[Evaluation of "SD Bioline Malaria Antigen pf (HRP2)" test in malaria diagnosis in child at the Yopougon teaching hospital (Côte d'Ivoire)].

Evaluation of "SD Bioline Malaria Antigen (HRP2)" test for the confirmation of children's malaria in a hospital setting. In the present study, a Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) for the diagnosis of malaria has been compared to the thick smear in 243 children suspected with malaria in Youpogon's University Hospital pediatrics' consultation and emergency room from the 1 of February to November 11, 2016. Conformity between the two exams was observed in 90.

[Growth in steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome in Cote d'Ivoire].

We realized one of the first observational studies in sub-Saharan Africa whose aim was to analyze the growth in steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome. This was a retrospective study, involving 30 children followed for nephrotic syndrome in pediatric nephrology unit of the University Hospital of Yopougon (Abidjan) from 28.02.

Acute peritoneal dialysis in African pediatric area experience of pediatric nephrology unit of Yopougon University Hospital (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire).

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a diagnostic emergency threatening patients in a major way. Pediatric renal extra purification methods are limited in African countries due to the nonavailability of resources. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) seems to be the modality that is the most practiced for children with acute renal failure (ARF).

[Is the mother a risk factor for transmission of Helicobacter pylori infection in children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years in Côte d'Ivoire?].

Objectives: The goals of this study were to determine the prevalence of H. pylori antibodies in children, to establish the relationship between child and mother serostatus, and to identify potential risk factors for contamination.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted over a 3-month period.

[Cryptococcal meningitis in two HIV-negative children].

Cryptococcal meningitidis is rare, occurring particularly in adults infected with the HIV virus. The authors report the cases of 2 immunocompetent girls who were 3 and 13 years old. The authors describe the risk factors, the clinical symptoms, and the biological characteristics of the cerebrospinal fluid.

[Pediatric nephrology in developing countries].

Pediatric nephrology is not a priority medicine in developing countries, but it should improve along with the development of both preventive and curative simple measures since the mortality rate is still important. This can be applied to the management of urinary tract infection, acute nephritis and some other cases of acute renal failure. The identification and management of chronic kidney diseases is mainly based on blood pressure measurement, proteinuria screening and plasma creatinine assessment.

[Beneficial effect of using ACT for treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria on prevention of severe malarial anemia in children].

Severe malaria is a major cause of child morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. A frequent major complication of malarial infection is anemia. The WHO lists severe anemia as one of the 15 criteria for diagnosis of complicated malaria.

[Generalized tetanus with otitic portal of entry after using intra-auricular traditional remedies in a 2 old child].

A case of tetanus with uncommon way of contamination was found in the paediatric department of the Yopougon teaching hospital in Côte d'Ivoire. A two-year-old child, without vaccination against tetanus and suffering from a chronic otitis presented a generalized tetanus, after the use of traditional local remedies in his ear. Through this observation, the authors want to make population aware of the detrimental effects of traditional local auricular remedies and want to advise all physicians to make a serotherapy and/or a vaccination against tetanus to all children with chronic otitis in our area.

[Analysis of the diagnostic criteria used in childhood tuberculosis in a Cote d'Ivoire hospital].

Based on a retrospective study the authors analyzed the diagnostic criteria used in pediatric department in Yopougon CHU (teaching hospital), from January 1996 to December 2002. Fifty children, aged of 1 month to 15 years, have been studied. The tuberculosis contact was found in 18%.

[Misunderstood neurological side effects of amodiaquine: apropos of 35 cases in children at Central University Hospital of Yopougon at Abidjan, Côte d' Ivoire].

The case reports about the neurological sides effects of amodiaquine are scare, and just a few of them concerned the children. But more and more, amodiaquine is prescribed because of the resistance of Plasmodium in front of chloroquine. And, in the endemic area of malaria, there are more and more neurological side effects with amodiaquine among the children.

[Sub-cutaneous location of Burkitt's lymphoma. Apropos of 1 case at Yopougon Central University Hospital, Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)].

Burkitt Lymphoma is the most frequent lymphoma of childhood in West Africa. The main localisations are facial and abdominal. In this study, the authors describe the case of a sub-cutaneous localisation of a Burkitt to a seven years old boy.

[Inquiry of knowledge, attitudes and practice of accidental acute poisoning in children of Yopougon (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire].

Child poisoning represent a public health problem in Africa and their particularities are linked to the way of life the population. We have made in the course of March 1999 an inquiry on 55 mothers at Yopougon in Abidjan. This inquiry was focused on their knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation acute poisoning children.

[Alkaptonuria: a rare cause of urine discoloration. Report of a case in a newborn].

Unlabelled: Alcaptonuria is a rare hereditary disease, characterized by an abnormal blackish coloration of the urine and dark pigmentation of the conjunctive tissue which is due to a deficiency in homogentisate 1,2-dioxygenase (HGO), a phenylalanine catabolizing enzyme. An accumulation of homogentisate (HGA) is then formed, and is responsible for the dark coloration which only occurs after the urine has been exposed to air over a period of time. Signs of this disorder therefore frequently remain unnoticed during childhood, because the urine requires a relatively long exposure to air before it changes color.

[Acute poisoning in pediatrics at the CHU of Yopougon, Côte d'Ivoire].

From 1st January 1995 to 31st December 1996, 92 children from 1 month to 15 years old admitted for poisoning were studied. The purpose of this work was to describe the characteristics of child intoxication in our area; 64% were under 5 five years. Petroleum was the main poison (25/92).