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Henry AL, González E, Bourgeois B, Sher AA. Invasive tree cover covaries with environmental factors to explain the functional composition of riparian plant communities. Oecologia 2021; 196:1139-1152. [PMID: 34331568 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-04990-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Invasive species are a major cause of biodiversity loss worldwide, but their impact on communities and the mechanisms driving those impacts are varied and not well understood. This study employs functional diversity metrics and guilds-suites of species with similar traits-to assess the influence of an invasive tree (Tamarix spp.) on riparian plant communities in the southwestern United States. We asked: (1) What traits define riparian plant guilds in this system? (2) How do the abundances of guilds vary along gradients of Tamarix cover and abiotic conditions? (3) How does the functional diversity of the plant community respond to the gradients of Tamarix cover and abiotic conditions? We found nine distinct guilds primarily defined by reproductive strategy, as well as growth form, height, seed weight, specific leaf area, drought and anaerobic tolerance. Guild abundance varied along a covarying gradient of local and regional environmental factors and Tamarix cover. Guilds relying on sexual reproduction, in particular, those producing many light seeds over a long period of time were more strongly associated with drier sites and higher Tamarix cover. Tamarix itself appeared to facilitate more shade-tolerant species with higher specific leaf areas than would be expected in resource-poor environments. Additionally, we found a high degree of specialization (low functional diversity) in the wettest, most flood-prone, lowest Tamarix cover sites as well as in the driest, most stable, highest Tamarix cover sites. These guilds can be used to anticipate plant community response to restoration efforts and in selecting appropriate species for revegetation.
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- A L Henry
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
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Sereir AS, Bourgeois B, Incagnoli P. Douleur cervicale avec paresthésies révélant une dissection carotidienne spontanée. Ann Fr Med Urgence 2020. [DOI: 10.3166/afmu-2019-0189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Heymsfield SB, Peterson CM, Bourgeois B, Thomas DM, Gallagher D, Strauss B, Müller MJ, Bosy-Westphal A. Human energy expenditure: advances in organ-tissue prediction models. Obes Rev 2018; 19:1177-1188. [PMID: 30035381 PMCID: PMC6107421 DOI: 10.1111/obr.12718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Revised: 04/23/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Humans expend energy at rest (REE), and this major energy exchange component is now usually estimated using statistical equations that include weight and other predictor variables. While these formulas are useful in evaluating an individual's or group's REE, an important gap remains: available statistical models are inadequate for explaining underlying organ-specific and tissue-specific mechanisms accounting for resting heat production. The lack of such systems level REE prediction models leaves many research questions unanswered. A potential approach that can fill this gap began with investigators who first showed in animals and later in humans that REE reflects the summated heat production rates of individual organs and tissues. Today, using advanced imaging technologies, REE can be accurately estimated from the measured in vivo mass of 10 organ-tissue mass components combined with their respective mass-specific metabolic rates. This review examines the next frontier of energy expenditure models and discusses how organ-tissue models have the potential not only to better predict REE but also to provide insights into how perturbations in organ mass lead to structure-function changes across other interacting organ systems. The introductory ideas advanced in this review provide a framework for future human energy expenditure modelling research.
