Epidemiology of intussusception among infants in Togo, 2015-2018.

Introduction: intussusception is the leading cause of bowel obstruction in infants and young children. We describe the epidemiology and diagnostic and treatment characteristics of intussusception among Togolese infants over a 4-year period.

Methods: we implemented active surveillance among infants younger than 1 year of age admitted with intussusception from 2015 to 2018 at Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital and in 2018 at Campus Teaching Hospital.

Cardiac injury in child managed successfully in underprivileged hospital of Africa.

Cardiac injuries are rare and the associated mortality is high. Their prognosis can be ameliorated by early diagnosis and management in a specialized hospital with appropriate resuscitation care. This report describes a case of cardiac penetrating injury in a child managed successfully in an underprivileged hospital of Africa.

[The circumcision in newborn and infant in the operating room of the Lomé Teaching Hospital: technique using Gomco clamp versus technique using only the grips].

Objectives: To describe the various techniques used for the circumcision in newborns and infants in the operating room of the Lomé Teaching Hospital (Togo) and to compare their results.

Patients And Methods: It is about a prospective study carried out in the operating room of the Lomé Teaching Hospital from June 15th, 2007 to December 15th, 2008 (18 months). It concerned newborns and infants circumcised according to two techniques: the technique using grips only (group A: n=138; 69%) and the technique using Gomco clamp (group B: n=62; 31%).

[The circumcision: why and how is it practiced in the newborn and the infant in the Lomé teaching hospital?].

Objective: To identify the different indications, to analyze the conditions of realization of the circumcisions and to evaluate the results.

Patients And Method: It is about a prospective survey study done in the operative room of the Tokoin teaching hospital (Lomé) and on a period of 12 months (15th June 2007 to 15th June 2008). It was about newborns and infants circumcised in the operative block by a pediatric surgeon.