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.

Bilateral semilunar perihilar opacities in a patient with pulmonary hypertension.

Pulmonary arterial aneurysm is a rare entity with a high mortality if left untreated. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is an important cause of PAAs although other infective and auto-immune causes must be excluded when an aneurysm is identified.

[The chronic constrictive pericarditis, a real calcified gangue realizing a mid-ventricular bottleneck: A case report].

A 30-year-old woman consulted for a predominantly right-sided global heart failure chart that had been evolving for about 3 months. Its antecedents include a concept of poorly treated pleuropulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 8 years. Lateral chest X-ray, transthoracic echocardiography and thoracic CT showed ventricular ring calcification with mid-ventricular compression with apical ballooning.

Belhassen anterior fascicular ventricular tachycardia: a case in a black African.

Belhassen ventricular tachycardia can be characterized by a complete right branch block and a right axial deviation. This type, although rare, must be recognized to properly treat the patient, as verapamil treatment is effective.

[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.

Optimizing the management of acute coronary syndromes in sub-Saharan Africa: A statement from the AFRICARDIO 2015 Consensus Team.

Background: Whereas the coronary artery disease death rate has declined in high-income countries, the incidence of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, where their management remains a challenge.

Aim: To propose a consensus statement to optimize management of ACS in sub-Saharan Africa on the basis of realistic considerations.

Methods: The AFRICARDIO-2 conference (Yamoussoukro, May 2015) reviewed the ongoing features of ACS in 10 sub-Saharan countries (Benin, Burkina-Faso, Congo-Brazzaville, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo), and analysed whether improvements in strategies and policies may be expected using readily available healthcare facilities.

[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.

[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.

Predictors of attempted weight loss and physician advice for weight loss in a group of overweight and obese patients in Togo.

Despite a worldwide increase in obesity, little is known about obesity in Africa and factors related to attempting weight loss (AWL) in high-risk populations. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of obesity among patients in a Togolese cardiology clinic and determine predictors of reporting AWL and physician advice for weight loss. We recruited French-speaking men and women, aged > or = 18 years from this academic cardiology clinic to complete a questionnaire and anthropometric measurements.

[Prevalence and determinants of hypertension in Lomé (Togo): results of a screening in May 2011].

Background: The prevalence of hypertension in the Sub-Saharan Africa region is increasing as a manifestation of the epidemiological transition, and this fact will oblige these countries to mobilize significant resources. World Bank estimates cheaper to prevent cardiovascular disease than to treat people once these diseases are established suggesting the need to know the prevalence of hypertension in order to allow prevention programs in our population. However, data in Togolese populations are rare.

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.

[Evolution of cardiovascular diseases' admissions in cardiology departments of Lomé hospitals: a cross-sectional study on 7959 patients from June 2004 to May 2009].

Background: To determine the frequency of cardiovascular diseases, their risk factors as well as their evolution in two cardiology departments of Lomé.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among patients attending two cardiology departments of Lomé, from June 2004 to May 2009, who had a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease.

Results: A total of 7959 patients were included.

[Compliance to treatment in heart failure patients in Lomé].

Background: The incidence and prevalence rates of the heart failure in the world approach epidemic proportions. The evaluation of the follow-up of the treatment of heart failure can allow the setting up of strategies to reduce the frequency of decompensations and improve the quality of life of these patients.

Objectives: To estimate the compliance to treatment and factors liable to influence it in Togolese patients suffering from heart failure.