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- S B Heymsfield
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy West Point, West Point, NY, USA
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- College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Dept. of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Australia and Institute of Inflammation and Repair, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Christian-Albrecht's-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Christian-Albrecht's-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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Bourgeois B, Ng BK, Latimer D, Stannard CR, Romeo L, Li X, Shepherd JA, Heymsfield SB. Clinically applicable optical imaging technology for body size and shape analysis: comparison of systems differing in design. Eur J Clin Nutr 2017; 71:1329-1335. [PMID: 28876331 PMCID: PMC7199549 DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2017.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Recent advances have extended anthropometry beyond flexible tape measurements to automated three-dimensional optical devices that rapidly acquire hundreds of body surface dimensions. Three new devices were recently introduced that share in common inexpensive optical cameras. The design, and thus potential clinical applicability, of these systems differ substantially leading us to critically evaluate their accuracy and precision. SUBJECTS/METHODS 113 adult subjects completed evaluations by the three optical devices (KX-16 (16 stationary cameras), Proscanner (1 vertically oscillating camera), and Styku scanner (1 stationary camera)), air displacement plethysmography (ADP), dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and a flexible tape measure. Optical measurements were compared to reference method estimates that included results acquired by flexible tape, DXA and ADP. RESULTS Optical devices provided respective circumference and regional volume estimates that overall were well-correlated with those obtained from flexible tape measurements (for example, hip circumference: R2, 0.91, 0.90, 0.96 for the KX-16, Proscanner, and Styku scanner, respectively) and DXA (for example, trunk volume: R2, 0.97, 0.97, and 0.98). Total body volumes measured by the optical devices were highly correlated with those from the ADP system (all R2s, 0.99). Coefficient of variations obtained from duplicate measurements (n, 55) were larger in optical than in reference measurements and significant (P<0.05) bias was present for some optical measurements relative to reference method estimates. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the evaluated optical imaging systems differing in design provided body surface measurements that compared favorably with corresponding reference methods. However, our evaluations uncovered system measurement limitations, such as discrepancies in landmarking, that with correction have the potential to improve future developed devices.
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- B Bourgeois
- Department of Metabolism and Body Composition, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Metabolism and Body Composition, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Metabolism and Body Composition, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Heymsfield SB, Bourgeois B, Thomas DM. Assessment of human energy exchange: historical overview. Eur J Clin Nutr 2016; 71:294-300. [DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2016.221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Parvizi J, Le S, Foster BL, Bourgeois B, Riviello JJ, Prenger E, Saper C, Kerrigan JF. Gelastic epilepsy and hypothalamic hamartomas: neuroanatomical analysis of brain lesions in 100 patients. Brain 2011; 134:2960-8. [DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Fabriol H, Bitri A, Bourgeois B, Delatre M, Girard J, Pajot G, Rohmer J. Geophysical methods for CO2 plume imaging: Comparison of performances. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Incagnoli P, Bourgeois B, Teboul A, Laborie JM. [Resuscitation from accidental hypothermia of 22 degrees C with circulatory arrest: importance of prehospital management]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 25:535-8. [PMID: 16516435 DOI: 10.1016/j.annfar.2006.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2005] [Accepted: 01/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In winter, French Medicalised Ambulance Service rescued a 50-year-old patient after suicide attempts by jump from a bridge in the Seine. The body was discovered after more than 10 minutes of immersion. She was unconscious and in deep hypothermia with circulatory arrest. Basic CPR was started immediately and oral intubation and 100% oxygen ventilation was performed. Ventricular fibrillation appeared but repeated defibrillation failed due to profound hypothermia (rectal temperature: 28 degrees C). The patient was immediately transported to hospital. CPR and mechanical ventilation was continued during transport. The patient was taken in emergency room. The oesophageal temperature was 22 degrees C. Rewarming using extracorporeal circulation was immediately initiated after insertion of femoral access. At 27 degrees C, ventricular fibrillation started and was converted by external defibrillation to a pulse-generating cardiac rhythm. At 360 minutes, the patient's rectal temperature had reached 36 degrees C and she was disconnected from cardiopulmonary bypass with inotropic support. She was transferred to the intensive care unit after 9 hours of resuscitation, rewarming and stabilisation. Mechanical ventilation was needed for 15 days because of adult respiratory distress syndrome. Renal failure, pneumonia also occurred. She was successfully extubated on day 15 and was discharged from intensive care unit on day 21, suffering no neurological side effects.
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- P Incagnoli
- Service d'anesthésie cardiovasculaire, département d'anesthésie-réanimation-II, CHU de Grenoble, hôpital Michallon, BP 207, 38043 Grenoble cedex 09, France.
