Zachary Blatman, Anne Rowan-Legg, Joshua K Schaffzin, Nagwa Wilson, Nicole Bechard
{"title":"Powassan virus encephalitis in a 9-year-old.","authors":"Zachary Blatman, Anne Rowan-Legg, Joshua K Schaffzin, Nagwa Wilson, Nicole Bechard","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.240227","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.240227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11349341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142072126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeffrey Man Hay Wong, Chelsea Elwood, Deborah Money, Julie van Schalkwyk
{"title":"Listeriosis in pregnancy.","authors":"Jeffrey Man Hay Wong, Chelsea Elwood, Deborah Money, Julie van Schalkwyk","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.241056","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.241056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11349340/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142072123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raquel María Dominguez-Lopez, Jorge Naharro-Rodriguez
{"title":"Présence de vésicules hémorragiques intraorales comme premier symptôme d’une amylose à chaîne légère d’immunoglobulines.","authors":"Raquel María Dominguez-Lopez, Jorge Naharro-Rodriguez","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.240119-f","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.240119-f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11349343/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142072127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Déprescription de la médication contre le diabète chez les personnes âgées fragiles.","authors":"Iliana C Lega, Wade Thompson, Lisa M McCarthy","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.231411-f","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.231411-f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11318985/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La fumée des incendies de forêt.","authors":"Elaheh Ghodsi, Mehdi Aloosh","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.240135-f","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.240135-f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11318978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"August 2024 obituaries.","authors":"","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.241066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.241066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afin d’éliminer le cancer du col de l’utérus au Canada, le dépistage du virus du papillome humain doit être financé à l’échelle nationale.","authors":"Shannon Charlebois, Sarah Kean","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.240722-f","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.240722-f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11318980/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bulging fontanelle in a febrile 9-month-old girl.","authors":"Takashi Shoji, Kazuki Iio, Hiroshi Sakakibara","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.240129","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.240129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11318983/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cairina Frank, Noor Amily, Erin Kelly, Miriam Kimpton, Pierre Villeneuve, Paloma O'Meara
{"title":"Polyglobulie essentielle et hypertension portale non cirrhotique diagnostiquées en cours de grossesse.","authors":"Cairina Frank, Noor Amily, Erin Kelly, Miriam Kimpton, Pierre Villeneuve, Paloma O'Meara","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.231170-f","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.231170-f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11318984/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruixuan Chen, Shiyu Zhou, Jiao Liu, Lu Li, Licong Su, Yanqin Li, Chuyao Fang, Xiaodong Zhang, Fan Luo, Qi Gao, Yuxin Lin, Zhixin Guo, Lisha Cao, Xin Xu, Sheng Nie
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a common cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. Evidence suggests that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) decrease liver fibrosis, an intermediate step between liver injury and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our aim was to investigate the association between the use of ACEIs and ARBs on incident HCC and liver-related mortality among patients with HBV infection.
Methods: We conducted a population-based study on a new-user cohort of patients seen at 24 hospitals across China. We included adult patients with HBV infection who started ACEIs or ARBs (ACEIs/ARBs), or calcium channel blockers or thiazide diuretics (CCBs/THZs) from January 2012 to December 2022. The primary outcome was incident HCC; secondary outcomes were liver-related mortality and new-onset cirrhosis. We used propensity score matching and Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of study outcomes.
Results: Among 32 692 eligible patients (median age 58 [interquartile range (IQR) 48-68] yr, and 18 804 male [57.5%]), we matched 9946 pairs of patients starting ACEIs/ARBs or CCBs/THZs. During a mean follow-up of 2.3 years, the incidence rate of HCC per 1000 person-years was 4.11 and 5.94 among patients who started ACEIs/ARBs and CCBs/THZs, respectively, in the matched cohort. Use of ACEIs/ARBs was associated with lower risks of incident HCC (HR 0.66, 95% CI 0.50-0.86), liver-related mortality (HR 0.77, 95% CI 0.64-0.93), and new-onset cirrhosis (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.70-0.94).
Interpretation: In this cohort of patients with HBV infection, new users of ACEIs/ARBs had a lower risk of incident HCC, liver-related mortality, and new-onset cirrhosis than new users of CCBs/THZs.
{"title":"Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma among patients with hepatitis B virus infection.","authors":"Ruixuan Chen, Shiyu Zhou, Jiao Liu, Lu Li, Licong Su, Yanqin Li, Chuyao Fang, Xiaodong Zhang, Fan Luo, Qi Gao, Yuxin Lin, Zhixin Guo, Lisha Cao, Xin Xu, Sheng Nie","doi":"10.1503/cmaj.240003","DOIUrl":"10.1503/cmaj.240003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a common cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. Evidence suggests that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) decrease liver fibrosis, an intermediate step between liver injury and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our aim was to investigate the association between the use of ACEIs and ARBs on incident HCC and liver-related mortality among patients with HBV infection.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a population-based study on a new-user cohort of patients seen at 24 hospitals across China. We included adult patients with HBV infection who started ACEIs or ARBs (ACEIs/ARBs), or calcium channel blockers or thiazide diuretics (CCBs/THZs) from January 2012 to December 2022. The primary outcome was incident HCC; secondary outcomes were liver-related mortality and new-onset cirrhosis. We used propensity score matching and Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of study outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 32 692 eligible patients (median age 58 [interquartile range (IQR) 48-68] yr, and 18 804 male [57.5%]), we matched 9946 pairs of patients starting ACEIs/ARBs or CCBs/THZs. During a mean follow-up of 2.3 years, the incidence rate of HCC per 1000 person-years was 4.11 and 5.94 among patients who started ACEIs/ARBs and CCBs/THZs, respectively, in the matched cohort. Use of ACEIs/ARBs was associated with lower risks of incident HCC (HR 0.66, 95% CI 0.50-0.86), liver-related mortality (HR 0.77, 95% CI 0.64-0.93), and new-onset cirrhosis (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.70-0.94).</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>In this cohort of patients with HBV infection, new users of ACEIs/ARBs had a lower risk of incident HCC, liver-related mortality, and new-onset cirrhosis than new users of CCBs/THZs.</p>","PeriodicalId":9609,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Medical Association journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11318981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}