Biomedical subjects

E Puymirat

Publications and source records attributed to E Puymirat.

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PubMed2006

[Post-traumatic necrotizing fasciitis].

We are reporting the case of a 39-year-old male, without notable previous history except for an important alcoholic and tobacco consumption, who suffered a bicycle accident resulting in a minor wound on the left elbow. The neglected wound evolved extremely rapidly towards a necrotizing fasciitis, which underwent further complications consisting of a heat shock and multivisceral failure that necessitated reanimation procedures. The patient benefited a triple antibiotic therapy (amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ornidazole and levofloxacin) and an extensive surgical debridement. The progression was then slow but favourable. The patient is now in functional reeducation. This observation illustrates the rate of evolution of the lesions caused by necrotizing fasciitis and reminds on the importance of prompt therapy.

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PubMed1995

[Localized muscular hypertrophy in a familial form of sarcoidosis].

Muscular hypertrophy, rarely reported in muscular sarcoidosis, is usually associated with the myositic, myopathic and nodular types. We report a case with an isolated localised muscular hypertrophy simulating a tumor formation developed after repetitive efforts, in a familial context of sarcoidosis. MRI shows muscular high intensity lesions in the thighs and calves, and after treatment, central areas of low intensity signal. Muscular biopsy confirms diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Gallium-67 scintigraphy shows systemic extension of disease. This case highlights the usefulness of recent imaging techniques in diagnostic strategy and follow up.

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PubMed1989

A strategy for analysing multiple risk factors with application to cervical pain syndrome.

When studying the possible effects of several factors in a given disease, two major problems arise: (1) confounding, and (2) multiplicity of tests. Frequently, in order to cope with the problem of confounding factors, models with multiple explanatory variables are used. However, the correlation structure of the variables may be such that the corresponding tests have low power: in its extreme form this situation is coined by the term "multicollinearity". As the problem of multiplicity is still relevant in these models, the interpretation of results is, in most cases, very hazardous. We propose a strategy--based on a tree structure of the variables--which provides a guide to the interpretation and controls the risk of erroneously rejecting null hypotheses. The strategy was applied to a study of cervical pain syndrome involving 990 subjects and 17 variables. Age, sex, head trauma, posture at work and psychological status were all found to be important risk factors.

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PubMed1988

Prevalence and risk factors of recurrent cervical pain syndrome in a working population.

The prevalence and risk factors of recurrent cervical pain syndrome (CPS) was studied in 990 workers examined while undergoing their systematic annual visit of occupational medicine. A prevalence rate of 10.2% was obtained. Using a tree-structured logistic regression analysis, a strong association between age, sex, previous head trauma extension of the neck and strenuous muscular activity during work, and the risk of recurrent CPS was obtained. Finally, an inverse association between strenuous muscular activity during leisure time and the risk of recurrent CPS was found.

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