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Bourgeois B, Ferron C, Bordure P, Beauvillain de Montreuil C, Legent F. [Exploratory tympanotomy for suspected traumatic perilymphatic fistula]. Ann Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac 2005; 122:181-6. [PMID: 16230938 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-438x(05)82346-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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UNLABELLED Firstly reported after stapedectomy, perilymph fistula (PLF), may occur due to trauma. AIM Preoperative symptoms and therapeutic results are described and analyzed after exploratory tympanotomy for traumatic PLF. MATERIAL AND METHODS Traumatic PLF was investigated in 90 patients (97 examinations) by exploratory tympanotomy at the Nantes University Hospital from 1995 to 1999. Preoperative symptoms were recorded and compared to results of tympanotomy to determine their diagnostic value. Similarly post-operative recovery was compared to results of tympanotomy. RESULTS This study showed the value of two symptoms: aural fullness and balance disturbance. During each surgical procedure, systematic grafting was performed even if fistulization was unapparent. The best results were achieved for vestibular symptoms and concerned more vertigo than auditory symptoms. There was no significant difference in postoperative symptoms, between patients with a leak and patients without a leak. CONCLUSION This demonstrates that the oval and round window should be grafted with connective tissue when an exploratory tympanotomy is performed.
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- B Bourgeois
- Hôtel Dieu, 1 place A.Ricordeau 44000 Nantes.
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Bourgeois B, Incagnoli P, Hanna J, Tirard V. [Nerium oleander self poisoning treated with digoxin-specific antibodies]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 24:640-2. [PMID: 15921882 DOI: 10.1016/j.annfar.2005.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2005] [Accepted: 04/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A chronically depressed 44-year-old man was rescued by the French medicalised ambulance service four hours after the ingestion of Nerium oleander leaves in a suicide attempt. Cardiotoxicity was evidenced by the presence of bradycardia with mental confusion and vomiting. The patient was empirically treated in the prehospital phase with a single dose of digoxin-specific Fab antibody fragments (Digidot). In spite of this treatment, the patient presented a new episode of important bradycardia (25 b/minute). Thereafter, the patient's rhythm stabilized and neurological signs and vomiting resolved. The patient recovered uneventfully and was discharged from the intensive care unit two days later.
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- B Bourgeois
- Samu de Grenoble, CHU de Grenoble, BP 207, 38043 Grenoble, France.
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French JA, Kanner AM, Bautista J, Abou-Khalil B, Browne T, Harden CL, Theodore WH, Bazil C, Stern J, Schachter SC, Bergen D, Hirtz D, Montouris GD, Nespeca M, Gidal B, Marks WJ, Turk WR, Fischer JH, Bourgeois B, Wilner A, Faught RE, Sachdeo RC, Beydoun A, Glauser TA. Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs I: treatment of new onset epilepsy: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee and Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. Neurology 2004; 62:1252-60. [PMID: 15111659 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000123693.82339.fc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 333] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To assess the evidence demonstrating efficacy, tolerability, and safety of seven new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) (gabapentin, lamotrigine, topiramate, tiagabine, oxcarbazepine, levetiracetam, and zonisamide-reviewed in the order in which these agents received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration) in the treatment of children and adults with newly diagnosed partial and generalized epilepsies. METHODS A 23-member committee, including general neurologists, pediatric neurologists, epileptologists, and doctors in pharmacy, evaluated the available evidence based on a structured literature review including MEDLINE, Current Contents, and Cochrane library for relevant articles from 1987 until September 2002, with selected manual searches up until 2003. RESULTS There is evidence either from comparative or dose-controlled trials that gabapentin, lamotrigine, topiramate, and oxcarbazepine have efficacy as monotherapy in newly diagnosed adolescents and adults with either partial or mixed seizure disorders. There is also evidence that lamotrigine is effective for newly diagnosed absence seizures in children. Evidence for effectiveness of the new AEDs in newly diagnosed patients with other generalized epilepsy syndromes is lacking. CONCLUSIONS The results of this evidence-based assessment provide guidelines for the prescription of AEDs for patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy and identify those seizure types and syndromes where more evidence is necessary.
