[Percutaneous coronary intervention in the management of acute coronary syndromes in Ivory Coast: Challenges and outcomes].

Aim: Assess the challenges and outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the management of ACS at Abidjan Heart Institute.

Patients And Methods: Prospective survey carried out from April, 1st, 2010 to April, 29th, 2016. Whole patients aged 18-year-old, admitted at Abidjan Heart Institute for ACS, and who underwent PCI were included in the Registre prospectif des actes de cardiologie interventionnelle de l'institut de cardiologie d'Abidjan (REPACI).

[Prevalence and characteristics of metabolic syndrome among hypertensive patients in Abidjan].

Aim: Assess prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in black Africans hypertensive patients.

Population: Prospective survey from 3rd November 2014 to 12th June 2015, at Abidjan Heart Institute. Study was carried out among patients aged 18 years old, admitted to external consultation.

[Prevalence and characteristics of acute coronary syndromes in a sub-Saharan Africa population].

Aim: To assess prevalence, characteristics and management of acute coronary syndromes in sub-Saharan Africa population.

Patients And Methods: Prospective survey from January, 2010 to December, 2013, carried out among patients aged 18 years old, admitted to intensive care unit of Abidjan Heart Institute for acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Results: Four hundred and twenty-five (425) patients were enrolled in this study.

[Early detection of anthracyclines cardiotoxicity by tissue Doppler echocardiography about 45 cases at Abidjan institute of cardiology].

Objective: Evaluate the early anthracyclines cardiotoxicity.

Methods: It is a prospective study made on 10 months of period from October 2008 to July 2009 and on patients who contracted a solid canny tumor hospitalized or followed in their movement and who would receive chemotherapy with an anthracycline molecule. On this effect, we have used tissue Doppler of mitral ring to detect clinic infratoxicity.

[Unusual association of endomyocardial fibrosis and aberrant migration of Dracunculus medinensis in the pericardium].

We report one case of endomyocardial fibrosis with a relapsing pericarditis, associated with an aberrant migration of Dracunculus medinensis in the pericardium, in a 22-year-old patient from an endemic zone of bilharziasis and dracunculosis in Côte d'Ivoire. The evolution has been marked by the appearance of thrombus in the right atrium. The patient died on the 49th day of hospitalization following an refractory cardiac insufficiency.