure seem to present a benefit for retreatment.

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Thiazine formation during the conjugation of N-terminal cysteine peptides to maleimides is an underreported side reaction in the peptide literature. When the conjugation was performed at neutral and basic pH, we observed the thiazine isomer as a significant by-product. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy confirmed the structure of the six-membered thiazine and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) combined with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) allowed for facile, unambiguous detection due to a unique thiazine mass fragment.

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