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Argonne National Laboratory Reports
This report presents two detailed computerized operating procedures developed to assist and control the shearing and dissolution of irradiated fuel rods. The procedures were employed in the destructive analysis of end-of-life fuel rods from the Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR) that was designed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Seventeen entire fuel rods from the end-of-life core of the LWBR were sheared into 169 precisely characterized segments, and more than 150 of these segments were dissolved during execution of the LWBR Proof-of-Breeding (LWBR-POB) Analytical Support Project at Argonne National Laboratory. The procedures illustrate our approaches to process monitoring, data reduction, and quality assurance during the LWBR-POB work
Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO: Why, When and How?
This paper analyses to which extent domestic institutions affect trade flows. We use two complementary approaches, one focusing on the size of total trade flows and one focusing on bilateral trade patterns (gravity equation). Besides, we control for two other domestic policy variables: trade policy and domestic infrastructure. We find that the quality of institutions has a positive and significant impact on a country's level of openness. Domestic tariffs have no statistically significant impact on their own, but do affect total trade flows when combined with good institutions. Domestic institutions also have a positive and significant impact on bilateral trade flows, but the parameter of our institution variables is reduced by almost a half and may turn insignificant when the quality of domestic infrastructure is included in the regression
Connected Health in Europe: Where are we today?
This report, which has grown out of an ENJECT survey of 19 European countries, examines the situation of Connected Health in Europe today. It focuses on creating a clear understanding of the current and developing presence of Connected Health throughout European healthcare systems under five headings: The Policy Environment, Education, Business and Health Models, Interoperability, and The Perso
Ingestion de produits caustiques étiologiques et sténoses oesophagiennes (à propos de 118 cas)
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J. Rech. Sci. Univ. Lomé (Togo) 2002, 6(2) : 187-18
Manifestations orl au cours de l'infection au VIH-SIDA au Chu de Lome: A propos de 121 cas
The ENT symptoms found during HIV infection are diverse and can constitute the motive for consultation. We therefore deemed it necessary to conduct this study in order to see how these symptoms appear in our country. This is a retrospective study conducted over a period of ten years and focussed on the files of patients consulted at the ENT Unit of the CHU Tokoin from 1991 to 1994 and that of the CHU Campus from 1995 to 2000. At the end of this study, 45 HIV positive patients were received out of the 23785 patients 0.19% at the CHU Tokoin and 65 out of the 8385 patients 0.77% at the CHU Campus. At the CHU Tokoin we noticed 26 men of an average age of 32.73 years and 19 women of an average age of 32.05 years. The sex-ratio was 1.37. At the CHU Campus we noticed 33 men of an average age of 37.42 years and 32 women of an average age of 29.37 years. The sex-ratio was 1.03. The otologic symptoms, evaluated at 46.28% are dominated by the peripheric facial paralysis 28.12% and the glue ear 6.61%, while the buccopharyngeal symptoms, 23.14% are dominated by the buccopharyngeal mycosis 9.92% and the mycotic gingivostomatitis 5.78%. The sinus symptoms, 17.36% are dominated by the pansinusitis 6.61%, while the cervical adenopathy represented 13.22%. From this study, we proposed that doctors should be highly suspicious of HIV infection in the face of peripheric facial paralysis, the glue ear with an adult, the buccopharyngeal candidosis, the pansinusitis and the cervical adenopathy without primary lesions. Doctors should therefore instinctively propose an HIV serology. Les manifestations ORL rencontrĂ©es au cours de lâinfection VIH sont diverses et peuvent constituer le motif de consultation. Il nous a paru alors nĂ©cessaire de mener la prĂ©sente Ă©tude pour voir quelles sont ces manifestations chez nous. Il sâest agi dâune Ă©tude rĂ©trospective