Clinical Impact of Flat Panel Volume CT Angiography in Evaluating the Accurate Intraoperative Deployment of Flow-Diverter Stents.

Background And Purpose: The deployment of flow-diverter stents may be difficult to analyse on regular DSA. The purpose of our study was to investigate the clinical impact of stent-dedicated flat panel volume CT angiography to evaluate intraoperatively the satisfactory deployment of flow-diverter stents.

Materials And Methods: From January 2009 to April 2015, 83 consecutive patients (mean age, 51 years; 62 women) were treated in our institution with flow-diverter stents.

Patients' preferences and economic considerations play an important role in treatment decisions: a discrete choice experiment among rheumatologists.

Objective: To evaluate to what extent rheumatologists consider economic aspects and patients' preferences when choosing drug treatments in patients with active RA.

Methods: In a discrete choice experiment, rheumatologists were asked to choose between two unlabelled drug treatment options for a hypothetical RA patient with moderate disease activity who failed two synthetic DMARDs. Attributes and levels of drug treatments were selected based on existing literature, rheumatologists' opinion and expert consensus.

Effectiveness of an Attachment-Based Intervention Program in Promoting Emotion Regulation and Attachment in Adolescent Mothers and their Infants: A Pilot Study.

This pilot study examined the effectiveness of an attachment-based intervention program, PRERAYMI, based on video technique, psychological counseling and developmental guidance in improving the style of interaction and emotion regulation of adolescent mothers and their infants after 3 and 6 months of intervention. Analyses revealed that adolescent mothers who participated in the intervention (vs. control group adolescent mothers) increased their Sensitivity and reduced their Controlling style after both 3 and 6 months of treatment.

Characterization of subgroups of heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction with possible implications for prognosis and treatment response.

Background: Patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) have a poor prognosis, and no therapies have been proven to improve outcomes. It has been proposed that heart failure, including HFpEF, represents overlapping syndromes that may have different prognoses. We present an exploratory study of patients enrolled in the Irbesartan in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Study (I-PRESERVE) using latent class analysis (LCA) with validation using the Candesartan in Heart failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM)-Preserved study to identify HFpEF subgroups.

Social signal processing for studying parent-infant interaction.

Studying early interactions is a core issue of infant development and psychopathology. Automatic social signal processing theoretically offers the possibility to extract and analyze communication by taking an integrative perspective, considering the multimodal nature and dynamics of behaviors (including synchrony). This paper proposes an explorative method to acquire and extract relevant social signals from a naturalistic early parent-infant interaction.

Dopaminergic modulation of emotional conflict in Parkinson's disease.

Neuropsychiatric fluctuations in Parkinson's disease (PD) are frequent and disabling. One way to investigate them is to assess the ability to inhibit distractive emotional information by a modified emotional Stroop (ES) task. We compared non-depressed, non-demented PD patients with healthy controls.

Virological and pharmacological factors associated with virological response to salvage therapy after an 8-week of treatment interruption in a context of very advanced HIV disease (GigHAART ANRS 097).

Both highly potent antiretroviral drug rescue multi therapy and treatment interruption (TI) have been suggested to be effective in HIV-1 infected-patients with multiple treatment failure. GigHAART-ANRS 097 was the only randomized trial during which an 8-week TI was beneficial in heavily pre-treated patients with multi-drug resistant virus on resuming a multiple-drug salvage regimen. The aim of this study was to analyze virological and pharmacological factors associated with a virological response.

Endoretinal biopsy in establishing the diagnosis of uveitis: a clinicopathologic report of three cases.

Purpose: To report the value of endoretinal biopsy in establishing the diagnosis of severe posterior uveitis.

Methods: A clinicopathologic report of three patients with severe posterior uveitis unresponsive to corticosteroids and with a negative systemic workup. These patients subsequently underwent vitrectomy and endoretinal biopsy.

Intra-arterial nimodipine for the treatment of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: preliminary results.

Background And Purpose: Cerebral vasospasm remains a major problem in patients recovering from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage despite advances in medical, surgical, and endovascular care. Our purpose was to assess the efficacy of intra-arterial nimodipine, a calcium-channel blocker acting mainly on cerebral vessels, in preventing delayed neurologic deficits in patients with symptomatic vasospasm.

Methods: Clinical charts of 25 consecutively treated patients were retrospectively reviewed.

Diagnosis of toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis with atypical clinical features.

Purpose: To determine the value of aqueous humor analysis for confirming the diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis in patients who present with atypical clinical features and to relate the results of local antibody production and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with the extent of active retinitis and the immune status of the patient.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Methods: Sixty-seven consecutive patients with retinitis or retinochoroiditis that was clinically consistent with atypical ocular toxoplasmosis underwent diagnostic anterior chamber paracentesis and serological studies.