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Cervical degenerative disease is an almost universal concomitant of human aging. Over half of the middle aged population has cervical spondylosis. This condition is often asymptomatic, but in 10% to 15% of the cases, it is associated with, or progresses to, neural compression. Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy is a condition due to a root nerve compression while cervical spondylotic myelopathy is a condition due to a medullar cord compression. Root nerve or medullar cord can be compressed either by a soft disc extrusion or by arthrosis due to a degenerative disc. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion is the standard surgical treatment of the cervical radiculopathy or cervical myelopathy when non-surgical treatment failed. The aim of this surgery is to provide a neurologic decompression associated to spine stabilization. Decompression is achieved by removal the disc and soft disc extrusion if present. Stabilization is supported by implantation of material in the interbody space like bone or cage with bone substitute. This cage provides a bone fusion matrix and an intervertebral height and stability support at the same time. To enforce the stabilization, a plate can be screwed on the anterior cervical vertebral wall. The HRCC® cage is a stand-alone cage with two rotary blades which penetrate into vertebral bone so there is no need to implant plate. One of the reasons why treatment can fail is the pseudarthrosis that is fusion failure. It mays occur as an increase of axial pain or radicular pain. The aim of this study is to demonstrate similar results on bone fusion in the surgical treatment of cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy with HRCC cage used in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion compared with other technics based on a prospective cohort study and a literature review. As secondary outcomes we will search to correlate pseudarthrosis and quality of life impact, to identify complications and to describe the sagittal balance evolution of the cervical spine. To this end, in the context of standard practices, patients who consult the neurosurgical team of the REIMS University Hospital Center with a diagnosis of a cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy with non-surgical treatment failure needing a one level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion will be proposed to be included during this pre-operative consultation. There will be pre-operative collected data about demographic data, pseudarthrosis risk factors, pre-operative symptomatology, quality of life data and pre-operative imagery data. Per-operative and hospitalization data are collected as well with surgery duration, blood lost, surgical technic, pain measurement and hospitalization duration. Next, follow-up starts with consultations at 6 weeks, 6 months and 12 months and pain, quality of life and classic X-Ray data are collected to be compared with pre-operative data. And Imagery data are collected in order to identify presence or absence of pseudarthrosis with dynamic X-Ray and CT-scan at 6 months and 12 months. A statistical analysis of the data is next performed to found significant results.

In this study, cardiopulmonary exercise will be assessed to characterize the relevance of severity of COPD and coexisting cardiovascular comorbidities for exercise capacity.

to study the frequency and pattern of dermatological abnormalities in egyptian childern with beta thalassemia.relationof abnormalities to duration of disease and frequency of transfusion

Prospective clinical study on the performance of an Influenza A+B rapid test kit. The main goal is to establish the sensitivity and specificity (i.e. how accurate the test is) when compared to a gold standard. Option of participating in this clinical study will be presented to patients displaying influenza-like illness. Informed consent will be collected from patients or patient's next of kin/guardian before samples (nasopharyngeal swab) are taken from the patient. Nasopharyngeal swabs are tested using both the investigational test kit and a predicate fluorescence immunoassay test kit. All samples will be tested using a molecular-based PCR test kit as a confirmatory test. The results will be analysed statistically and the performance of the Influenza A+B test kit can be evaluated.

Firefighters have been shown to be at increased risk for various types of cancer, including prostate cancer. This study will try to explore possible reasons for this increase in risk. A study group at the Cancer Registry of Norway is creating a cohort of Norwegian firemen employed from 1960 onwards. A job exposure matrix (JEM) is also being constructed, examining different types of exposure to potentially cancer-inducing agents and activities, and how these have changed historically. Examples include exposure to fire-smoke, shiftwork, diesel exhaust and regular health check-ups. By linking the cohort with data from the Cancer Registry of Norway and the JEM the investigators can examine which exposure assessments, if any, are related to an increased risk of prostate cancer.

In 2014, the "States General of Kidney" have allowed to assess the situation concerning the management of chronic kidney disease on the national territory. Ex-Languedoc-Roussillon has emerged as one of the French regions with a high dialysis / transplant ratio compared to other regions. Disparities in accessibility to the kidney transplant list were also very important. In the ex-Languedoc-Roussillon Region, the number of patients on the renal transplant list was lower than the national average (18.9 vs. 24.1%, respectively, according to the REIN 2015 report). In 2015, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) ex-Languedoc-Roussillon, has published proposals to improve the healthcare of the patient in chronic end stage renal failure, and accessibility to the national waiting list for renal transplantation (CRISTAL). To increase accessibility to the national waiting list for renal transplantation by improving the patient's healthcare, our project is based on the creation of a reinforced exchanges connexion between the hospital's nephrology services professionals, dialysis units and liberal nephrologists. This will include having regular meetings between dialysis nephrologists and CHU nephrologists. The proposals for this project were: to organize multidisciplinary consultation meetings between transplant and dialysis professionals to set up an exchange platform and communication tools built on the model of telemedicine (COVOTEM), common to the nephrology departments of the University Hospital Center, dialysis units. This new device for the management of chronic end stage renal failure should increase the number of patients on the national renal transplantation waiting list. It should also make it possible to reduce the time between: firstly, the sending of the pre-registration file to the transplantation at Montpellier University Hospital and registration, and secondly between dialysis and registration.on waiting list. The investigators hope that this experiment will increase the number of registrations on the National Kidney Transplantation Waitlist (CRISTAL). The implementation of this innovative tool should facilitate communication between nephrologists dialysis centers and nephrologists of CHU Montpellier, and accelerate the process of registration on the National Kidney Transplantation Waitlist. If this platform proves to be easy to use and if the project's evaluation criteria show significant results, the platform could then be used to monitor patients in post-transplantation. Indeed, the data of patients who perform an alternating follow-up would be available for the referring nephrologists and for the transplant center. The further development of the platform would allow to create a mode of communication via this platform.

Pre-clinical studies suggest that the third generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor ponatinib can result in microvascular angiopathy and acceleration of atherosclerosis. This study is intended to examine for myocardial microvascular angiopathy and changes in carotid plaque in patients receiving ponatinib as part of their clinical care.

Palliative care has received considerable attention in Taiwan in recent years. The relevant research has been widely conducted for palliative care in adult population. However, the research in children population is relatively insufficient. In the limited studies, most of them are the experiences generated from individual institutions. This study is going to retrieve the data from 2008-2017 National Health Insurance Research Database, Cancer Registry Database, Death Registry Database and other relevant materials in order to analyze the trends of using pediatric palliative care service, the types of services, the timing of initiating palliative care, and the preference of using palliative care service among different life span in the past decade. In addition, the study will examine the differences of the timing of initiating of pediatric palliative care service and the types of diseases among different characteristics of children and healthcare providers. And the study will discuss how pediatric palliative care services affect medical costs.

This study intends to establish an automatic system for screening on children with congenital heart disease, the system include the auscultation of cardiac murmur and the test of oxygen saturation, the data was analyzed based on the cloud computing.

The goal of the proposed project is to collect data from clinician files and the electronic medical record to describe the clinical implementation of Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), an individual psychotherapy for depression and anxiety, at the VA through psychology staff and trainees between 2012-present.