menĂ©e sur dix ans et ayant portĂ© sur les dossiers de patients reçus en consultations dâORL de 1991 Ă 1994 au CHU Tokoin et de 1995 Ă 2000 au CHU Campus de LomĂ©. Au cours de cette pĂ©riode, 45 patients sĂ©ropositifs ont consultĂ© au CHU Tokoin sur 23785 consultants 0,19% et 65 au CHU Campus sur 8385 consultants 0,77%. Au CHU Tokoin nous avons notĂ© 26 hommes dâĂąge moyen de 32,73 ans et 19 femmes dâĂąge moyen de 32,05 ans. Sex-ratio : 1,37. Au CHU Campus nous avons notĂ© 33 hommes dâĂąge moyen de 37,42 ans et 32 femmes dâĂąge moyen de 29,37 ans. Sex-ratio : 1,03. Les manifestations otologiques Ă©valuĂ©es Ă 46,28%, sont dominĂ©es par les paralysies faciales pĂ©riphĂ©riques 28,12% et les otites sĂ©ro-muqueuses 6,61%. Parlant des manifestations bucco-pharyngo-laryngĂ©es, 23,14% sont dominĂ©es par les mycoses bucco-pharyngĂ©es 9,92% et les gingivo-stomatites mycosiques 5,78%. Par ailleurs les manifestations naso-sinusiennes sont de 17,36%, dominĂ©es par les pan-sinusites 6,61%. Les adĂ©nopathies cervicales reprĂ©sentaient 13,22%. A partir de cette Ă©tude, nous proposons aux mĂ©decins de suspecter fortement une infection VIH devant une paralysie faciale pĂ©riphĂ©rique, une otite sĂ©ro-muqueuse chez un adulte, une candidose bucco-pharyngĂ©e, une pan-sinusite et des adĂ©nopathies cervicales sans lĂ©sions primitives et avoir le rĂ©flexe de proposer une sĂ©rologie VIH
Hypertorphie des végétations adénoïdes aspects épidémiologiques, diagnostiques et thérapeutiques (étude à propos de 389 cas)
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J. Rech. Sci. Univ. Lomé (Togo) 2002, 6(2) : 199-20
Etiologies et pronostic de lâinsuffisance renale de lâenfant a lâhopital universitaire de Lome
But. DĂ©terminer lâincidence, les aspects cliniques, Ă©tiologiques et Ă©volutifs de lâinsuffisance rĂ©nale (IR) de lâenfant et les pathologies associĂ©es au centre hospitalier universitaire de LomĂ© (Togo).MĂ©thode. De janvier 2005 Ă dĂ©cembre 2007, tous les cas consĂ©cutifs dâIR admis dans les services de pĂ©diatrie du CHU de LomĂ© ont fait lâobjet dâune Ă©tude prospective Ă partir dâune fiche dâenquĂȘte prĂ©Ă©tablie. Age, sexe, diurĂšse, surface corporelle, dĂ©lai dâadmission, observation clinique, Ă©tiologies, pathologies associĂ©es, indications de dialyse, examens para cliniques, durĂ©e dâadmission et Ă©volution du malade ont Ă©tĂ© les paramĂštres Ă©tudiĂ©s.RĂ©sultats. Sur 14468 enfants admis durant la pĂ©riode dâĂ©tude, 92 (0,63%) atteints dâIR ont fait lâobjet de cette Ă©tude, soit 50 garçons et 42 filles (sex ratio:1,19) avec un Ăąge moyen de 6,30 ± 5 ans. La plupart des patients (80,44%) ont Ă©tĂ© admis au moins une semaine aprĂšs le dĂ©but de lâIR. A lâadmission, lâIR Ă©tait aiguĂ« (IRA:80,43%) ou chronique (IRC:19,57%), oligurique (45,65%), non oligurique (36,96%) ou anurique (17,39%). Lâindication de dialyse a concernĂ© 50 patients (54,34%) dont 68% dâIR oligurique et 32% dâIR anurique, mais seuls 20% ont pu lâeffectuer. En tout, 39,13% dâĂ©tiologies primitives et 60,87% de secondaires ont Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ©es. Syndrome nĂ©phrotique (17,39%) et glomĂ©rulonĂ©phrite aiguĂ« (6,52%) Ă©taient les principales Ă©tiologies primitives de lâIR aiguĂ«, et paludisme Ă P. falciparum (21,73%) et septicĂ©mie (15,21%), les principales Ă©tiologies secondaires. LâanĂ©mie Ă©tait la pathologie associĂ©e la plus frĂ©quente, prĂ©sente chez tous les patients, seule (23,91%) ou associĂ©e Ă dâautres pathologies (76,08%). Le retard Ă lâadmission (80,44%), lâinaccessibilitĂ© Ă la dialyse (80%), les Ă©tiologies primitives dâIR (39,13%) et lâassociation de plusieurs pathologies (76,08%) Ă©taient liĂ©s Ă la plupart des dĂ©cĂšs. Le taux de mortalitĂ© gĂ©nĂ©ral a Ă©tĂ© de 47,82%. Les difficultĂ©s financiĂšres des parents, la raretĂ© des unitĂ©s de dialyse etlâinexistence dâun service de nĂ©phrologie ont Ă©tĂ© les obstacles majeurs Ă la prise en charge efficace de lâIR.Conclusion. La plupart des causes dâIR dans cette Ă©tude sont Ă©vitables. Des mesures prĂ©ventives pertinentes, la crĂ©ation dâun service de nĂ©phrologie et de nouvelles unitĂ©s de dialyse peuvent rĂ©duire lamorbiditĂ© et la mortalitĂ© de lâIR de lâenfant.Mots clĂ©s: Insuffisance rĂ©nale, enfant, Ă©tiologie, pathologie associĂ©e, dialyse, Ă©volution, Togo
Communication interauriculaire (cia) chez l'enfant au Togo: Aspects epidemiologiques, diagnostiques et prise en charge.
