How to Diagnose Early 5-Azacytidine-Induced Pneumonitis: A Case Report.

Interstitial pneumonitis is a classical complication of many drugs. Pulmonary toxicity due to 5-azacytidine, a deoxyribonucleic acid methyltransferase inhibitor and cytotoxic drug, has rarely been reported. We report a 67-year-old female myelodysplastic syndrome patient treated with 5-azacytidine at the conventional dosage of 75 mg/m for 7 days.

Implementation of a national external quality assessment program for medical laboratories in Burkina Faso: challenges, lessons learned, and perspectives.

Objectives: The National External Quality Assessment (NEQA) program of Burkina Faso is a proficiency testing program mandatory for all laboratories in the country since 2006. The program runs two cycles per year and covers all areas of laboratories.

Methods: All panels were validated by the expert committee before dispatch under optimal storage and transport conditions to participating laboratories along with report forms.

[National External Quality Assessment for medical biology laboratories in Burkina Faso: an overview of three years of activity].

We report results of the National External Quality Assessment for (NEQA) laboratories in Burkina Faso, a country with limited resources located in West Africa whose epidemiology is dominated by infectious diseases. The national laboratory network consists of 160 laboratories including 40 private. The Government of Burkina Faso has adopted a national laboratory policy.

[Arthropathic and degenerative pathology in rheumatology patients in Burkina Faso].

Objective: The purpose of this report is to describe epidemiologic features of arthrosic and degenerative disorders observed during the first two years of rheumatologic practice in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Patients And Methods: The files of all patients examined between March 2006 to February 2008 were reviewed. All patients presenting arthrosic or degenerative disorders were included.

[Rheumatologic diseases and haemoglobinopathies in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)].

The purpose of this study is the prevalence of the rheumatologic complications in the sickle cell disease and the associations between haemoglobinopathies and rheumatologic affections. It is a retrospective study from 29 February 2006 to 28 March 2008 conducted in the Internal Department of the University Hospital Yalgado-Ouédraogo. All patients received in the period of study and having an electrophoresis of haemoglobin realized in alkaline pH were included.