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B Duclos

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[Efficacy of endoscopic pneumatic dilatation in achalasia. Medium-term results].

During a seven-year period, thirty patients with achalasia of the esophagus were treated by pneumatic dilatation without complications. Only twenty patients could be followed with a mean follow of 32 +/- 23 months after their initial dilatation. Excellent to good results were obtained in more than 75 p. cent of the group. Most patients have not required a further dilatation. This study suggest to propose a regular supervision of these patients by clinical examination, esophageal manometry and endoscopy.

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[Esophagogastroduodenal localizations of Crohn's disease are frequent].

The purpose of this study was to determine the endoscopic features, actual frequency and consequences of upper digestive involvement in Crohn's disease (CD). Between April 1973 and April 1985, one or several upper digestive tract endoscopies with biopsies were performed in 129 of 195 patients admitted for ileal and/or colorectal CD. Endoscopic lesions were small and superficial: aphtous and superficial ulcerations, or erythematous areas. The diagnosis of upper digestive involvement was probable in 36 of the 129 patients who underwent upper endoscopies (28 p. 100), certain (microscopic evidence of granuloma) in 21 patients (16 p. 100). Lesions were isolated or multifocal but their preferential sites were the antrum and proximal duodenum. Histologic study of biopsies showed that granuloma were as frequent in upper as in lower intestinal lesions of CD. A frequency of 20 p. 100 seems to us to be more correct than the 5 p. 100 usually admitted. In our experience, upper digestive involvement in CD could not be regarded as a pejorative prognostic factor. It was sometimes possible to identify colitis or a peptic ulcer disease as a lower or upper digestive manifestation of CD, respectively.

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[Comparative study of results of hepatic transplantation between 2 groups of patients: alcoholic cirrhosis versus non-alcoholic cirrhosis].

Among the patients treated for alcoholic cirrhosis, only a small group could be candidates for liver transplantation (LT). The aim of this multicentric study was to analyse the results of LT in a group of 75 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis (AC) compared with a group of 61 patients with non-alcoholic cirrhosis (NAC). Results were similar in both groups concerning survival rate and quality of life. However the ability to go back to a normal professional life was less in the AC group. The reported recurrence of alcoholic intoxication, which was around 26%, was much lower for patients who interrupted alcohol consumption during at least 3 months before L.T.

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[Epiphysis-metaphysis bone ischemia in hemorrhagic rectocolitis and Crohn's disease].

Aseptic osteonecrosis is a rare extraintestinal manifestation in patients with inflammatory bowel disease; its true prevalence is not precisely known. Steroid treatment undoubtedly participates in the pathophysiology of avascular osteonecrosis, however, other factors like hypercoagulability may be involved. Two cases of bilateral osteonecrosis of the knees--the first occurring during the course of ulcerative colitis, the second in a patient presenting with Crohn's disease--are described. Specific location of the lesions and regression of symptoms, as well as the importance of magnetic resonance imaging for early recognition of osteonecrosis, are noteworthy.

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