[Couple life and management of HIV infection in the pneumology department of the Teaching hospital center of Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire].

Introduction: The life of a couple is a place of emotional support. It can allow the management of patients infected with HIV on antiretroviral therapy to be optimized.The objective of our study was to analyze the impact of married life on the therapeutic follow-up of patients living with HIV.

[Use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test in routine screening of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in an endemic area].

Background: Developed initially for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the Xpert MTB/RIF test has shown to be useful for the diagnosis of tuberculosis, especially among HIV-infected subjects. The objective of the study was to determine the contribution of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for routine pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis in an endemic area.

Methodology: We undertook a prospective study among patients presenting with cough and sputum.

Pharmaceutical interventions in the management of tuberculosis in a pneumophtisiology department, Ivory Coast.

Objectives: This study aims to analyze the profile and relevance of pharmaceutical interventions (PIs) in the management of tuberculosis (TB) at inpatient settings.

Patients And Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted from March to December 2014 within the inpatient unit of pneumophtisiology department, Ivory Coast. Information collected was based on the classification of drug-related problems (DRPs) and PIs outlined by the French Society of Clinical Pharmacy.

[Multidrug resistant tuberculosis among health personnel in Côte d'Ivoire].

Unlabelled: Multidrug resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) of health workers raises the question of hospital-borne transmission of infection.

Observations: We report 4 cases of MDR-TB confirmed at the health workers over a period of 8 years (January, 2005 to December 2012), in the 2 services of pulmonology from Abidjan to Côte d'Ivoire). It was about young grown-up patients (aged between 28 and 39 years), all HIV negatives, in a no-win situation of antituberculosis treatment (3 patients/4).

[Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Ivory Coast].

Introduction: The emergence of tuberculosis with ultraresistant bacilli (TB-UR or XDR-TB) came to increase the threat concerning the progress realized in tuberculosis control. This observation establishes the only case of XDR-TB documented and published since the beginning of pharmacoresistant tuberculosis management in Ivory Coast from 2000 till 2010. This case was diagnosed in 2005 at a HIV-negative 32-year-old woman, initially declared MDR-TB.

[Clinical manifestations in patients exposed to an environmental toxic accident (Abidjan, Ivory Coast 2006)].

Introduction: In 2006, 528 tons of petroleum toxic waste have been released in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) during a major environmental accident. This study was aimed to describe the clinical manifestations provoked by these toxic waste.

Methods: We have analysed the records of patients admitted to the university hospital of Cocody (Abidjan) following exposure to toxic waste.

Diuretic effects of aqueous extract of Ficus exasperata Vahl. leaves in rat.

Ficus exasperata is widely used in african pharmacopoeia against hypertension and edema. The hypotensive effects of aqueous extract of F. exasperata leaves are reduced in the presence of atropine and methylene blue.

[Evaluation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in Ivory Coast from 2008 to 2010].

This is a retrospective study conducted from January 2008 to December 2010 on sectional descriptive analysis of records of patients treated for MDR-TB and whose follow-up was in the thoracic department of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Cocody in Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire. We selected eight patients who met the inclusion criteria of 21 MDR-TB patients registered during the study period. The average age was 29.

[Correlation of the manifestations of tuberculosis and the degree of immunosuppression in patients with HIV].

Context: Correlation of the manifestations of tuberculosis and the degree of immunosuppression in patients with HIV.

Background: The advent of HIV has contributed to the increase in the number of people with tuberculosis. The clinical and paraclinical of TB/HIV co-infected are polymorphic and function of immune status.

[Pancytopenia: a severe complication of miliary tuberculosis].

Objective: To analyze the epidemiology, clinical features and outcome of patients with hematologic abnormalities in miliary tuberculosis.

Methods: This was a retrospective study in the pneumology department of the University hospital in Abidjan (RCI), between January 2000 and December 2009. We analyzed the medical records of patients with pancytopenia occurring in the context of miliary tuberculosis.

[Tuberculosis in the elderly: Epidemiology and outcomes of ambulatory followed-up in Abidjan].

Background: Very few works approach elderly's tuberculosis (TB) in developing countries. The aim of this study is to present elderly's TB epidemiology and the outcomes of the ambulatory follow-up of the tuberculous patients aged more than 65years old (TBE) compared to the TB among patients less than 65years old (TBY).

Methods: Our study is retrospective covering period of January 1999 to June 2006 activities of Adjamé's antituberculous center.

[Dynamic of respiratory pathology in a service of pneumology in black Africa in the context of HIV infection from 1998 to 2007].