Contrary to developed countries, the CIA still pose a big diagnostical and therapeutical problem in developing countries. In Togo, some children, porters of CIA have benefited the humanitarian work of the "Terre des Hommes" (TDH). Our study has been done to evaluate the work done. Our aim is to study the epidemiological, diagnostical and take over of the CIA in Togo. It is about retrospective study of 41 files of the children less than 15 years old, porters of the CIA registered at the TDH from January 1990 to December 2002. The clinical, paraclinical, therapeutical and evolutive perimeters have been studied and the treatment of results have been done by computer. The CIA represents 29.08% of the congenital cardiopathys registered at the TDH. The sex-ratio is of 1.14%. The average age is of 4.5 years. The frequent reason of consultation is dyspnea at 32.22%. The systolic souffle, the base of heart enlarged and deviated at left and the deformation of the thorax have been the physical dominative signs respectively in 100%, 34.15% and 32% of cases. The CIA in our study was associated with CIV in 19.51% of cases and with the tetralogy of Fallot in 4.88%. We had found 92.68% of CIA ostium secundum. The Ÿ of children had been transferred and received in majority by Swiss (70%) where surgical curative had been done (90%). The take over of the CIA in Togo is still a major problem that only the creation of cardiovascular surgical unit will remedy. Contrairement au pays dĂ©veloppĂ©s, la Communication Interauriculaire (CIA) pose encore dâĂ©normes problĂšmes diagnostiques et thĂ©rapeutiques dans les pays en voie de dĂ©veloppement. Au Togo, certains enfants porteurs de CIA ont bĂ©nĂ©ficiĂ© de lâoeuvre de bienfaisance de "Terre des Hommes" (TDH). Notre Ă©tude a Ă©tĂ© faite en vue dâĂ©valuer le travail effectuĂ©. Nos objectifs Ă©taient dâĂ©tudier les aspects Ă©pidĂ©miologiques, diagnostiques et la prise en charge des CIA au Togo. Il sâagit dâune Ă©tude rĂ©trospective de 41 dossiers dâenfants de moins de 15 ans porteurs de CIA et enregistrĂ©s Ă TDH de janvier 1990 Ă dĂ©cembre 2002. Les paramĂštres cliniques, paracliniques, thĂ©rapeutiques et Ă©volutifs ont Ă©tĂ© Ă©tudiĂ©s et le traitement des donnĂ©es a Ă©tĂ© fait par lâoutil informatique. Les CIA reprĂ©sentent 29,08% des cardiopathies congĂ©nitales (CC) enregistrĂ©es Ă TDH. La sex-ratio est de 1,14. LâĂąge moyen est de 4,5 ans. La dyspnĂ©e Ă©tait le motif de consultation le plus frĂ©quent Ă 32,22%. Le souffle systolique, le choc de pointe Ă©talĂ© et dĂ©viĂ© Ă gauche et la dĂ©formation thoracique ont Ă©tĂ© les signes physiques dominants respectivement dans 100%, 34,15% et 32% des cas. La cardiomĂ©galie avait Ă©tĂ© observĂ©e dans 70,73% des cas. Les CIA de notre Ă©tude Ă©taient associĂ©es aux CIV dans 19,51% des cas et Ă la T4 de Fallot dans 4,88%. Nous avions retrouvĂ© 92,68% de CIA ostium secundum. Les trois quarts des enfants avaient Ă©tĂ© transfĂ©rĂ©s et accueillis en majoritĂ© par la Suisse (70%) oĂč une chirurgie curatrice avait Ă©tĂ© pratiquĂ©e (90%). La prise en charge des CIA au Togo reste un problĂšme majeur que seule la crĂ©ation de chirurgie cardio-vasculaire remĂ©dierait