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[Early indicators of prolonged hospitalization of the elderly: pilot study at Strasbourg University Hospital]Pierre Olivier Lang
Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpital des Trois Chêne, Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Thonex Geneve, Suisse
Presse Med 36:389-98. 2007..The aim of this study was to identify early indicators of prolonged hospital stays by elderly patients...- Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in aging and older adults: comprehensive analysis of the evidencePierre Olivier Lang
Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, University Hospitals and Medical School of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Clin Interv Aging 7:55-64. 2012..Furthermore, consideration is given to strategies that should be adopted in order to optimize influenza vaccine effectiveness in the face of immune exhaustion... - Immunosenescence and herd immunity: with an ever-increasing aging population do we need to rethink vaccine schedules?Pierre Olivier Lang
Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Medical School and University Hospitals of Geneva, Hospital of Trois Chêne, Chemin du Pont Bochet 3, CH 1226 Thonex Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Expert Rev Vaccines 11:167-76. 2012.... - [STOPP-START: adaptation of a French language screening tool for detecting inappropriate prescriptions in older people]Pierre Olivier Lang
Service de Geriatrie, Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpitaux universitaires et faculté de médecine de Genève, Suisse
Can J Public Health 100:426-31. 2009..An adaptation of the tool into French language is presented here... - Potentially inappropriate prescribing including under-use amongst older patients with cognitive or psychiatric co-morbiditiesPierre Olivier Lang
Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Medical School and University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Age Ageing 39:373-81. 2010..the study aimed to determine the prevalence of and risk factors for inappropriate prescribing (IP) and prescribing omission (PO) in elderly with mental co-morbidities... - [What do we learn from the SAFEs cohort to fit hospital care models for aged inpatient?]Pierre Olivier Lang
Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, hôpital des Trois Chêne, Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, 1226 Genève, Suisse
Presse Med 39:1132-42. 2010..Such health policy will have to target the care networks as a whole and lead to specific and adequate financing assistances... - Vaccine effectiveness in older individuals: what has been learned from the influenza-vaccine experiencePierre Olivier Lang
Translational Medicine Group, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
Ageing Res Rev 10:389-95. 2011..Finally this review concludes with possible strategies to improve the ability of the senescent immune system to respond to vaccination... - [Vaccination: a programme for the whole life]Pierre Olivier Lang
Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpital des Trois Chêne, HUG
Rev Med Suisse 6:2118-24. 2010.... - Immunosenescence: Implications for vaccination programmes in adultsPierre Olivier Lang
Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Medical School and University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Maturitas 68:322-30. 2011.... - [Adverse effects of the herd immunity or when childhood vaccination becomes deleterious for the epidemiology of infectious diseases in adults]Pierre Olivier Lang
Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpital des Trois Chêne, Thonex Geneve, Suisse
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil 9:11-9. 2011.... - Real time-PCR assay estimating the naive T-cell pool in whole blood and dried blood spot samples: pilot study in young adultsP O Lang
Translational Medicine Research Group, Cranfield Health, Cranfield University, Cranfield, England, United Kingdom
J Immunol Methods 369:133-40. 2011..In this pilot study, we have compared the sj-TREC ratio we obtained with this novel method in whole blood and in DBS samples of 10 healthy volunteers with those obtained with the technique of reference and found that they are comparable... - [Frailty: learnings from the SAFEs cohort study and future perspectives for the research]Pierre Olivier Lang
Departement de Medecine Interne, réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpitaux universitaires et faculté de médecine de Genève, Suisse
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil 9:135-49. 2011..Finally we give rise to the imperative necessity to detect frailty at a preclinical stage with the help of biological and more particularly inflammatory markers... - Early markers of prolonged hospital stay in demented inpatients: a multicentre and prospective studyP O Lang
Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Medical School and University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
J Nutr Health Aging 14:141-7. 2010..Dementia is a serious, chronic, and costly public health problem. Prior studies have described dementia as increasing length of hospital stay, but so far no explanations have been proposed... - Stop shingles in its tracksPierre Olivier Lang
University Hospitals and Medical School of Geneva, Thonex Geneva, Switzerland
J Fam Pract 58:531-4. 2009..Do not prescribe tricyclic antidepressants or corticosteroids in the acute phase of HZ... - Frailty syndrome: a transitional state in a dynamic processPierre Olivier Lang
Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Medical School and University Hospitals of Geneva, Hospital of Trois Chêne, Geneva, Switzerland