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- J A French
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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French JA, Kanner AM, Bautista J, Abou-Khalil B, Browne T, Harden CL, Theodore WH, Bazil C, Stern J, Schachter SC, Bergen D, Hirtz D, Montouris GD, Nespeca M, Gidal B, Marks WJ, Turk WR, Fischer JH, Bourgeois B, Wilner A, Faught RE, Sachdeo RC, Beydoun A, Glauser TA. Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs II: Treatment of refractory epilepsy: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee and Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. Neurology 2004; 62:1261-73. [PMID: 15111660 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000123695.22623.32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 303] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To assess the evidence demonstrating efficacy, tolerability, and safety of seven new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) (gabapentin, lamotrigine, topiramate, tiagabine, oxcarbazepine, levetiracetam, and zonisamide) in the treatment of children and adults with refractory partial and generalized epilepsies. METHODS A 23-member committee including general neurologists, pediatric neurologists, epileptologists, and doctors in pharmacy evaluated the available evidence based on a structured literature review including MEDLINE, Current Contents, and Cochrane library for relevant articles from 1987 until March 2003. RESULTS All of the new AEDs were found to be appropriate for adjunctive treatment of refractory partial seizures in adults. Gabapentin can be effective for the treatment of mixed seizure disorders, and gabapentin, lamotrigine, oxcarbazepine, and topiramate for the treatment of refractory partial seizures in children. Limited evidence suggests that lamotrigine and topiramate are also effective for adjunctive treatment of idiopathic generalized epilepsy in adults and children, as well as treatment of the Lennox Gastaut syndrome. CONCLUSIONS The choice of AED depends upon seizure and/or syndrome type, patient age, concomitant medications, AED tolerability, safety, and efficacy. The results of this evidence-based assessment provide guidelines for the prescription of AEDs for patients with refractory epilepsy and identify those seizure types and syndromes where more evidence is necessary.
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- J A French
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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Knake S, Grant PE, Shiraishi H, Stufflebeam S, Morand S, Hara K, Schomer DL, Bromfield EB, Bourgeois B, Cole A, Dale A, Halgren E. Multimodale Bildgebung (3 T-MRT, 3 T-DTI, automatisierte quantitative Analysemethoden, 306-Kanal-MEG und -EEG) verbessert die prächirurgische Diagnostik von Patienten mit fokalen Epilepsien: eine prospektive Studie mit 50 Patienten. KLIN NEUROPHYSIOL 2003. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-816468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Bourgeois B, Laboux O, Obadia L, Gauthier O, Betti E, Aguado E, Daculsi G, Bouler JM. Calcium-deficient apatite: a first in vivo study concerning bone ingrowth. J Biomed Mater Res A 2003; 65:402-8. [PMID: 12746888 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.10518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) materials are increasingly used to restore bone loss in surgery. Calcium-deficient apatites (CDA), the precursors of BCP, are closer in structure to biological apatites and can be associated with therapeutic agents to form drug-delivery systems. The purpose of this first in vivo study of CDA was to evaluate the osteoconductive properties of two composites, consisting of 40-80 microm granules carried by a cellulose-derived polymer, used to fill critical size bone defects in rabbit femoral ends. Animals were sacrificed 2 or 3 weeks after implantation. Histomorphometric analysis of scanning electron microscopy implant surface files was performed using gray level threshold that distinguish between bone or materials (white) and noncalcified tissue (black). Quantitative results for new bone formation showed no significant differences between the composites or the implantation periods. However, nearly all of the CDA disappeared early while supporting more extensive bone colonization than biphasic calcium phosphates implanted in the same conditions.
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- B Bourgeois
- Equipe Mixte INSERM 99-03 Matériaux d'Intérêt Biologique, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, BP 84215-44042 Nantes Cedex 1, France
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Schiano P, Bourgeois B, Richard P, Belaouchi F, Monsegu J, Allouch P, Spaulding C. [Iodic allergic reaction with vasospasm occluded coronary during coronarography]. Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris) 2002; 51:382-5. [PMID: 12608133 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3928(02)00122-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Coronary vasospasm is infrequent during anaphylaxis reaction. The authors describe a severe coronary spasm following iodine allergic reaction and then should to explain the physiopathology of this complication.
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- P Schiano
- Service de cardiologie, CHU Cochin-Port-Royal, 27, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France.
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Lane SD, Cibula DA, Milano LP, Shaw M, Bourgeois B, Schweitzer F, Steiner C, Dygert K, DeMott K, Wilson K, Gregg R, Webster N, Milton D, Aubry R, Novick LF. Racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality: risk in social context. J Public Health Manag Pract 2001; 7:30-46. [PMID: 11338084 DOI: 10.1097/00124784-200107030-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This article presents the multifaceted efforts of Syracuse Healthy Start, a federally funded initiative of the Onondaga County Health Department and over 20 partnering agencies to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality. The analyses presented in this article demonstrate that many women--Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic--have serious risks for low birth weight and infant death. In many cases, multiple, simultaneous risks complicate a pregnant woman's situation and in other cases the longitudinal cumulative risks impact health across generations. Infant mortality decreased overall, and for both Caucasian and African American infants during the first 3 years of the project.
