Epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary specificities of the association between venous thromboembolic event and cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: Case of Togo.

Background: Our study aimed to describe the clinical, paraclinical, therapeutic and outcomes of patients with venous thromboembolic event (VTE) associated with cancer in the context of limited resources.

Materials And Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study over a period of six years from March 1, 2016 to March 31, 2022, in the cardiology department and the oncology unit of the Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital of Lome. Our study examined medical records of patients who were at least 18 years old and had venous thromboembolic disease and cancer that was histologically confirmed.

[Évaluation de la qualité de vie et description des facteurs associés, chez les patients en insuffisance cardiaque chronique vivant dans un pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest à faible revenu].

Objective: To assess the quality of life (QOL) and describe associated factors in patients with chronic heart failure (HF) living in a low-income population in West Africa.

Methods: This is was a cross-sectional study conducted from January 2017 to June 2018, in the department of cardiology of the University Teaching Hospital (CHU-Campus) in Lomé (Togo). Enrolled patients had stable chronic HF and have been hospitalized in the past 6 months; QOL was assessed using the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire (MLHFQ).

[Prevalence and determinants of the increased carotid intima-media thickness in a population of 1203 black African hypertensive].

Objectives: To evaluate the prevalence and determinants of increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in a population of black hypertensive patients and it influence of on the assessment of their overall cardiovascular risk.

Patients And Methods: This was a 16-month, cross-sectional study conducted in the outpatient unit of the cardiology department of the Campus teaching hospital of Lome, and included 1203 hypertensive patients, both sexes, aged 35 years and more. Each patient benefited from a carotid IMT measure.

[Thrombolysis in pulmonary embolism with high mortality risk: Experience of a cardiology department in sub-Saharan Africa].

Introduction: High-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) accounts for 5% of total acute PE and is a life-threatening emergency requiring immediate therapeutic management by fibrinolysis. The objective of this work is to describe the experience of thrombolysis in high-risk PE in a cardiology department in Togo.

Patients And Methods: This is an analytical and descriptive study carried out in the cardiology department of the Campus teaching hospital of Lomé over a period of 5 years (August 2012 to July 2017) concerning patients hospitalized for high-risk mortality PE and having undergone streptokinase thrombolysis.

Acute coronary syndromes: epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic characteristics at the Campus teaching hospital of Lome, Togo.

Introduction: The aim of this work was to describe the epidemiological, clinical, and therapeutic characteristics of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the cardiology department of Lome Campus University Hospital in Togo.

Methodology: We conducted a prospective study that consistently included patients hospitalized from 2014 to 2017 for ACS, based on clinical, electrocardiographic, and laboratory findings.

Results: Of 1914 patients admitted to the department during the study period, 67 were admitted for ACS, for a 3.

[Pulmonary embolism at the University Hospital Campus of Lome (Togo): a retrospective study about 51 cases].

Introduction: This study provides an analysis of the evolutionary, clinical and epidemiological aspects of pulmonary embolism at the University Hospital Campus of Lome.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective, analytic and descriptive study over a period of 39 months (November 1 , 2011- January 31, 2015). All the medical records of patients hospitalized for PE in the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Campus were analyzed.

[Effusive pericarditis: clinical and etiological aspects in Lomé].

Objective: to describe the course and the etiologic, prognostic, and therapeutic aspects of effusive pericarditis (EP) in Togo. MATERIAL ANDMETHODS: Prospective and longitudinal study conducted at the cardiology department of Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital of Lome from February 1, 2011, to January 31, 2014, of patients hospitalized for EP, confirmed by Doppler echocardiography.

Results: The study included 38 patients.

[Vascular age and cardiovascular risk in patients suffering from stroke].

Aims: To determine the vascular age of patients suffering from stroke and their cardiovascular risk at 10 years and to compare their vascular age to their real age.

Material And Methods: It was about a descriptive and retrospective study carried up from 1st January 2012 to 31st December 2013 at the neurologic clinic of the University teaching hospital Sylvanus Olympio of Lome from patients' files with a confirmed diagnostic of stroke according to the clinical examination and the scanner data.

Results: One hundred and ninety-four patients were related to our study.

[Knowledge, attitudes and practices related to venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in hospitalists in Lome (Togo)].

The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and practices related to the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in medical settings in Lome (Togo). Hospitalists in Lome are relatively well aware of the risk of VTE in patients. They report risk factors for VTE as the primary indications for thromboprophylaxis.

[Hypertension and pregnancy in Lome (sub-Saharan Africa): epidemiology, diagnosis and risk factors].

Aim: Describe the epidemiology, diagnosis and risk factors of hypertension in pregnant women in Lome.

Methods: It was a prospective, descriptive and comparative study during 12 months (October 1st, 2011 to September 31st, 2012) on 200 cases of hypertension among 1620 pregnant women, in the department of gynecology and obstetrics at the Tokoin teaching hospital of Lome.

Results: We had 200 cases of hypertension on 1620 pregnant women.

[Young heart failure: epidemiological, clinical and etiological aspects in the teaching hospital Sylvanus Olympio of Lomé].

Aims: The aim of the study was to analyze the epidemiologic, clinical and etiologic aspects of heart failures of the young age to 18 to 45 years.

Patients And Method: It consisted of a cross-sectional study realized in hospitalization in the service of cardiologic of Teaching Hospital Sylvanus Olympio of Lomé on 35 months (January 2009 to November 2012). The completion of a Doppler echocardiography was necessary to include the patients in the study.

Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in an urban area of Togo: a WHO STEPS-wise approach in Lome, Togo.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in the general adult population of Lome.

Methods: A cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Lome from October 2009 to January 2010, which focused on hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in 2 000 subjects 18 years and older. The World Health Organisation's STEPS-wise approach on non-communicable diseases was used.

[A cause of dilated cardiomyopathy in a child: primary carnitine deficiency].

Aim: The aim of this case report was to show the importance to research metabolic etiology, especially a carnitine deficiency in dilated cardiomyopathy of children.

Case Report: A three years old Togolese child presented muscular hypotonia, dyspnea. Examination showed left galop murmur and systolic murmur 2/6.