[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.

[Assessment of the cost of the curative treatment of myocardial infarction in the Abidjan Cardiology Institute].

We carried out an economical study on a period of four years from august 2001 to june 2005 in 100 patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted in the intensive care unit and in the medicine department of the Abidjan Cardiology institute. The aim of this study was to evaluate the total cost of an hospitalisation for myocardial infarction in a sub-saharan country. The average estimated cost was 944 481 F CFA (1439.

[Echocardiographic myocardial performance in the normal postpartum in black African women].

The authors have carried out a prospective ultrasound study of normal post-partum myocardial performance in black African women free from any systemic and/or cardiovascular disorder. The volume overload, reduction in ejection indices and increase in telesystolic constraint, which are significant essential changes observed immediately post-partum, return to normal values within two months. According to the authors, these disturbances reflect a transient change in myocardial function which expresses the potentially harmful effect of the natural changes during the normal post-partum phase.

[Etiological factors of deep vein thromboses in the limbs of Black African subjects].

Deep thrombosis of limbs are unknown in Africa South of the Sahara. Looking for their etiological factors, the authors reviewed 82 cases admitted with an undisputable diagnosis of thrombosis. They underline the coming in of the disease which appears to strike two targets populations female in strong genital activity and males between 40 and 60 years of age.

[Acute thrombosis of the brachial artery and beta-thalassemia-sickle cell anemia].

The authors report about one case of left branchial arterial thrombosis in a 6-year-old child with thalassemia-sickle cell disease. In their opinion, although this hemoglobinopathy usually causes microthrombosis, its existence at the same time as that of the brachial thrombosis does not seem to be a coincidence. The actual origin of this disease remains to be found, as well as the role that thrombocytosis may play.

[Chronic left parietal endocarditis. Clinical, paraclinical and peroperative study of 22 cases].

From 22 patients with left chronic parietal endocarditis (CPE), conducted an epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical and per-operative study. The CPE is frequently encountered in the Ivory Coast in Akan children living in forest areas in 81 p. cent of the cases.

Coronary heart disease in the diabetic African: frequency clinical and angiographic features.

The frequency and clinical and coronarographic features of coronary heart disease (CHD) in black African diabetic patients were assessed in a two-part study. The aim of part I was to determine the frequency of CHD in 50 diabetic patients selected by the following criteria: male, age between 40 and 60 years, diabetes history less than 20 years, no history of CHD and normal E.K.

[Anatomo-clinical forms of left endomyocardial fibrosis. Study of 22 surgically treated cases].

The authors studied 22 patients with operated left sided endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF). Twenty patients had pure left sided and 2 bilateral (mainly right sided) EMF. The mean age of the patients was 14 years (range 7-51 years).

Right ventricular dysfunction after endocardiectomy for right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis.

Early right ventricular failure following a large endocardiectomy in right endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is reported. This diagnosis was confirmed upon echocardiography by the presence of a dilated right ventricle, and hemodynamically (upon postoperative control catheterization) by the presence of right ventricular diastolic dysfunction. The role of the endocardiectomy and of the pericardium in the genesis of this ventricular dysfunction are discussed in the light of this case which was documented by a hemodynamic study and surgically confirmed.