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Objective To assess the incidence of serious complications and reoperations for recurrence after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and compare the three most common types of repair. Design Prospective cohort study using a registry. Setting Nineteen French surgical centres. Population A total of 2309 women participated between 2017 and 2019. Methods A multivariate analysis including an inverse probability of treatment weighting approach was used to obtain three comparable groups. Main outcome measures Serious complications and subsequent reoperations for POP recurrence. Results The median follow-up time was 17.6 months. Surgeries were native tissue vaginal repairs (n = 504), transvaginal mesh placements (n = 692) and laparoscopic sacropexies with mesh (n = 1113). Serious complications occurred among 52 women (2.3%), and reoperation for POP recurrence was required for 32 women (1.4%). At 1 year the cumulative weighted incidence of serious complications was 1.8% for native tissue vaginal repair, 3.9% for transvaginal mesh and 2.2% for sacropexy, and the rates for reoperation for recurrence of POP were 1.5, 0.7 and 1.1%, respectively. Compared with native tissue vaginal repair, the risk of serious complications was higher in the transvaginal mesh group (weighted hazard ratio, wHR 3.84, 95% CI 2.43-6.08) and the sacropexy group (wHR 2.48, 95% CI 1.45-4.23), whereas the risk of reoperation for prolapse recurrence was lower in both the transvaginal mesh (wHR 0.22, 95% CI 0.13-0.39) and sacropexy (wHR 0.29, 95% CI 0.18-0.47) groups. Conclusions Our results suggest that native tissue vaginal repairs have the lowest risk of serious complications but the highest risk of reoperation for recurrence. These results are useful for informing women and for shared decision making. Tweetable abstract Laparoscopic sacropexy had fewer serious complications than transvaginal mesh and fewer reoperations for recurrence than vaginal repair.

International audience; Objectifs : la chirurgie de l’incontinence urinaire d’effort (IUE) par bandelettes sous-urétrales (BSU) fait l’objet d’essais cliniques limités en taille, rapportant peu les complications rares et la qualité de vie (QdV). Les registres permettent de rapporter ces complications rares dans la pratique courante et de mesurer la QdV globale, du point du vue des troubles urinaires et pelviens.Méthodes : l’objectif du registre VIGI-MESH est de spécifier l’incidence de ces complications rares et graves en fonction des différents types de BSU (rétropubiennes, transobturatrices, à incision unique/mini-bandelettes) ainsi que de mesurer cette QdV après la pose de BSU. Entre février 2017 et novembre 2019, chaque chirurgie initiale ou de reprise de BSU dans un des 18 centres participants était colligée sur un formulaire par le chirurgien. Un contrôle était effectué à partir des pharmacies délivrant les dispositifs médicaux implantés et des actes codés par les centres participants. Un questionnaire recherchant une complication était envoyé à toutes les patientes à un an. Il comportait également des questions validées en français sur le bien-être ressenti et l’amélioration des symptômes (WHO, European Quality of life Questionnaire 5 Dimensions [EQ5D], Patient Global Impression of Improvement [PGI-I]) Les complications ont été gradées selon la classification de Clavien–Dindo : arrêt de l’intervention sans pose de matériel (grade III), intervention chirurgicale ultérieure secondaire à une complication (grade III), complication menaçant la vie (grade IV), décès de la patiente (grade V).Résultats : quatre-vingt-deux patientes ont eu des complications de grade ≥ III : 5,7 % (53/923) voie rétropubienne, 4,0 % (21/521) voie transobturatrice et 2,2 % (8/370) mini-bandelette. Dix complications peropératoires ont empêché la pose de BSU. La BSU a été desserrée dans les 48 h dans 6 cas. Le risque de complication était 3 fois plus faible avec une mini-bandellette par rapport à une BSU rétropubienne (RR = 0,36 [0,170,75]), le risque n’était pas significativement différent entre les approches transobturatrice et rétropubienne (RR = 0,67 [0,40–1,11]). Vingt-sept femmes (1,5 %) ont eu une reprise chirurgicale pour échec ou récidive, 15 après BSU rétropubienne (1,6 %), 7 après bandelette transobturatrice (1,4 %) et 5 après mini-bandelette (1,4 % ; p = 0,95) (Fig. 1). La procédure a consisté à retendre la BSU (9 cas), injection de Bulkamid® (2 cas) et mise en place d’une seconde BSU (16 cas). Parmi les 1167 patientes contactées par courrier, 692 réponses (59,3 %) ont été retournées à un an ou plus après la chirurgie. À la question « Que pensez-vous de votre état de santé actuel par rapport à ce qu’il était avant votre chirurgie pour incontinence ou prolapsus ? » 91,4 % (608/665) se sentaient mieux (beaucoup mieux, mieux ou un peu mieux) (PGI-I). L’amélioration ressentie était meilleure en l’absence de complications graves ≥ III (p = 0,008). Parmi les patientes, 96,2 % (630/655) ont évalué leur état de santé général comme étant bon (très bon, bon ou assez bon). L’état de santé général ressenti était similaire qu’elles aient eu ou non des complications. Par rapport à la population française du même âge, les patientes opérées d’une BSU ont déclaré avoir un meilleur état de la santé.Conclusion : les premiers résultats du registre VIGI-MESH montrent que les mini-bandelettes sont une option thérapeutique avec une efficacité à moyen terme similaire aux voies rétropubiennes et transobturatrices avec moins de complications. Ils montrent également que plus de 90 % des patientes rapportent avoir été améliorées par la mise en place d’une BSU pour IUE. Le ressenti de l’état de santé global des patientes opérées était meilleur que celui de la population française féminine du même âge. Néanmoins, une analyse à plus long terme est nécessaire pour confirmer ces premiers résultats.

