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What Do I Do if the Valve Don't Pass? Use a Snare Catheter!

Clin Case Rep

December 2024

Department of Cardiology Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital Center, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne University Clermont-Ferrand France.

We report a case of a complex transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) complicated by severe calcifications, which prevented the delivery system from advancing through the aortic valve. To address this challenge, we employed an innovative solution using a Snare catheter. This approach enabled stabilization and guidance of the delivery system, facilitating the crossing of the calcified obstruction and the successful completion of the procedure.

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  • The NeckTAR trial is a research study that looks at a new way to check if patients with head and neck cancer still have disease after treatment by testing for special DNA in their blood.
  • It will involve blood tests before and three months after treatment for 32 patients at four different places in France.
  • The goal is to help doctors decide whether they need to perform surgery to remove lymph nodes, which could help patients avoid unnecessary operations and improve their quality of life.
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Introduction: Maternal pushing techniques during the second stage of labor may affect women's pelvic floor function. Our main objective was to assess the impact of the type of pushing used at delivery on the mother's medium-term pelvic floor function.

Material And Methods: This is a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial (clinicaltrials.

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Background: The rate of toxic deaths related to induction chemotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced head and neck cancers is unacceptable and calls into question this therapeutic strategy, which is however highly effective in terms of rate and speed of response. The purpose of the study was to investigate predictive factors of toxicity of induction chemotherapy with docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil (TPF) in locally advanced head and neck cancers (LAHNC).

Methods: Between June 2009 and December 2017, 113 patients treated consecutively with TPF were included retrospectively.

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Overview of biologic treatments in the elderly.

Joint Bone Spine

May 2015

CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Electronic address:

As life expectancies rise, the number of elderly people with inflammatory rheumatic diseases will continue to grow. Treatment of this frail population, whose clinical features differ from those of younger subjects, poses new challenges to healthcare systems. However, this issue is rarely addressed in the current literature.

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