Bordeaux Population Health

Optimizing Portal Venous Phase Acquisition Quality of Contrast-Enhanced CT in Oncology

Background: Portal venous phase (PVP) contrast-enhanced CT is a cornerstone for response assessment in early-phase oncology trials, yet contrast-enhancement phase timing remains insufficiently monitored across sites. We assessed PVP timing using a validated artificial intelligenc...

Initial treatment strategies and outcomes across haemodynamic thresholds and risk stratification in incident systemic sclerosis–associated pulmonary arterial hypertension: a EUSTAR analysis

OBJECTIVE: Real-world initial treatment strategies in SSc-PAH remain incompletely described. We aimed to characterise these strategies across haemodynamic thresholds and risk strata and evaluate outcome associations. METHODS: We analysed treatment-naïve SSc-PAH patients in EUSTAR...

Cutaneous Lymphoma International Prognostic Index and Risk Stratification in Advanced Mycosis Fungoides and Sézary Syndrome

Importance Risk stratification in advanced mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome (MF/SS) remains suboptimal given that current TNMB (tumor, node, metastasis, blood) staging has limited prognostic value for clinically relevant outcomes. Objective To determine whether the Cutaneous...

Self-assembled nucleolipid G-quadruplexes act as multitarget decoys for oncogene suppression in pancreatic cancer

Abstract KRAS mutations drive multiple cancers and represent an important therapeutic target, together with other oncogenic regulators such as MYC , KIT , and BCL2 that are critically involved in pancreatic cancer. Here we describe a novel therapeutic strategy based on stable nuc...

Monitoring symptoms and performance in rehabilitation: Can we detect COPD exacerbation?

Background In patients with COPD, exacerbations mark disease progression, with significant reduction in quality of life and impact on mortality. Early detection is crucial to mitigate their consequences. The aim of this study was to investigate whether monitoring symptoms and exe...

Evaluation of Oral Health in Early Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease

Background/Objectives: Oral health may be affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD) through mechanisms including uremic toxin accumulation, immune dysregulation, and treatment-related factors, although these relationships remain poorly understood. This study aimed to describe oral...

Wild-type and mutated ß-catenin differently repress RND3/RHOE expression in hepatocellular carcinoma

Tumor development and progression are mainly driven by oncogenic mutations but are also regulated by physical factors. Through its structural and transcriptional functions, ß-catenin is a key factor that acts on both aspects to promote liver tumorigenesis, leading to hepatocellul...

Immune‐related adverse events with mogamulizumab in cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma: A multicentre study

BACKGROUND: Mogamulizumab, an anti-CCR4 monoclonal antibody used in advanced mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sezary syndrome (SS), also depletes regulatory T cells, potentially leading to immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Unlike mogamulizumab-associated rash (MAR), other irAEs re...

Intensity and instability of affective and cognitive states in borderline personality disorder compared to remitted mood disorders and population-based controls: an Ecological Momentary Assessment study

Abstract Background Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) is one of the methods of choice for the evaluation of affective dynamics. Several studies have been conducted on the subject focusing on borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, most have only compared BPD to health...

Serum GFAP and Age Accurately Distinguish AQP4 ‐ IgG Positive and Double Seronegative NMOSD From MOGAD After a Recent Attack

BACKGROUND: Serum neurofilament-light chain (sNfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (sGFAP) are associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) activity. This study aimed to identify patient- and disease-level determinants of sNfL and sGFAP and to evaluate their ability to support dif...

Performance of pseudonymization methods applied to hospital documents in the context of health data warehouses

Introduction The development of health data warehouses (HDWs) in France raises concerns about personal data protection. Regulations require health research to use anonymized or pseudonymized data. This study evaluates a document pseudonymization tool developed by Assistance Publi...

Controlling Spin Filtering through Molecular Length in Helical Aromatic Oligomers

Chiral 8-amino-2-carboxylic acid quinoline-based aromatic oligoamide foldamers with lengths up to circa 5 nm were synthesized to investigate their spin filtering properties. A thiolated quinoline monomer was designed and incorporated at one extremity of the chiral helices to enab...

Mitral Valve Lithotripsy With SmartCrack Balloon for Severe Calcified Mitral Stenosis: First‐in‐Human Experience

Background Mitral stenosis due to mitral annular calcification and calcific rheumatic heart disease (CRHD) remains challenging to treat. This first‐in‐human study evaluated the safety and feasibility of the dedicated SmartCrack lithotripsy balloon in patients with severe mitral s...

Auditing sex/gender disparities in emergency triage with LLM-based paired comparisons

We present a domain-agnostic paired-comparison approach that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to quantify sex/gender-related asymmetries in documented clinical decision-making. The method trains an LLM to emulate observed decisions, then evaluates sex-swapped pairs in which only...

Built-in selection bias in proportional hazards models with omitted covariates: Simulation evidence and alternative approaches

In time-to-event analysis, the hazard ratio derived from the Cox proportional hazards model is the most commonly used and widely reported measure for assessing treatment effects. However, hazard ratios are non-collapsible due to their inherent conditioning on survival up to each...

p190A / ARHGAP35 and p190B / ARHGAP5 proteins in endometrial cancer: a novel cancer‐relevant paralog interplay

Endometrial cancer is one of the main gynecological malignancies worldwide. Several studies highlight ARHGAP35 as a significantly mutated gene in these tumors. It encodes for p190RhoGAP-A (p190A), which is a major regulator of the small GTPase family of proteins. ARHGAP5 is a par...

A Reproducible MRI‐Based Pipeline for Longitudinal Tracking of Laser‐Assisted Bioprinted Cells in Three‐Dimensional Constructs

ABSTRACT Laser‐assisted bioprinting (LAB) enables precise spatial patterning of living cells within three‐dimensional constructs; however, the lack of non‐destructive, standardised methods for longitudinal evaluation remains a major limitation to construct optimisation and transl...

Design and analytical validation of Nexthyro 2.0, a custom next-generation sequencing panel integrating DNA mutation profiling and RNA fusion detection for routine thyroid pathology specimens

Abstract The increasing role of molecular testing in thyroid pathology, from the pre-operative stratification of indeterminate fine-needle aspiration (FNA) categories to the management of advanced carcinomas, has prompted the development of institution-specific custom NGS solutio...

Efficacy of rTMS in Post‐Stroke Bilingual Aphasia: A Single Case Experimental Design

BACKGROUND: The application of non-invasive brain stimulation in the rehabilitation of bilingual individuals with aphasia following a stroke is understudied. Recent studies show benefits of anodal cerebellar transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in bilinguals, while in monoling...

Robot-Assisted Versus Open and Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy with Inferior Vena Cava Thrombectomy forRenal Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background/Objectives: To compare perioperative, pathological, functional, and oncological outcomes of robot-assisted radical nephrectomy with inferior vena cava tumor thrombectomy (RARN-TT) versus open (ORN-TT) and laparoscopic (LRN-TT) approaches. Methods: PubMed, Scopus, and W...