[Ulipristal acetate: an emergency contraception extended to 5 days using a progesterone receptor modulator (Ellaone)].

Emergency contraception is a second chance for prevention of pregnancy after unprotected intercourse. Hormonal emergency contraception with levonorgestrel 1.5 mg, only provides an effective contraception from 0 to 72 hours after intercourse with decreasing effectiveness as time elapses.

[Letting the treating physicians speak].

Objective: Quality assessment in consultation and liaison psychiatry (CLP) is extremely difficult and must take into account numerous factors. The general practitioner (GP) of the patients seen by CL psychiatrists seems an essential factor to be considered in evaluating CL work. However, as far as we know, no study is doing so.

[Qualitative evaluation of medical compliance].

Objective: The effectiveness of CLP (Consultation and liaison psychiatry) interventions in a general hospital is difficult to evaluate; parameters potentially determinant as to effectiveness are numerous. Effectiveness evaluations are almost exclusively restricted to the duration of hospitalization. Since CLP may and often should be manifest beyond discharge, we intended to determine the agreement between our proposition and its execution as a measure of effectiveness.

[An experimental study of a cyanoacrylate biological adhesive in view of its use in the fixation of various fractures of the fingers].

Following certain interesting results reported in publications by researchers from the nineteen-sixties up to the present time, we decided to experiment a particular adhesive with high adhesive properties: this is composed of monomers of alpha-cyanoacrylate éthyl-2-alpha-cyanoacrylate. For this end, experiments were performed on 15 adult chickens, aged around 4 months, weighing 2 kg, divided into 5 groups of 3 chickens each. In each chicken, a rectangular bone fragment from the proximal-middle third of the tibia was prepared, completely separated, and then subsequently re-positioned and fixed with the adhesive plus collagen.

[Mucosal flaps in the treatment of anal fistula].

Results in the treatment of transsphincteric et suprasphincteric fistulae have been greatly improved with the use of mucosal sliding flaps. The aims of this surgical procedure are: division of the fistulous tract from the primary opening within the anal canal, closure of the primary opening to prevent any repermeabilisation of the tract, excision and curettage of fistulous tract without section of the sphincters. Technical details of this procedure and results achieved in the treatment of 30 consecutive cases are reported.

[How to prescribe treatment for an asthmatic patient].

The quality of life of an asthmatic patient is dependent of a regular use of appropriate drugs and preventive measures, both applied for a short as well as a long term course. The efficacy of the treatment will be dependent not only on the choice of the drugs, but also on the therapeutic observance or compliance, itself relying upon the patient's motivation for an improvement in his health and also to the way of teaching during the prescription of the treatment.