Gerontology 55:539-49. 2009..We therefore provide an update of the physiopathology and clinical and biological characteristics of the frailty process and speculate on possible preventative approaches... - Loss of independence in Katz's ADL ability in connection with an acute hospitalization: early clinical markers in French older peoplePierre Olivier Lang
Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Hospital of Trois Chêne, University Hospitals of Geneva, Chemin du Pont Bochet 3, Thonex Geneve, 1226 Geneva, Switzerland
Eur J Epidemiol 22:621-30. 2007..The preservation of autonomy and the ability of elderly to carry out the basic activities of daily living, beyond the therapeutic care of any pathologies, appears as one of the main objectives of care during hospitalization... - [Launois-Bensaude syndrome (Madelung's disease)]Pierre-Olivier Lang
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Presse Med 37:732-3. 2008 - [Serotonin syndrome as a result of escitalopram and cyclosporin combination in an 84-year-old woman]P O Lang
Service de médecine interne et réadaptation, Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpital des Trois Chêne, Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, 3, chemin du Pont Bochet, 1226 Thonex, Suisse
Rev Med Interne 29:583-6. 2008..After the discontinuation of escitalopram, the patient's condition improved rapidly. This report is a reminder of the clinical and pharmacological features of the serotonin syndrome from a recent literature review... - [Non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis revealed by anterograde amnesia]Pierre Olivier Lang
Service de médecine interne et réadaptation, Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, hôpital des Trois Chêne, 3 chemin du Pont Bochet, CH 1226 Thônex Genève, Suisse
Presse Med 37:775-82. 2008..Limbic encephalitis is a syndrome, most commonly paraneoplastic, related to an often undiagnosed cancer of unpredictable prognosis. Neurological symptoms are progressive for a few weeks before stabilizing... - [Disabled elderly people waiting for institutionalization to a hospital ward: prospective study in the administrative district of Strasbourg (France)]P O Lang
Service de médecine interne et réadaptation, Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpital des Trois Chêne, Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, 3, chemin du Pont Bochet, 1226 Thônex Genève, Switzerland
Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 56:87-95. 2008..Our aim was to estimate the number of non-satisfied instutionalization requests for inpatients and to describe the strategies elaborated to compensate for the waiting time... - [Herpes zoster in old adults]Pierre Olivier Lang
Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, Faculté de médecine et Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, CH 1226 Thônex Genève, Suisse
Presse Med 38:571-83. 2009..A recent advance in primary prevention is approval of a vaccine (Zostavax) to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in subjects 60 years or older... - [Herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia in older adults]P O Lang
Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpital des Trois Chêne, Ch Pont Bochet 3, 1226 Thonex
Rev Med Suisse 4:2398-402, 2404. 2008..However, their application in old, frail, co-morbid and often poly-medicated patients have to be carefully considered as their use may be contraindicated. A specific vaccine is enable to reduce herpes zoster-related morbidity... - You Missed the 5th EUGMS Congress? All the Things Which You Would Have Been Able to Learn!P O Lang
P O Lang, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Hopital des Trois Chene Chemin du Pont Bochet, 3 CH 1226 Thonex Geneva, Switzerland, Tel 41 22 305 63 20, Fax 41 22 305 61 15, E mail
J Nutr Health Aging 13:396-400. 2009..Successful interventions against frailty include increasing muscle strength through training and individualized recommendations made on the basis of an extensive geriatric assessment... - Rapid cognitive decline, one-year institutional admission and one-year mortality: analysis of the ability to predict and inter-tool agreement of four validated clinical frailty indexes in the SAFEs cohortM Drame
University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, Faculty of Medicine, E A 3797, Reims, F 51092, France
J Nutr Health Aging 15:699-705. 2011.... - Tracing thymic output in older individualsW A Mitchell
Department of Immunology, Imperial College, London Translational Medicine Group, Cranfield University, Beds, UK
Clin Exp Immunol 161:497-503. 2010..Our results provide information about the potential end-point for thymic output and suggest that sjTREC analysis may be a biomarker of effective ageing... - [Delirium in old age. Difficulties in diagnosis]M Zarate-Lagunes
Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie, hôpital des Trois Chêne, Ch Pont Bochet 3, 1226 Thonex
Rev Med Suisse 4:2392-7. 2008..Identification and treatment of the underlying cause of delirium is essential with a focus on non pharmacological approach. Antipsychotic agents are reserved for severe forms and where non pharmacological intervention fracases... - Incidence and main factors associated with early unplanned hospital readmission among French medical inpatients aged 75 and over admitted through emergency unitsIsabelle Lanièce
Clinic of Geriatric Medicine, Hopital Michallon, University Hospital of Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Age Ageing 37:416-22. 2008..While previous studies have identified risk factors of early readmission, geriatric syndromes, as markers of frailty have not been assessed as potential predictors...