Publications by authors named "A Saibou"
Objective: The study's objective was to determine the CD4 count and laboratory abnormalities in adults infected with HIV at initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Togo.
Methods: A retrospective and descriptive study was made of all patients on HAART in 2009 in Togo.
Results: A total of 5106 patients were included with a median age of 35 years.
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- The study analyzed 93 thyroid cytology samples from patients at Charles Nicole Hospital to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of thyroid nodules.
- The average age of participants was 40, with a male-to-female ratio of 1:6, and cell samples were collected using fine needle aspiration.
- Results showed a low interpretability rate of 7.52%, with a sensitivity of 70% and a high specificity of 97.43% when compared to histopathological examination.
The Psychopharmacological Studies Group of Fann, Dakar, considered the cultural expression of mental illness as it would help for a new definition of the nosographic frames, and inside of them, the appreciation of symptoms. This new definition would be applied "universally" if it may be considered that some symptoms are "culture-free" and others deeply marked by the discourse held by the person or by his social group. The use of valuation scales for symptomatic change during a treatment (here anti-depressive one) become harder by the undifferenciation of these two types of symptoms.
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