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- S D Lane
- Onondaga County Health Department, Syracuse, New York, USA
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Raghavachari S, Kahana MJ, Rizzuto DS, Caplan JB, Kirschen MP, Bourgeois B, Madsen JR, Lisman JE. Gating of human theta oscillations by a working memory task. J Neurosci 2001; 21:3175-83. [PMID: 11312302 PMCID: PMC6762557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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Electrode grids on the cortical surface of epileptic patients provide a unique opportunity to observe brain activity with high temporal-spatial resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio during a cognitive task. Previous work showed that large-amplitude theta frequency oscillations occurred intermittently during a maze navigation task, but it was unclear whether theta related to the spatial or working memory components of the task. To determine whether theta occurs during a nonspatial task, we made recordings while subjects performed the Sternberg working memory task. Our results show event-related theta and reveal a new phenomenon, the cognitive "gating" of a brain oscillation: at many cortical sites, the amplitude of theta oscillations increased dramatically at the start of the trial, continued through all phases of the trial, including the delay period, and decreased sharply at the end. Gating could be seen in individual trials and varying the duration of the trial systematically varied the period of gating. These results suggest that theta oscillations could have an important role in organizing multi-item working memory.
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- S Raghavachari
- Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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The treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome has been improved for some patients by the introduction of adjunctive therapy with newer anticonvulsants such as lamotrigine and topiramate and the availability of vagal nerve stimulation and the re-emergence of the use of the ketogenic diet in recent years. The place of standard anticonvulsants and the role of callosotomy needs to be re-evaluated in view of the new developments. Although recommendations for the treatment of patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome are difficult to make in the absence of direct head-on comparative trials, the following suggested treatment recommendations are based on the best evidence available. Medical treatment should start with valproic acid (sodium valproate) and be followed by adjunctive therapy with either lamotrigine or topiramate; clobazam can be added if necessary for better seizure control while trying to reduce the dose of the other anticonvulsants. If standard treatment does not achieve sufficient seizure control or proves to be intolerable, vagal nerve stimulation, ketogenic diet, felbamate, benzodiazepines such as clonazepam, and phenobarbital (phenobarbitone) are recommended as third-line choices. Further considerations include ethosuximide, methsuximide, corticotropin (adrenocorticotropic hormone) or corticosteroids, pyridoxine (vitamin B6) and vigabatrin. If adequate drug treatment and vagal nerve stimulation provide insufficient seizure control, partial callosotomy may be an option for the treatment of frequent, intractable and disabling drop attacks. These suggestions are based on the best evidence available and do not in any way exclude the use of other treatments if compelling individual risk-benefit considerations apply.
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- D Schmidt
- Epilepsy Research Group, Berlin, Germany.
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Wad N, Bourgeois B, Krämer G. Serum protein binding of desmethyl-methsuximide. Clin Neuropharmacol 1999; 22:239-40. [PMID: 10442255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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Serum protein binding of desmethyl-methsuximide (DM-MSM) in serum from 23 patients on polytherapy were determined using ultrafiltration and high-performance liquid chromatography. Desmethyl-methsuximide, The active metabolite of methsuximide (MSM), was found to have a moderate protein binding ranging between 45% and 60%.
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- N Wad
- Swiss Epilepsy Centre, Zurich, Switzerland
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We studied nine cases of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) by MRI, with surface-rendered 3D reconstructions. One case was also examined using single-voxel proton MR spectroscopy (MRS). The histological features were reviewed and correlated with the MRI findings. The gyri affected by FCD were enlarged and the signal of the cortex was slightly increased on T1-weighted images. The gray-white junction was indistinct. Signal from the subcortical white matter was decreased on T1- and increased on T2-weighted images in most cases. Contrast enhancement was seen in two cases. Proton MRS showed a spectrum identical to that of normal brain.
