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H Rousset

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[Early and unusual presentation of temporal arteritis. A report of 7 cases (author's transl)].

The authors report 7 cases of temporal arteritis, proved by biopsy, with unusual early symptoms. They emphasize dental extraction as a possible incitant of the disease. Diagnosis is very often overlooked when local symptoms of involvment of temporal arteries are lacking. Various head and neck pain, fever of unexplained origin, weight loss, when associated with erythrocyte sedimentation rate greater than 50 mm, should convince the physician to biopsy the temporal artery of people over the age of 60. Steroid therapy must begin as soon as diagnosis is made.

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[Fever caused by fipexide. Evaluation of the national pharmacovigilance survey].

Fourteen cases of drug fever due to fipexide were reported by a retrospective survey of a National Network of French Pharmacovigilance. 8 women, 6 men (mean age, 52 years), presented a sudden fever with a mean onset delay of 7 days after the first cure (range 2-12 days). In five cases, drug fever was the only manifestation; in other cases, it was associated with systemic or cutaneous signs. Eosinophilia was frequent (8 cases) and once, a chest picture showed an interstitial pneumonitis. Fever disappeared promptly after discontinuation of the drug and for ten patients, the rechallenge was positive within a short time. The clinical picture and laboratory tests are discussed and suggest an hypersensitivity reaction.

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[Disorders of noradrenergic pathways in anorexia nervosa. Results].

Twelve patients suffering from mental anorexia were examined on clinical and biological grounds, based on the hypothesis of the functional depression of the noradrenergic track. The initial values of MHPG and of catecholamines were below normal. The quantitative results for depression and retardation were lessened significantly under beta-stimulant treatment. Only glucuro-conjugate MHPG excretion increased significantly, but the MHPG values were much lower than normal at the end of the treatment. The correlations between biochemical and behavioural parameters were worth noticing as far as the retardation scale was concerned. The present study shows the advantage of the dexamethasone suppression test and of the response of TSH under TRH.

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[Screening for depression in patients with medical hospitalization. Comparison of two self-evaluation scales and clinical assessment with a structured questionnaire].

The aim of this study was to determine, in a population of medical inpatients, the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of two self-rating depression scales, and of the physicians' judgment, compared to a structured interview derived from the Composite Interview Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) designed to assess the diagnosis of major depressive episodes. The setting of the study was a general internal medicine inpatient ward of a French university hospital. Patients between 15 and 75 were asked to fill, within the first week of their hospitalization, two self-rating depression scales: the Beck Depression Inventory - short form (BDI-short form), a 13-item scale with established reliability and validity; and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D), a 20-item scale designed for epidemiological use in the general population, recently translated in French. Patients were then interviewed by a psychologist, blind to the results of the self-rating scales, using a slightly simplified version of the depression section of the CIDI. The ward physicians' recognition of depression was assessed six months later by a careful chart review, conducted by an investigator blind to the results of depression scales and structured interview. One hundred consecutive patients were studied: 63% were women, mean age was 53.6 +/- 16.5 years. According to the results of the CIDI, the prevalence of current major depression was 29.7%, and the lifetime prevalence of major depression was 59.8%. The correlation between BDI-short form and CES-D was +0.81. BDI-short form proved to have a slightly better acceptability than the CES-D.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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