Laure Boutsen, Ivan Borbath, Anne Jouret-Mourin, Aline Van Maanen et Birgit WeynandPublished in the journal : June 2017Category : Mémoires de Recherche Clinique
In the WHO 2010 classification, resection specimens of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are graded using the Ki67-labeling index (Ki67-LI) (G1 : Ki67-LI < 2% ; G2 : 3-20%, G3 : > 20%).
Cédric Trefois, Daniel Léonard, Audrey Hartman, Christophe Remue, Radu Bachmann, Nora Abbes Orabi, Fernande Lois, Patrice Forget, Alex KartheuserPublished in the journal : June 2017Category : Mémoires de Recherche Clinique
Fast Track (FT) is a multimodal perioperative approach which aims to optimize physiologic response to the surgical stress and consequently improve postoperative outcome.
Quentin Binet, Christophe de Meester, Geoffrey Colin, David Vancraeynest, Laurent de Kerchove, Anne-Catherine Pouleur, Agnès Pasquet, Bernhard L. Gerber, Gébrine El Khoury, Jean-Louis VanoverscheldePublished in the journal : June 2017Category : Mémoires de Recherche Clinique
There are two types of surgical cure for an ascending aorta dilatation.
This June issue perpetuates Clinical Research Abstracts or MRCs. For many students, the clinical research paper represents an important step in the completion of medical studies and the result of an original and lengthy research.
Caroline Peeters, Alison Coster, Marie Baeck, Dominique Tennstedt, Anne HermanPublished in the journal : June 2017Category : Dermatology
We report the contents of the « PEAU’se dermatologique » meeting of the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc of the 21th of November 2016 concerning the topographic dermatosis. Professor D. Tennstedt, consultant at the department of Dermatology at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, presented cases of cheilitis and detailed the contact dermatitis of the lips. Doctors Caroline Peeters and Alison Coster, intern residents of the same department, displayed a set of specific pathologies concerning the ears and the nose, respectively.
Key Words
Contact dermatitis of the lips ; auricular dermatosis ; nasal dermatosis
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus transmitted by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, and whose transplacental transmission is responsible for severe neurologic damage in the fetus and newborn. The current brazilian epidemic already concerns 1.3 billion persons and has already spread to more than 50 countries, making it essential to better understand this virus, in order to establish preventive measures, to guide the care of pregnant women exposed to the ZIKV and to ensure an adequate follow-up of their infected children.
HIV/AIDS has been transformed into a manageable, chronic condition and the life expectancy of patients living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now comparable to those without the disease. This is mainly due to the emergence of combination antiretroviral (cARV) therapy. This situation poses many new problems and challenges: persistent inflammation leading to immune activation, multi-morbidities, accumulation of toxicity of antiretroviral treatments, ageing and, finally, overloading of health systems especially in low resource countries. In this article we discuss many of these challenges.
Quentin Binet, Catherine Lambert, Laurine Sacre, Stéphane Eeckhoudt, Cédric HermansPublished in the journal : June 2017Category : Hématologie et Dermatologie
The differential diagnosis of isolated prolongation of the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) is vast. An infrequent but severe cause is acquired hemophilia A (AHA) which is due to the spontaneous formation of neutralizing antibodies against endogenous factor VIII. About half the cases are associated with pregnancy, post-partum, auto-immune diseases, malignancies, or adverse drug reactions. Symptoms include severe and unexpected bleeding that may prove life-threatening. We report a case of AHA associated with bullous pemphigoid (BP), a chronic, autoimmune, subepidermal, blistering skin disease. AHA was completely cured and BP well-controlled with a short-term treatment consisting of methylprednisolone and rituximab.
Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HF) affects more than 25,000 Belgians and leads, due to its severely elevated levels of LDL cholesterol since birth, to premature risk of cardiovascular disease. Currently, diagnostic tools, effective treatments and preferential reimbursement give the Belgian doctors the opportunity to achieve the early diagnosis and the intense treatment necessary to stop the dramatic prognosis of this disease.