Increased incidence of Campylobacter enteritis and their quinolone resistance between 2010 and 2015: Results of a French national observatory conducted in 21 general hospitals (CHG).

Introduction: In Europe, the number of cases of Campylobacter enteritis and their quinolone resistance is increasing. The aims of this work were to evaluate: (1) the hospital epidemiology of bacterial enteritis between 2010 and 2015. (2) The proportion of Campylobacter and Salmonella enteritis.

Reduction of radiation exposure associated with renewal of the radiologic systems in coronary interventions.

Purpose: Interventional coronary procedures are an important source of radiation. This study sought to evaluate the effect of the renewal of the radiologic system on patient exposure during diagnostic coronary angiography (DCA) and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs).

Methods: DCA and PCIs were obtained from three centres, which renewed their radiologic systems during their participation in the multicentre prospective observational RAY'ACT-2 study.

Gastrosplenic Fistula with Gastrointestinal Bleeding: a Rare and Potentially Fatal Complication After Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Background: Although the surgical technique is safe and standardized, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is associated with serious and potentially life-threatening complications, such as gastric leak and bleeding.

Methods: In this retrospective study, three French university hospitals reviewed their experience with LSG. Between September 2014 and May 2016, three cases of gastrosplenic fistula complicated by massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (UGIH) were recorded.

Role of patient education in the perception and acceptance of home monitoring after recent implantation of cardioverter defibrillators: the EDUCAT study.

Background: Much attention is being paid to the education of and provision of medical information to patients, to optimize their understanding and acceptance of their disease.

Aims: To ascertain the impact of educating recent recipients of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) on their perception and acceptance of a home monitoring (HM) system.

Methods: Questionnaire 1, completed one month after ICD implantation, was designed to assess: the quality of patient preparation for HM; patient comprehension of HM; and patient anxiety experienced during its installation.

[Complement factor I deficiency revealed by repeated systemic Streptococcus pneumoniae infection].

Recurrent and serious otitis media, and 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteraemia episodes evoked an immune system deficiency in a 6-year-old girl. Upon investigation of the complement system, CH50 activity was moderately reduced and C4 antigen level was normal contrasting with low C3 antigen level. Factor 1 was undetectable.

Association between hospital-acquired infections and patients' transfers.

Objective: To assess the risk of nosocomial infection in transferred patients and to determine whether transfer is only a risk marker or is independently associated with nosocomial infection.

Design: Retrospective analysis.

Setting: A 400-bed general hospital in the Paris area.

[Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis: point evaluation of practices].

Compliance of prophylactic antimicrobial therapy (PAMT) in surgical patients with consensus-based recommendations was evaluated at the Montfermeil Hospital Center, France, in 1996, based on data for given days. All patients who had surgery on the study days were included. Data on the patient, surgery, and PAMT were collected.

[Specific features of nosocomial infections in the elderly at a general hospital center. 5 surveys of annual prevalence].

Specific features of nosocomial infections in patients aged 70 years or older admitted to a short-term care medical department in a 400-bed general hospital were studied to assist in designing nosocomial infection control programs for this population. Data from five annual prevalence surveys were evaluated retrospectively. The 517 patients aged 70 years or older were compared to the 1093 patients younger than 70 years.

[Amifostine: current and future applications in cytoprotection].

Originally developed against the effects of ionizing radiations, amifostine is an organic thiophosphate compound shown able to selectively protect normal tissues against cytotoxic agents in cellular and animal models, without protecting tumor tissues. Amifostine is a prodrug which is dephosphorylated into its active metabolite, a free thiol derivative, by membrane alkaline phosphatase of the target issue. This unique metabolism supports its cellular selectivity and its preferential uptake by normal tissues.

[Apropos of 2 cases of mucocele with major ophthalmologic complications treated by endoscopic endonasal surgery].

We report two cases of frontal and ethmoidal mucocele revealed by severe ophtalmologic complications and present the clinical data and computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging results together with the treatment. The surgical approach and technique are discussed. Recovery of ophtalmologic deficiency was excellent.

Pharmacokinetics and clinical study of cefotetan in bile: prophylactic use in biliary tract surgery.

The excretion of cefotetan, a 7 alpha-methoxy-cephalosporin, was studied in 27 patients undergoing biliary surgery. Pharmacokinetic parameters were determined after a single intravenous bolus dose of 1 g (10 patients) or 2 g (17 patients). Rapidly excreted in bile, cefotetan concentrations were considerably higher in bile [range: 92-2,594 mg.

[Induction of labor in the scarred uterus. 50 cases].

Fifty patients with a scarred uterus had labour induced with Oxytocics in the Maternity Hospital of Montfermeil, between 1987 and 1988. The criteria for selecting patients for vaginal delivery were those usually adopted and the induction of labour depended on the Bishop score. Fourty-two patients delivered vaginally with a low maternal morbidity (1 ruptured uterus without serious consequences, and no perinatal morbidity).