Ganados con lesiones de tuberculosis : Bases para el comiso de las carnes

La actualización de los conocimientos existentes sobre la materia, el estudio de las reglamentaciones de diversos países y del nuestro, como consecuencia del criterio adoptado para el comiso de reses total o parcialmente afectadas de tuberculosis, el de sus fundamentos científicos y el examen de las opiniones expuestas por los profesionales que suscriben, han permitido a la Comisión producir el presente informe.Los autores de esta comunicación fueron designados oficialmente por la Provincia de Buenos Aires, miembros de la "Comisión de técnicos para el estudio y actualización de las disposiciones reglamentarias en vigencia sobre comisos de carnes procedentes de animales portadoras de lesiones tuberculosas".Academia Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinari

To tell the Trojan war today: Contemporary performances of Agamemnon

This paper compares the reception of the Trojan War in several contemporary performances of Agamemnon by Aeschylus. Using the traditional opposition between myth and history, I propose an analysis of the depiction of the war in these productions. The stage directors are principally relying on analogical processes to create an idea of the war, allowing this paper to contribute to highlight how contemporary theatre deals with ancient myths

Etiology of neonatal seizures and maintenance therapy use: a 10-year retrospective study at Toulouse Children’s hospital

Abstract Background No guidelines exist concerning the maintenance antiepileptic drug to use after neonatal seizures. Practices vary from one hospital to another. The aim of this study was to investigate etiologies and to report on the use of maintenance antiepileptic therapy in our population of full-term neonates presenting neonatal seizures. Methods From January 2004 to October 2014, we retrospectively collected data from all full-term neonates with neonatal seizures admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Toulouse, France. Results Two hundred and forty-three neonates were included (59% males, 48% electroencephalographic confirmation). The frequencies of etiologies of neonatal seizures were: hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) (n = 91; 37%), ischemic infarction (n = 36; 15%), intracranial hemorrhage (n = 29; 12%), intracranial infection (n = 19; 8%), metabolic or electrolyte disorders (n = 9; 3%), inborn errors of metabolism (n = 5; 2%), congenital malformations of the central nervous system (n = 11; 5%), epileptic syndromes (n = 27; 12%) and unknown (n = 16; 7%). A maintenance therapy was prescribed in 180 (72%) newborns: valproic acid (n = 123), carbamazepine (n = 28), levetiracetam (n = 17), vigabatrin (n = 2), and phenobarbital (n = 4). In our cohort, the choice of antiepileptic drug depended mainly on etiology. The average duration of treatment was six months. Conclusions In our cohort, valproic acid was the most frequently prescribed maintenance antiepileptic therapy. However, the arrival on the market of new antiepileptic drugs and a better understanding of the physiopathology of genetic encephalopathies is changing our practice. Trial registration Retrospectively registered. Patient data were reported to the “Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés” under the number 2106953

Arthrogryposis in children: Etiological assessments and preparation of a protocol for etiological investigations

International audienceArthrogryposis is a descriptive term defining a sign. It describes a set of joint contractures, sometimes identifiable in utero, present from birth and nonprogressive. This term includes a heterogeneous group of diseases, of neurological, neuromuscular, genetic or mechanical origin. The common physiopathological mechanism is fetal immobility syndrome. Two types of classification have been developed: a clinical one (types I, II and III) and an etiological one. The main aim of this study was to define a standardized protocol for etiological investigation based on a descriptive analysis of the various etiologies identified in a population of children followed up for arthrogryposis. Its secondary aim was to assess first the comprehensiveness and relevance of the complementary assessment and second the way in which the classifications proposed by Professor Judith Goslin Hall are applied

Sudden death by arrythmia in a 4-year-old boy

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A Prospective Study of Arterial Spin Labelling in Paediatric Posterior Fossa Tumour Survivors: A Correlation with Neurocognitive Impairment

International audienceAims: Posterior fossa tumours (PFTs), which account for two-thirds of paediatric brain tumours, are successfully treated in about 70% of patients, but most survivors experience long-term cognitive impairment. We evaluated arterial spin labelling (ASL), a common, non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, as a biomarker of cognitive impairment in a paediatric PFT survivor population.Materials and methods: Sixty participants were prospectively analysed. PFT survivors were at least 5 years post-treatment and had been treated as appropriate for their age and type of tumour. Group 1 had received radiotherapy and Group 2 had not. Group 3 were healthy controls matched to Group 1 for age, sex and handedness. All participants underwent cognitive assessment and multimodal MRI, including an ASL perfusion sequence. We used semi-quantitative ASL methods to assess differences in mean perfusion in the thalamus, caudate, putamen and hippocampus.Results: Statistically, no significant associations between cognitive data and radiation doses were identified. Compared with healthy controls, Group 1 patients had significantly lower overall mean perfusion values (20-30% lower, depending on the cerebral structure) and Group 2 had slightly lower mean perfusion values (5-10% lower). Perfusion values did not correlate with total prescribed irradiation doses nor with doses received by different cerebral structures. Episodic and semantic memory test scores were significantly lower in Group 1 and correlated with lower mean absolute perfusion values in the hippocampus (P < 0.04).Conclusions: These preliminary results indicate that radiotherapy affects the perfusion of specific cerebral structures and identify perfusion as a potential biomarker of hippocampus-dependent memory deficit

Transforming images: Exploring powerful children

The perception of children as vulnerable, instead of powerful, beings is the opposite of what is found to be the case in the historic evidence. The paper investigates the relationship between ideology and material culture by examining some attitudes towards children found in Scandinavian traditions, which have been connected with archaeological finds. This concerns the area of the Norse Sagas and the comparative studies of religion, folk medicine and folklore in relationship to the tradition of burial alive in the Nordic regions. In relation to children's access to origin of a cosmological order it looks into the Norwegian Odal law of the firstborn and pre-Christian practices concerning the treatment of children