[Visceral Comorbidities Associated With Gout: About 75 Patients Followed At Brazzaville University Teaching Hospital (Congo)].

Objective: To investigate visceral comorbidities observed during gout.

Patients And Method: A descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study of gout patients diagnosed according to the ACR 1977 criteria, followed between January 1, 2012 and January 31, 2017 in the Rheumatology Department of the Brazzaville University Teaching Hospital in Congo. Patients were assessed for visceral cardiovascular, renal, and cerebral comorbidities.

[Clinical management of patients and deceased during the Ebola outbreak from October to December 2003 in Republic of Congo].

Outbreaks of Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever (EVHF) have been reported since 2001 in the Cuvette Ouest department, a forested area located in the Western North of Congo. At the end of October 2003 a new alarm came from this department which was quickly confirmed as being an epidemic of EVHF. The outbreak response was organized by the ministry of health with the assistance of an international team under the aegis of WHO.