Breastfeeding and respiratory, ear and gastro-intestinal infections, in children, under the age of one year, admitted through the paediatric emergency departments of five hospitals.

Background: Breastfeeding is a protective factor against respiratory and intestinal infections in developing countries. In developed countries, proof of this protection is more difficult to show. The objective of the study is to compare the proportion of children breastfed during their first year in groups of children with infectious pathologies supposedly prevented by breastfeeding and children free of these infectious pathologies.

Long-term effects of citric acid-based bicarbonate haemodialysis on patient outcomes: a survival propensity score-matched study in western France.

Background: Citric acid-based bicarbonate haemodialysis (CIT-HD) has gained more clinical acceptance over the last few years in France and is a substitute for other acidifiers [e.g. acetic acid (CH3COOH) and hydrochloric acid (HCl)].

Outcomes of acute kidney injury depend on initial clinical features: a national French cohort study.

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common condition that is associated with poor short- and long-term outcomes. The aim of this nationwide cohort study was to profile the long-term outcome of patients admitted for AKI in France.

Methods: Based on the comprehensive French hospital discharge database, all hospitalizations for an AKI episode were categorized in four groups according to the presence of at least one dialysis session [renal replacement therapy (RRT)] and according to the coding of AKI as the principal or associated diagnosis (PRINC_DIAG or ASS_DIAG).

[Problems encountered by hospital pharmacists with information systems: Analysis of exchanges within social networks].

Objective: The development of information systems in French hospitals is mandatory. The aim of this work was to analyze the content of exchanges carried out within social networks, dealing with problems encountered with hospital pharmacies information systems.

Methods: Messages exchanged via the mailing list of the Association pour le Digital et l'Information en Pharmacie and abstracts of communications presented at hospital pharmacists trade union congresses were analyzed.

[Which information is given during the purchase of an HIV self-test in a Caen pharmacy? A Comprehensive transversal and observational study using surveys, without modification of practice].

Introduction: HIV infection affects about 150,000 people in France. In total, 30,000 of them are unaware of their serostatus. In this context, HIV self-testing has arrived in France in September 2015.

[Seronegative antiphospholipid syndrome, catastrophic syndrome, new anticoagulants: learning from a difficult case report].

Introduction: The diagnosis of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is based on clinical and biological criteria including the persistent presence of antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombotic events or pregnancy morbidity. Heparins relayed by vitamin K antagonists (VKA) are the gold standard treatment for thrombosis.

Case Report: We report a 17-year-old man who presented with an initially seronegative antiphospholipid syndrome, in whom the diagnosis was late, only obtained after anticoagulation withdrawing, when a catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) with cutaneous lesions and disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome occurred.

[Extracellular hydration status and residual urinary sodium excretion in chronic hemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional multicenter study].

Background: In dialysis patients, a misevaluation of dry weight may lead to an increased morbidity and mortality. The aim of this cross-sectional multicenter study was to evaluate the association between residual urinary sodium excretion and extracellular volume status in chronically treated hemodialysis patients.

Patients And Methods: Dry weight was determined clinically and by whole-body bioimpedance spectroscopy (Body Composition Monitor, Fresenius Medical Care) prior to a mid-week session in 40 chronic hemodialysis patients with significant residual diuresis (more than 250 mL per day) and receiving treatment in four dialysis centers.

Tocilizumab in the treatment of the adult-onset Still's disease: current clinical evidence.

This study aimed to review and analyze the effectiveness and safety of tocilizumab in the treatment of patients with adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD). We report on two patients with AOSD who were successfully treated with tocilizumab. All published information on the use of tocilizumab in this disease was also retrieved through a systematic review of the English-language literature.

[Lymphomatoid granulomatosis].

Lymphomatoid granulomatosis, described in 1972 by Liebow, is a rare, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated lymphoproliferative disorder, involving the lung, and often the skin or the central nervous system. It could have a systemic course making its diagnosis difficult. Controversy still remains about precise taxonomy and lymphomatoid granulomatosis is classified as a lymphoma, whose severity extends from indolent forms to aggressive large B cell lymphomas.

The onlay folded flap (OFF): a new technique for nasal tip surgery.

Background: In this article the onlay folded flap (OFF) is introduced as a new technique for reshaping, refining, supporting, and projecting the nasal tip by remodeling the cephalic portions of the lateral crura rather than canceling them. The surgical technique and the long-term outcomes are described. The indications, contraindications, advantages, and disadvantages are defined.

[Middle ear overpressure with Meniett in Menière disease: indications, results at short and middle terms in 53 cases].

Objectives: To expose the results obtained at short and middle terms and the tolerance of over pressure treatment with Meniett in Menière disease.

Materials And Methods: A pressure treatment using Meniett device was initiated for 53 patients suffering of unilateral or bilateral active Menière's disease, despite medical treatment and physiotherapy.

Results: Retrospective analysis of the data demonstrate i) no complications due to the tympanostomy tube, ii) with a 4 months follow up after the treatment, a total control or reduction of vertigo in respectively 65% and 24.

[Hereditary angioneurotic edema: a case report in a 3-year-old child].

Hereditary angioneurotic edema is a dominant autosomal disease (incidence 1/150,000), whose diagnosis is crucial as this condition can lead to fatal asphyxia within minutes. We report the case of a three-year-old girl, misdiagnosed as allergic asthma. Recognition of the syndrome led to adapted care restoring normal family and school life.

[Haemophilus influenzae bacterial meningitis: residual risk; case report].

Unlabelled: Bacterial meningitis due to Haemophilus influenzae has become a rare, albeit not exceptional occurrence since generalized vaccination against that pathogen was instated, concerning as well incapsulated b and non-b Haemophilus influenzae strains, as non-incapsulated strains.

Case Report: A 19-month-old fully immunized infant was referred to our hospital for bacterial meningitis. CSF analysis elicited biotype III, non-incapsulated Haemophilus influenzae.

[Pseudotumoral presentation of cat scratch disease].

Background: A frequent cause of chronic benign lymphadenopathy, cat-scratch disease (CSD) occurs mainly in children and young adults. Bartonella henselae is the agent responsible for CSD. The most common symptoms of the disease are regional lymphadenopathy and fever.