Transatrial-transpulmonary correction of tetralogy of Fallot: experience of a developing country.

Introduction: Right ventricular dysfunction is a cause of morbidity and mortality after surgical correction of tetralogy of Fallot. The transatrial-transpulmonary approach allows preservation of right ventricular function.

Aim: To report the immediate and long-term results of surgical treatment of tetralogy of Fallot using the transatrial-transpulmonary approach.

[Infective endocarditis complicating patent ductus arteriosus: emergency surgical treatment of two cases].

Infective endocarditis is a rare complication of patent ductus arteriosus nowadays. About two patients, aged 7 and 5 years old, we diagnosed and treated a patent ductus arteriosus complicated with an infective vegetative endocarditis with a risk of pulmonary embolism. We report in this observation this clinical and surgical experience.

[Topographical and morphological study of the mandibular foramen in black Africans from the Ivory Coast].

Sixty one dry mandibles. have been studied to provide some anatomical informations on the position, shape and size of the mental foramen among adults Black Africans of Ivory Coast. According the results, in the male mandibles, the mental foramen lay 27,31 mm behind the symphyses , 74,75 mm forward the post border of the ramus, 14,89 mm above the lower border and 16,16 mm under the alveolar margin.

[Ameloblastoma of the maxillary sinus. Apropos of a case].

The ameloblastoma is benign odontogen tumour developed from epithelial remains of MALASSEZ. Because of the inclination to invade in an inexorable way all the surrounding tissues and of the faculty of recurrence after removal, one attributes him the qualifier of good-hearted tumour to local wickedness. The mandibulary localization is the most frequent.

[Experience with preperitoneal hernioplasty using Stoppa's procedures in the Ivory Coast].

Objective: The treatment of groin hernias with a high risk of recurrence often provides therapeutic difficulties in Africa for fear of using mesh due to the potential risk of sepsis. The aim of this retrospective study was to emphasize the simplicity and efficacy of Stoppa's technique.

Patients And Methods: From 1994 to 1999, 128 patients with 239 groin hernias underwent hernioplasty with Stoppa's technique.