Centre Hospitalier Régional de Metz-Thionville

Intermittent or Continuous Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury

BackgroundThe preferred method of renal-replacement therapy for acute kidney injury in critically ill patients remains uncertain. MethodsIn this multicenter, open-label, noninferiority trial, we randomly assigned critically ill adults with acute kidney injury who had indications...

Prognostic performance of the systemic immune-inflammation index in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a multicenter emergency department study

Abstract Introduction The systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) has been proposed as a simple prognostic biomarker in COVID-19, but its performance relative to routinely available inflammatory markers and its incremental value beyond clinical predictors remain uncertain. We ev...

From fluid loss to calcification: MRI and CT matrix features in cystic echinococcosis

Abstract Objective To characterize MRI matrix signal and CT calcification patterns across WHO-IWGE stages, compare them with lesion mimicking cystic echinococcosis (CE), and derive an MRI-based subclassification for inactive cysts. Materials and methods This retrospective multice...

Alcohol and tobacco in cancer: A unified framework of interaction across carcinogenic pathways and cancer types

Background Alcohol and tobacco are among the leading preventable causes of cancer worldwide and frequently co-occur. While both are well-established independent carcinogens, their combined effects remain insufficiently characterized and inconsistently interpreted across cancer ty...