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- B C Lee
- Department of Radiology, St. Louis Children's Hospital, MO 63110, USA.
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There is an intricate reciprocal relationship between epilepsy and sleep. The seizure threshold is often affected by changes in the level of arousal; certain seizure types occur predominantly or almost exclusively during sleep or upon awakening; many epileptiform electroencephalogram abnormalities are activated by sleep or sleep deprivation. Inversely, certain epilepsies are often associated with sleep disturbances, and epilepsy can affect sleep patterns and sleep architecture. Also, it may be difficult to differentiate certain nocturnal nonepileptic events from epileptic seizures occurring during sleep. Finally, antiepileptic drugs used in the treatment of sleep-related epilepsies can have an effect on sleep. The following is an analysis and review of these complex interactions between epilepsy and sleep.
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- B Bourgeois
- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Bourgeois B. [Sodium valproate and cognitive function]. Praxis (Bern 1994) 1994; 83:1122-1125. [PMID: 7939083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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In patients with epilepsy, cognitive functions can be affected by several factors individually or in combination. These complex interactions between various factors have been responsible for considerable methodological problems in the assessment of the effect of individual antiepileptic drugs on cognitive functions. A discussion on the effect of sodium valproate on cognitive functions should consider three aspects: whether valproate affects cognitive functions, how possible cognitive effects of valproate compare with those of other antiepileptic drugs, and finally whether valproate has a positive psychotropic effect. A suspected specific psychotropic effect of valproate could not be confirmed. The majorities of the studies in which the cognitive effects of valproate were assessed are comparative studies with other antiepileptic drugs in treated patients; however, some studies were based on the introduction or the discontinuation of valproate monotherapy or on a comparison between a high dose and a low dose. Like other antiepileptic drugs, sodium valproate can affect cognitive functions and behavior. When valproate has been compared with other antiepileptic drugs, the results have been either equal or in favor of valproate; however, overall these cognitive and behavioral effects are rather mild also for the other antiepileptic drugs and have been slightly overrated in the past.
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- B Bourgeois
- Department of Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Adusumalli VE, Wichmann JK, Kucharczyk N, Kamin M, Sofia RD, French J, Sperling M, Bourgeois B, Devinsky O, Dreifuss FE. Drug concentrations in human brain tissue samples from epileptic patients treated with felbamate. Drug Metab Dispos 1994; 22:168-70. [PMID: 8149879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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- V E Adusumalli
- Wallace Laboratories, Division of Carter-Wallace, Inc., Cranbury, NJ 08512
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de Korvin A, Bourgeois B, Kleyle R. Extracting Fuzzy Rules Under Uncertainty and Measuring Definability Using Rough Sets. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 1994. [DOI: 10.3233/ifs-1994-2106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- A. de Korvin
- Department of Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Houston–Downtown, Houston, Texas 77002
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-4793
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46205
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To explore the electroclinical features of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in early childhood, we studied results of video-EEG and other tests of 14 children aged 16 months to 12 years selected by seizure-free outcome after temporal lobectomy. Four children had mesiotemporal sclerosis, 1 had cortical dysplasia, and 9 had low-grade temporal neoplasms. The children had complex partial seizures (CPS) with symptomatology similar to that of adults with TLE, including decreased responsiveness and automatisms. Automatisms tended to be simpler in the younger children, typically limited to lip smacking and fumbling hand gestures. Scalp/sphenoidal EEG showed anterior/inferior temporal interictal sharp waves and unilateral temporal seizure onset in the 4 children with mesiotemporal sclerosis and in the child with cortical dysplasia, but EEG findings in 9 children with low-grade temporal tumors were complex, including multifocal interictal sharp waves or poorly localized or falsely lateralized EEG seizure onset. In children without tumors, video-EEG was critical to localization of the epileptogenic zone for resection, but in patients with tumors video-EEG was less localizing and its main value was to confirm that the reported behaviors were epileptic seizures with semiology typical of temporal lobe onset.
