[Bacterial endophthalmitis: retrospective clinical and microbiological study in Rabat Specialty Hospital]. / Endophtalmies bactériennes: étude rétrospective clinique et microbiologique à l'hôpital des spécialités de Rabat.

OBJECTIVES: To study and discuss the epidemiological, clinical, microbiological, and risk factors of bacterial endophthalmitis treated in the Rabat Specialty Hospital ophthalmology department. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective study over a period of 10 months of patients hospitalized for suspected acute infectious endophthalmitis. An intake form was completed for each patient. Each sample underwent direct examination and culture. All patients underwent the same protocol, providing for at least one intravitreal antibiotic injection and instillation of fortified eye drops. RESULTS: Twenty cases of endophthalmitis were recorded during the study period. Decreased visual acuity, intraocular inflammation, pain and conjunctival hyperemia were found in all patients. The median onset of symptoms was 4 days. Vitreous tap or anterior chamber paracentesis was performed in all patients. Bacteria were found in seven samples (40%). Gram positive organisms accounted for 85% of positive cultures. Amphotericin B was required in four patients, and systemic antibiotic therapy in ten patients. Corticosteroid treatment was administered secondarily in eight patients. DISCUSSION: In this retrospective series, epidemiological, clinical and microbiological data are consistent with those already published.

[Primitive aspergillosis of the posterior cerebral fossa in immunocompetent patient]. / Aspergillose primitive de la fosse cérébrale postérieure chez un patient immunocompétent.

Cerebral aspergillosis arises in the great majority of cases during an invasive aspergillosis with hematogene scattering from the lung hurts. The cerebral, not rare location is one of the worse criteria forecast during the invasive aspergillosis. We report the case of patient who was hospitalized in the neurosurgery department for syndrome of increased intracranial pressure, hemiparesis and cerebellar syndrome in febrile context. The radiological exploration objectified a collection of the posterior fossa. A stereotactic biopsy was performed. It collected fragments biopsy and pus. The pathological and microbiological analysis allowed the identification of Aspergillus fumigatus. The originality of this observation comes from the rare location in the posterior fossa of aspergillosis and because the patient is immunocompetent and no primary location is found. The patient presents however a viral hepatitis B of fortuitous discovery. He is put under treatment by amphotericin B. The evolution is marked by meningitis comment-diversion. Antibiotics are prescribed, and then the patient is operated for total ablation of the tumor. He dies following an osmolar coma associated with thrombopenia and a secondary renal insufficiency due to his treatment by the amphotericin B.

[Resistance to fluoroquinolone among Klebsiella spp strains producing extended-spectrum betalactamases isolated from urine]. / La résistance aux fluoroquinolones chez des souches de Klebsiella spp productrices de bêtalactamase à spectre étendu isolées dans les urines.

The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of resistance to fluoroquinolones in extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBLs) Klebsiella spp isolated from urines of consulting and hospitalized patients in Rabat Specialities Hospital. A retrospective survey was made over 3 years (2006-2008). Two hundred ant fifty three patients presented with confirmed urinary tractus infection (UTI). Klebsiella spp was the etiologic agent in 28% (72/253) of reported UTI. Among them, 86% of Klebsiella pneumoniae and 14% of Klebsiella oxytoca. The frequency of Klebsiella spp resistance to fluoroquinolones was 33% and to third generation cephalosporins was 35%. Thirteen Klebsiella spp strains were producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase witch corresponds to 18% of all the klebsiella. The extended-spectrum beta-lactamase strains with resistance to fluoroquinolones were 85% (11/13) or 15 % of all klebsiella (11/72). None of those strains was resistant to imipenem. In conclusions resistance of enterobacteries such as Klebsiella spp to fluoroquinolones is becoming worrying among consulting and hospitalized patients. Eleven strains multiresistant (ESBL + resistance to fluoroquinolones), isolated probably because of plasmids carrying genes of ESBL and fluoroquinolones resistances. This increasingly frequent resistance mechanism should lead to a more careful use of first line fluoroquinolones for UTI.

[Q fever: a rare cause of endocarditis]. / Fièvre Q: une cause rare d'endocardite A propos d'un cas.

Coxiella Burnetii endocarditis is very rare. It is the main complication of the chronic form of Q fever. Blood cultures are negative and clinical presentation very variable and diagnosis is essentially based on indirect immunofluorescence serum analysis. The authors report the case of a 19 year old patient with a history of rheumatic aortic regurgitation admitted for an episode of left ventricular failure in a context of long-term pyrexia without valvular vegetations or mutilation. The antiphase I Ig G antibody levels were significant. Treatment with doxycycline and fluoroquinolone was initiated. The clinical improvement was spectacular. Three months later, the patient underwent aortic valve replacement and histological examination of the valve showed subacute endocarditis on chronically fibrotic valvular disease. This is an interesting case by its rarity and its diagnostic and therapeutic problems.

[Blood viscosity is correlated with insulin resistance]. / La viscosité sanguine est corrélée à l'insulino-résistance.

The insulin resistance syndrome (or syndrome X) is a cluster of symptoms (dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance, overweight, hypertension) associated with a higher risk of atherosclerosis. It has been suggested that hemorheological abnormalities, often found in association with most of these symptoms, may be a part of this syndrome, and possibly play a role in the circulatory abnormalities. In 22 nondiabetic women (20-54 years) presenting a wide range of body mass index (from 20 to 48 kg/m2), insulin sensitivity was assessed with the minimal model procedure, over a 180 min intravenous glucose tolerance test with frequent sampling. The insulin sensitivity index SI (i.e. the slope of the dose-response relationship between insulin increased above baseline and glucose disposal) ranges between 0.1 and 20.1 x 10(-4) min-1/microU/ml) i.e all the range of insulin sensitivity. SI was negatively correlated with blood viscosity (r = -0.530 p < 0.02), body mass index (r = 0.563 p < 0.01) and baseline insulinemia (r = 0.489 p < 0.05). These correlations were independent of each other and were not explained by relationships between SI and fibrinogen or blood lipids. Thus, blood fluidity is correlated with insulin sensitivity when it is measured with an accurate technique, suggesting that blood hyperviscosity is a symptom of insulin resistance that might be involved in the cardiovascular risk of this syndrome.