Introduction: The pneumology in developing countries is practiced in a singular context: population mostly younger, endemic tuberculosis, high prevalence of HIV infection and growing pollution.

Objective: The aim of this study is to present respiratory pathology evolution in hospitalization of pneumology department in black Africa.

Methodology: Our study is retrospective and descriptive.

[Non-tuberculous pleural infections versus tuberculous pleural infections].

Introduction: In countries where tuberculosis is endemic, the main differential diagnosis for pleural infection by common bacteria is pleural tuberculosis.

Objective: The purpose of our study was to determine the differences between pleural infection by common bacteria and that caused by pleural tuberculosis.

Methodology: Our study was a retrospective analysis and compared the characteristics of confirmed pleural infection by common bacteria (PIB) and that due to pleural tuberculosis (PT).

[Clinical manifestations related to kitchen biomass smoke in African women].

Context: Fires of wood and charcoal play an essential part in the cooking of food in Africa. These fires emit thick smoke that has definite health consequences.

Objectives: To determine the clinical manifestations related to kitchen smoke and to identify the type of fire most often incriminated.

[Contribution of the surgical treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis during medical follow-up (experience of the pneumology department of the CHU of Cocody, in connection with five observations)].

Multidrug resistance is defined as a resistance to two major antituberculosis drugs, which are isoniazid and rifampicin. The aim of the study was to specify the place of the thoracic surgery during the medical follow-up of the TB-MDR. Five files were kept over six years during this retrospective study.

[Antituberculous retreatement in case of failure to category I regimen].

Introduction: In Côte d'Ivoire, since April 2002, the antituberculous regime for category I patients (ARC-I) passed from 2RHZ/4RH to 2RHZE/4RH, without modification of the antituberculous regime for category II (ARC-II) for treatment of cases of the failures to respond to treatment with ARC-I (FARC-I) and patients with a relapse of tuberculosis (TR). The objective of this study was to determine the outcome of patients treated by ARC-II (2RHZES/1RHZE/5RHE).

Methodology: This study was retrospective and compared outcomes during patient follow-up under ARC-II between 1999-2000 (period 1=267 cases) and 2004-2005 (period 2=434 cases).

[Lyell's syndrome occurring in three HIV-positive patients undergoing anti-tuberculous therapy].

We describe three cases of Lyell syndrome - toxic epidermal necrolysis - occurring in patients under the respiratory service of CHU de Cocody in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, who were undergoing anti-tuberculous (TB) chemotherapy. All three were adult males who were HIV-positive, but none of them were receiving anti-retroviral treatment. They were on standard anti-TB treatment; rifampicin, isoniazid, pyazinamide and ethambutol.

[Smoking and educational status in Africans].

Introduction: Tobacco smoking is a scourge that continues to increase in developing countries despite its known consequences. Is the population of the Ivory Coast sufficiently informed about the consequences of smoking? For this reason, we decided to evaluate the knowledge of the effects of smoking among the people of Abidjan.

Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of the effects of smoking in the population of Abidjan.

[Remarkable evolution of hepatic, pleural and pulmonary amoebiasis: a case report].

Entamoeba histolytica, is a human pathogen which is endemic in tropical areas. The most common extra-intestinal locations for disease after the liver are pleural and pulmonary. Although the outcome of pleural and pulmonary amoebiasis is generally favourable, it is important to note that a significant proportion of patients do develop pleural and pulmonary after-effects.

[Removal of an intratracheobronchial foreign body opaque to X-rays in a child within a context of inadequate medical technical equipment].

Intratracheobronchial foreign bodies are common accidents in children. In developed countries, the removal of these intratracheobronchial foreign bodies is performed with flexible or rigid fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Resorting to surgery is rare.

[Smoking in school: Cocody, Abidjan].

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study on smoking in school was conducted in public, private, and international secondary schools in Cocody, Abidjan, between March 18 and May 4, 2003. Data were collected with an anonymous individual questionnaire from 1000 pupils.

Results: Pupils smoked for the first time at an early age, 13.

[Three cases of visceral leishmaniasis in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire].

Three cases of visceral leishmaniasis were observed in a cohort of 528 patients admitted to the Department of Pulmonary Disease of the Cocody University Hospital Center in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire from June 2001 to May 2002. All three patients including 2 women and 1 man were young Ivorians. Assessment of predisposing factors demonstrated that all three patients had diminished immune systems resulting from long-term (2-month) steroid therapy in one patient and AIDS with low rates of CD4 T cells around 100 cells/microl in 2 patients.