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The lockdown provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a reorganisation of the provision of care. Sirolimus The staff of the child psychiatry unit in Coulommiers has had to redesign the care provision in the light ofthe current constraints and requirements. New tools and methods have appeared, along with a new symptomatology which has had to be understood in its context. The health crisis has also affected the patients. Some have disappeared from view while others show signs of anxiety and panic attacks. Caregivers have managed to adapt in order to guarantee the necessary continuity of care.The health crisis has radically changed psychiatric units. In order to react, a crisis unit was established, comprising the director, management team and medical staff. Its aim was to apply the necessary adaptation measures with regard to staff organisation and management. However, these measures have had a specifc and significant impact on patients' freedom to come and go, which must be medically justified. This crisis has highlighted more than ever the importance of coordination across the territory.The COVID-19 health crisis forced Charles-Perrens General Hospital in Bordeaux to convert a conventional psychiatric unit into a specific unit to care for patients with mental disorders who are potentially infected with the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Resources and competences from across the hospital were mobilised to enable the unit's health professionals to accomplish this mission. This article looks back at the experience.The psychopathological effects of the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic are mainly related to the preventive measures imposing a lockdown on the general population anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, depression, addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder, symptoms of psychosis, etc. More specific categories of the population have been particularly exposed to the harmful psychological impact of this epidemic caregivers, patients receiving mental health care, patients hospitalised for COVID-19 and their families. These psychopathological effects can be observed in France, and also abroad, notably in Spain.The International Study of Comparative Health Effectiveness with Medical and Invasive Approaches (ISCHEMIA) study was published recently demonstrating that over a period of 3.3 years a routine invasive approach along with optimised medical therapy (OMT) was not superior to OMT alone in patients with stable coronary artery disease and at least moderate to severe ischemia. Considerable interest and discussion have emerged over the applicability of the trial to real-world settings and the limitations of the trial. Given the fact that no clinical trial will ever be designed that will be perfect, it is important to prise out the pearls that the findings reveal and not interpret the findings as either positive or negative towards one approach or the other.
There is need to identify novel markers that lead to an early occurrence of myocardial infarction (MI) in young South Asian population. This population has different risk profile as compared with others. Telomere length is known to be a marker of aging, and shorter telomeres have been reported in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). We aimed to identify the association of telomere length in young nonsmokers and non-diabetic MI patients.
In a case-control study of 154 subjects (n=77 cases (ages 18-45 years, non-diabetic, non-smoker patients with MI) and n=77, age and sex matched healthy controls), DNA extraction from peripheral blood leukocytes was carried out and the relative telomere length was estimated by quantitative PCR. The results were adjusted with various demographic parameters like age, gender and body mass index (BMI). The correlation studies were carried out between telomere length, sex and type of MI.
The relative telomere length was significantly shorter in young MI patients (31-45 years) compared with matched healthy controls (p<0.0001). Interestingly, in a gender-based comparison, the female patients had shorter telomere length (p<0.01).
In this pilot study, we found that the telomere length was shorter among young, non-diabetic, non-smoker MI patients as compared with similar young controls without MI in a South Asian cohort. Thus, telomere length may be a potential screening tool for young patients who don't have conventional risk factors. Larger studies are needed to confirm these findings.
In this pilot study, we found that the telomere length was shorter among young, non-diabetic, non-smoker MI patients as compared with similar young controls without MI in a South Asian cohort. Thus, telomere length may be a potential screening tool for young patients who don't have conventional risk factors. Larger studies are needed to confirm these findings.Seventy-five patients with isolated severe MS (mitral valve area 1.10 ± 0.15 cm2) and pulmonary hypertension underwent regional and global longitudinal strain (GLS) measurements of left (LV) and right ventricle (RV) at baseline and within 48 h after percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty (PBMV). PBMV resulted in significant improvement in LV GLS (-16.35 ± 1.67% vs -19.98 ± 2.17%) and RV GLS (-10.34 ± 2.38% vs -13.83 ± 2.04%), p less then 0.001 for both. Absolute increase in strain of basal segments of LV was more compared to mid and apical segments. We also found significant positive correlation between decrease in mean LA pressure (pre PBMV 28.91 ± 4.21 mm Hg vs post PBMV 10.55 ± 3.04 mm Hg, difference of 16.36 mm Hg; p less then 0.001) obtained invasively during PBMV for 62 patients with improvement in LV GLS (r = 0.257, p = 0.048), RV GLS (r = 0.267, p = 0.043), and fall in right ventricular systolic pressure (r = 0.308, p = 0.022) that occurred post PBMV. The LV dysfunction is predominantly because of altered hemodynamics due to restricted LV filling with additional contribution from rheumatic involvement of basal LV myocardial segments. The improvement in LV deformation after PBMV is likely due to increase in preload. RV afterload reduction because of LA pressure decrease improved RV deformation.
