[Postpartum thyroiditis and Basedow disease].

Background: The postpartum period is characterized by a rebound in autoimmunity secondary to immune tolerance induced by pregnancy, creating favorable conditions for flare up of Graves' disease or autoimmune thyroiditis. Postpartum thyroiditis is a recognized clinical entity.

Case Report: Six years after onset of Graves' disease treated with antithyroid drugs, a 25-year-old woman had a high serum level of antithyroperoxidase antibodies a few months before she became pregnant.

[Tropical ataxia. Clinical and nutritional study].

The authors report on 21 cases of tropical neuropathy with simple or prevailing ataxia. They explicit the semiologic characteristics of this pattern. The difficulties of the discriminating diagnostic in the tropics are mentioned.

[Nutritional status and food consumption in the north of the Ivory Coast].

Malnutrition is frequent in the north of Ivory Coast, catching 63,7% of the children admitted in the Korhogo hospital, 39% of the children in the out-patients services, 25% of the children living in villages and 6,9% of the admitted adults. We note animal protein and lipid deficiencies mainly. Syndrome of protein deficiency is very well known, but lipid deficiency is less; its responsibility in peripheral neuropathy, as hypothesis, is recalled.