Effect of adding vildagliptin to insulin in haemodialysed patients with type 2 diabetes: The VILDDIAL study, a randomized, multicentre, prospective study.

Aim: To evaluate the effect of adding the dipeptidyl-peptidase-4 inhibitor vildagliptin to insulin on the glycaemic control of patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing haemodialysis.

Methods: Overall, 65 insulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing haemodialysis (HbA1c: 7.3% ± 1.

Risk of malignancy on suspicion of polyps in menopausal women.

Unlabelled: Improved performances in gynaecological ultrasonography have enabled an increasing number of often asymptomatic endometrial polyps to be detected. Most of these polyps are removed surgically, as a precautionary measure, so as not to miss a case of endometrial cancer. Nonetheless, this management strategy is based solely on the sonographer's judgement and a number of these operations, which are probably of no benefit, could be avoided.

A comparison of vaginal ultrasound and digital examination in predicting preterm delivery in women with threatened preterm labor: a cohort study.

Introduction: The aim of this study is to evaluate the utility of digital examination in addition to ultrasonic measurement of cervical length for predicting spontaneous preterm delivery in women with threatened preterm labor.

Material And Methods: This was a prospective cohort study in Strasbourg University Hospital, France, between January 2013 and January 2015. All women with a singleton pregnancy hospitalized with threatened preterm labor between 23 and 34 weeks of gestation were included.

Acupuncture version of breech presentation: a randomized sham-controlled single-blinded trial.

Background: Several studies have investigated the efficacy of moxibustion with or without acupuncture for fetal version, but the results are discordant. Meta-analyses pointed out the need for robust, methodologically sound, randomized controlled trials.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture with fire needling on acupoint BL67 for version of breech presentation.

Treatment of a Fetal Tracheal Obstruction by Fetoscopy and Laser.

We report below a case of in utero tracheoscopy with laser collapse of a bronchogenic cyst obstructing the fetal trachea. The patient was referred for ultrasonography at 24 weeks of gestation because of fetal hydrops. Tracheoscopy was performed via fetoscopic approach using a single trocar under local anesthesia with lidocaine and ultrasound guidance.

Evaluation of prenatal and postnatal diagnostic criteria for twin anemia-polycythemia sequence.

Objective: The aim of this study is to analyze the relevance of the prenatal and postnatal diagnostic parameters of twin anemia-polycythemia sequence (TAPS).

Methods: Diagnostic data of all cases of TAPS followed in our institution between 2006 and 2013 were reviewed. Statistical analyses were conducted using Bayesian methods.

Predictive value of cardiovascular parameters in stages 1 and 2 of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

Objective: The Quintero staging of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) does not include a comprehensive cardiovascular assessment. The aim of this study is to assess the predictive value of the myocardial performance index (MPI) and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) score on recipient survival in Quintero stages 1 and 2 TTTS.

Methods: The cohort study was based on prospectively collected data between May 2008 and February 2013 in a population of stages 1 and 2 TTTS.

Predictive value of cardiovascular parameters in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic value of the Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia (CHOP) cardiovascular score and the modified myocardial performance index (MPI), in determining the risk of recipient fetal loss in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS).

Methods: This cohort study was based on data collected prospectively from 105 pregnancies complicated by TTTS (Quintero stages I-IV) and treated with laser photocoagulation between May 2008 and February 2013. Fetuses underwent detailed anatomical and Doppler ultrasonography with cardiac assessment as part of routine care.