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- E Wyllie
- Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195-5221
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Bourgeois B, Leppik IE, Sackellares JC, Laxer K, Lesser R, Messenheimer JA, Kramer LD, Kamin M, Rosenberg A. Felbamate: a double-blind controlled trial in patients undergoing presurgical evaluation of partial seizures. Neurology 1993; 43:693-6. [PMID: 8469324 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.43.4.693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We studied the efficacy and safety of felbamate, an investigational antiepileptic drug, in a unique, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Sixty-four patients with refractory partial-onset seizures who completed a routine evaluation for epilepsy surgery met seizure frequency entry criteria. Each patient received felbamate or placebo in addition to the anticonvulsant regimen present at the conclusion of the presurgical evaluation. The treatment phase consisted of an 8-day inpatient period and a 21-day outpatient period. The efficacy variable was time to fourth seizure. The difference in time to fourth seizure was statistically significant (p = 0.028) in favor of felbamate. Eighty-eight percent of the patients in the placebo group had a fourth seizure during the treatment phase compared with 46% of the patients in the felbamate group (p = 0.001). Adverse experiences with felbamate were generally mild or moderate in severity. This trial demonstrated the ability of felbamate to quickly and safely reduce the occurrence of frequent partial-onset seizures and maintain effective seizure control following reductions in the dosages of standard antiepileptic drugs.
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Hootkins R, Bourgeois B. The effect of ultrafiltration on dialysance. Mathematical theory and experimental verification. ASAIO Trans 1991; 37:M375-7. [PMID: 1751195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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It is known that convective transport (ultrafiltration, QF) augments diffusive transport. This augmentation achieves great importance as solute molecular weight increases. Previous mathematical treatments of dialysance (D) have provided the relationship between D and blood flow rate (QB), dialysate flow rate (QD), and dialyzer membrane surface area permeability product (KoA), in the limit of QF = 0. The authors derived the relationship between D (defined as D') and QB, QD, and KoA for the general case of QF greater than or equal to 0: D' = X-Y/In X/Y . [(1-ó) QF + KoA] for X = X(D', QF, QD) = 1 - [D'/QD + QF] Y = Y(D', QF, QB) = D'-QB/QF-QB ó = the Staverman reflection coefficient. This equation demonstrates an approximate linear increase in D' as QF increases. Experimental verification is provided by in vivo studies of dialysis patients in which the dialysance of vancomycin doubles as QF is increased from 0 to 50. Because D' varies linearly with QF, this allows for the determination of KoA and ó. Using the Cobe 500HG Hemophan membrane, KoA for vancomycin was determined to be 6.54 and ó = 0.88.
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- R Hootkins
- Nephrology/Metabolism Division, Baylor University Medical Center, Houston, Texas 75246
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Schmidt D, Bourgeois B, Rothner AD. Workshop: Antiepileptic drug therapy: monotherapy vs polypharmacy. Cleve Clin J Med 1989. [DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.56.s1.150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Surgery of epilepsy is as successful in children as in adults. With very few modifications, similar evaluation methods and surgical techniques can be used. However, in the selection of the surgical candidates special considerations are necessary in children to establish the stability of the epileptogenic focus (to exclude the possibility of a change with maturation) and to define the clinical syndrome which very frequently is still poorly defined in that age group. The expectation that surgery of epilepsy at an early age will facilitate rehabilitation efforts has still not been confirmed by systematic scientific studies. Surgery of epilepsy has not been attempted in a sufficient number of children under 5 yrs of age to establish its value in that age group.
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- H Lüders
- Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195-5221
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Martelin R, Bourgeois B, Mottuel MF, Meunier P. [A case of fetal cystic hygroma. Clinical and echographic study]. Rev Fr Gynecol Obstet 1988; 83:123-5. [PMID: 3283912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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In reference to a case of fetal cystic hygroma discovered on ultrasonogram, after 16 weeks of amenorrhea, the authors remind of the need for a karyotype; this is absolutely necessary in the therapeutic decision. Most of the time, it is related to a Turner's syndrome. In case of abnormal karyotype, a therapeutic interruption of pregnancy may be proposed. If the karyotype is normal, the ultrasonogram should be rechecked since hygroma regression has been described. If these images persist or become worse, it is related, most often, to a Noonan's syndrome and interruption of pregnancy may also be indicated.
