An outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis in a school of Madrid, Spain.

An outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Campylobacter infection was identified in May 2003 in a school in Madrid, Spain. Eighty one cases were identified in a total of 253 people studied. A retrospective cohort study showed that a custard made with ultra high temperature (UHT) milk was associated with illness (RR: 3.15; 95% CI: 1.25-7.93). The custard was probably contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni from a raw chicken prepared a day previously in the same kitchen. Our recommendations were to periodically remind the school s authorities how to act if an outbreak should be suspected, to include the monitoring of a food handler s working day in each environmental investigation in order to detect any risk behaviour; to implement microbiological analysis from the surfaces and utensils of the collective kitchens and improve the sanitary education of food handlers.

An outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis in a school of Madrid, Spain.

An outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Campylobacter infection was identified in May 2003 in a school in Madrid, Spain. Eighty one cases were identified in a total of 253 people studied. A retrospective cohort study showed that a custard made with ultra high temperature (UHT) milk was associated with illness (RR: 3.15; 95% CI: 1.25-7.93). The custard was probably contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni from a raw chicken prepared a day previously in the same kitchen. Our recommendations were to periodically remind the school's authorities how to act if an outbreak should be suspected, to include the monitoring of a food handler's working day in each environmental investigation in order to detect any risk behaviour; to implement microbiological analysis from the surfaces and utensils of the collective kitchens and improve the sanitary education of food handlers.

[Intraductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate]. / Adénocarcinome intraductal de la prostate.

Three patients with a mean age of 69 years presented with endometrioid carcinoma of the prostate between 1995 and 2000. With a mean follow-up of 17 months, 2 patients are alive without metastases and 1 has died from another cause. Endometrioid carcinoma represents less than 5% of all prostate cancers. Its histological origin has been the subject of controversy for a long time. The clinical presentation is often unusual and the natural history is considered to be more aggressive than that of the glandular form of prostatic cancer. Endometrioid carcinoma of the prostate is not derived from Müllerian structures, but from prostatic tissue. It is an unusual form of prostatic cancer, whose clinical course and treatment are the same as those of adenocarcinoma.

[Distal vascular access for chronic hemodialysis in patients over 65 years of age. Surgical results]. / Abords vascularies distaux pour hémodialyse chronique après 65 ans. Résultats chirurgicaux.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the results of vascular accesses for chronic haemodialysis in elderly patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 56 consecutive vascular accesses for haemodialysis were performed from November 1993 to December 1995 in patients over the age of 65 years. The policy adopted was to prefer distal accesses: only forearm accesses, primary arteriovenous fistula (AVF) or radio-M venous bioprosthesis shunt (AVS) were performed. Surgical or interventional radiological reoperation rates and abandonment rates were evaluated. RESULTS: 13 AVF (mean age: 74.5 years) and 43 AVS (mean age: 73.8 years) were analysed. The mean number of reoperations was significantly higher in the shunt group. 1 out of 13 AVF was abandoned versus 9 out of 43 AVS (no significant difference). DISCUSSION: AVS gave poor results in terms of reoperation rate, inducing a high cost and impairment of the quality of life of these patients. Their survival in this population was comparable to that of AVF. Several teams prefer to perform first-line humero-cephalic or humero-basilic arteriovenous fistulas whenever a simple fistula in the forearm cannot be performed. They appear to give better results, but their use in the elderly is poorly evaluated. Peritoneal dialysis may be preferable to haemodialysis in the elderly. As vascular accesses are increasingly performed in elderly subjects with a reduced life expectancy, protection of the proximal venous capital does not appear to be a sufficient argument to justify the use of AVS in this population. CONCLUSION: This study encouraged us to abandon the use of prostheses in the forearm in favour of direct accesses in the arms.