International audience; We found for the first time that in maintenance hemodialysis patients, higher sclerostin serum level was associated with severe abdominal aortic calcification (AAC). In addition, cortical bone microarchitecture (density and thickness) assessed by high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) at tibia was also independently associated with severe AAC. These results suggest that sclerostin may be involved in the association of mineral and bone disorder with vascular calcification in hemodialysis patients. INTRODUCTION: Severe abdominal aortic calcifications are predictive of high cardiovascular mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. In patients with end-stage renal disease, a high aortic calcification score was associated with lower bone turnover on bone biopsies. Thus, we hypothesized that sclerostin, a Wnt pathway inhibitor mainly secreted by osteocytes and acting on osteoblasts to reduce bone formation, may be associated with vascular calcifications in MHD patients. METHODS: Fifty-three MHD patients, aged 53 years [35-63] (median [Q1-Q3]) were included. Serum was sampled before the MHD session to assay sclerostin. Framingham score was computed and the abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) score was assessed according to Kauppila method on lateral spine imaging using DEXA. Tibia bone status was evaluated by high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT). Patients were distributed into two groups according to their AAC score: patients with mild or without AAC (score below 6) versus patients with severe AAC (score of 6 and above). RESULTS: In multivariate analysis, after adjustment on age, dialysis duration and diabetes, serum sclerostin and cortical thickness were independently associated with severe AAC (odds ratio (OR) = 1.43 for each 0.1 ng/mL increase [95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.10-1.83]; p = 0.006 and 0.16 for 1 SD increase [0.03-0.73]; p = 0.018, respectively). A second cardiovascular model adjusted on Framingham score and the above mentioned confounders showed similar results. CONCLUSIONS: Elevated sclerostin serum level and poorer tibia cortical bone structure by HR-pQCT were positively and independently associated with higher odds of severe AAC in MHD patients. Serum sclerostin may become a biomarker of mineral and bone disorder and vascular risk in MHD patients.

cited By 40; International audience; A reliable and rapid speciation method for the simultaneous determination of butyl- and phenyltin species in biological samples has been developed. Three extraction procedures are compared: enzymatic hydrolysis and solubilization by ethanoic and hydrochloric acids. Derivatization is performed by the one-step ethylation/extraction procedure using the sodium tetraethylborate reagent directly in the aqueous phase in the presence of an isooctane layer. Analysis is performed using capillary gas chromatography coupled to flame photometric detection. The detection limits are in the range of a few ng(Sn)/g. Analysis of the environmental samples and the certified reference material demonstrates the accuracy of the analytical method.

cited By 56; International audience; An organotin speciation method was optimized for the simultaneous determination of mono-, di- and tri-butyltin compounds and mono-, di- and tri-phenyltin compounds in water. The procedure was based on a one-step simultaneous ethylation and extraction using the sodium tetraethylborate reagent directly in the aqueous phase in the presence of an isooctane layer. Direct extract analysis was performed using capillary gas chromatography and flame photometric detection (GC-FPD). This derivatization procedure reduces drastically the number of analytical steps, thus saving time and improving reliability. Relative detection limits range from 0.4 to 0.8 ng dm-3 for butyltin species and from 0.7 to 2.1 ng dm-3 for phenyltin species; the linearity ranges from 0 to 400 ng dm-3 Analysis of environmental aqueous samples and a Certified Reference Material (CRM) demonstrates the accuracy of the analytical method.

We studied two outbreaks of calf salmonellosis caused by apramycin and gentamicin-resistant Salmonella typhimurium strains. In both cases, the responsible strains were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, streptomycin, tetracycline, and trimethoprim; one strain was also resistant to nalidixic acid in one outbreak. A systematic survey of the intestinal Escherichia coli strains of calves from the two affected flocks showed that 11 of 24 animals sampled were also colonized by apramycin- and gentamicin-resistant E. coli strains. These isolates belonged to four biotypes and were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, streptomycin, tetracycline, trimethoprim, and nalidixic acid. All of the strains were resistant to high levels of apramycin (MICs, 512 to 1,024 micrograms/ml) and to gentamicin (MICs, 8 to 32 micrograms/ml), and these resistances were always transferred en bloc. In S. typhimurium, this coresistance was borne by plasmids that were approximately 39 kilobases long (outbreak 1) or 90 kilobases long (outbreak 2), whereas in E. coli, the coresistance was due to plasmids that were approximately 110 kilobases long in both outbreaks. The two plasmids of Salmonella and four plasmids of E. coli encoded type IV aminoglycoside 3-N-acetyltransferases. The intensive use of curative and preventive treatments in calf production could be responsible for the emergence of enzymic resistance to apramycin and gentamicin.