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- R Martelin
- Service de Gynécologie-obstétrique, Centre hospitalier, Romans-sur-Isère
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Bourgeois B, Beaumanoir A, Blajev B, de la Cruz N, Despland PA, Egli M, Geudelin B, Kaspar U, Ketz E, Kronauer C. Monotherapy with valproate in primary generalized epilepsies. Epilepsia 1987; 28 Suppl 2:S8-11. [PMID: 3121293 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1987.tb05769.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Sodium valproate enteric-coated tablets were administered as monotherapy to 118 patients (median age, 19 years) with primary generalized epilepsies. More than half (56%) of these patients were transferred from prior drug therapy, most of them because of inadequate seizure control, and some because of adverse effects. Seventy-one percent of the patients experienced tonic-clonic seizures, either alone or in combination with other types of seizures, principally absences. Mean duration of follow-up was 18 months (median, 17 months; range, 1-68 months). At a mean daily dosage of less than 20 mg/kg, 83% of the patients became seizure-free. Therapy was equally effective against tonic-clonic seizures, absences, and myoclonic seizures. Tonic-clonic seizures were suppressed in 85% of cases (89% when patient had only one seizure type), absences in 82% (95% when patient had only one seizure type), and myoclonic seizures in 82%. Paroxysmal activity was present in 88% of the electroencephalogram (EEG) records before valproate monotherapy, and in 32.4% at the study's end. These results were achieved with generally mild and mostly transient side effects; side effects were reported by 16% of patients during the first month, and 2% at the last follow-up. No hematologic or hepatic toxicity was observed. The lag time between attaining steady-state serum concentrations and achieving maximal clinical improvement suggests that sodium valproate monotherapy should be given an adequate trial to ensure that patients derive the greatest possible benefit before adding or switching to another drug.
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Renier JC, Bregeon C, Bonnette C, Boasson M, Bernat M, Basle M, Besson J, Wellinger C, Bourgeois B, Teisseire N. [Evolution of patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with immunosuppressive agents between 1965 and 1973]. Rev Rhum Mal Osteoartic 1978; 45:453-61. [PMID: 725461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The authors report the results of a study of 139 of their patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, treated with chlorambucil of cyclophosphamide between 1965 and December 1973, with an observation period of 4 to 12 years. 8 patients were lost to follow-up, 38 died and 93 were reexamined. In this series 7 deaths were attributed to hemolymphoreticulopathy of various cytological types; 6 deaths were due to visceral cancer and 2 others to cancer of the tonsils. They confirm that such treatments increase the risk of hemopathy but apparently not the risk of visceral cancer. The risk was not a function of the total dose of the drug administered since no neoplasia was observed in the 25 subjects who received the highest doses. The addition of chlorambucil to cyclophosphamide seems to increase the risk of hemopathy. It was noticed that the 7 cases of hemolymphoreticulopathy occured after 60 years.
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In order to evaluate the importance of measuring serum lipids in the current care of diabetics, blood triglycerides were measured in 155 diabetics and 59 controls. Comparison with a chemical method confirmed the usefulness of the nephelometric method for the diagnosis and control of hyperlipemia in current practice. The importance of measuring serum lipids was confirmed by a close correlation between lipemia and cardiovascular complications such as coronary insufficiency, high blood pressure, and peripheral arterial insufficiency. It appeared also that glycemia and cholesterol are not sufficient to assess the biological pattern and prognosis of diabetes. Thus, lipemia is an essential parameter in the evaluation of any diabetic because of its value regarding prognosis and control therapy.
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This report of transient priapism in a preterm newborn with respiratory distress syndrome discusses clinical course, therapy, possible etiologic factors, and previously reported cases in newborns. Possible causes include use of arterial catheter, red cell transfusion, hemodynamic changes from a patent ductus arteriosus, and hypoxia.
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Bourgeois B, Schmidt BJ, Bourgeois R. Some aspects of catecholamines in undernutrition. Rev Bras Pesqui Med Biol 1974; 7:561-6. [PMID: 4457969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Bourgeois B, Zahnd GR. [Clinical importance of the measurement of lipid abnormalities in diabetes]. Helv Med Acta 1972; 36:197. [PMID: 5029091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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