[Prevalence of HBs antigen carriage in a population of national Gendarmerie recruits in Ivory Coast in 2008].

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of HBsAg carriage in Ivorian gendarmerie recruits in 2008. This prevalence was 15.6%.

[Characteristics of chronic renal failure in black adult patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine department of Treichville University Hospital].

Objective: To describe the epidemiological, clinical, biological aspects, treatment and outcome of chronic renal failure.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on medical data of 301 inpatients with chronic renal failure from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008 in the internal medicine department of Treichville university hospital.

Results: The hospital prevalence of chronic renal failure was 7.

[Current aspects of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis in adults infected with HIV in the internal medicine service of the University Hospital of Treichville Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire)].

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis (NMC) and reporting sociodemographic, clinical, paraclinical aspects and outcome of patients.

Methods: It was a retrospective study concerning 22 HIV positive patients hospitalized between 2006 to and 2009 in the internal medicine service of University Hospital of Treichville for NMC.

Results: The prevalence of NMC in patients infected with HIV was 0.

Outbreak of beriberi in a prison in Côte d'Ivoire.

Background: A beriberi outbreak occurred in the Maison d'Arrêt et de Correction d'Abidjan (MACA), a detention center in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, between October 2002 and April 2003.

Objective: A retrospective investigation was conducted to document the outbreak in April 2003.

Methods: A descriptive analysis and a case-control study were performed.

[Histoplasma capsulatum histoplasmosis: apropos of 1 case observed in the internal medicine department of the CHU of Treichville (Abidjan)].

The advent of AIDS has resulted in an increase in diseases which were previously rare. In HIV-infected subjects, histoplasmosis takes a disseminated and particularly severe form, with a fatal outcome in our country, the more so because the clinical presentation resembles tuberculosis and is generally treated as such. The authors report a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient dually-reactive to HIV-1 and HIV-2, in whom the clinical presentation was fever, mediastinal lymphadenopathy and pulmonary infiltrates.

[Pain during peritoneum pinching, a pathognomonic sign of peritoneal disease. Clinical research. Semiological value].

Pain induced by pinching the peritoneum betrays a pathology of that membrane. It is absent when the peritoneum is perfectly healthy. Pain is elicited by a special palpation technique.

[Stopping persistent hiccups in the adult by endoscopic maneuver].

Thirty-four patients with persistent hiccups (median duration 10 days) were treated by gentle endoscopic massage of the region of the cardia. Hiccups stopped in all cases. Its early recurrence in one patient only required a second massage, which was also effective.

[Chronic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection on the Ivory Coast. A series of 277 symptomatic patients].

Only a few reports have established the importance of chronic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection in Africa. The aim of this study was to ascertain the prevalence of chronic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection in a symptomatic population in Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire. The study included 277 consecutive patients referred for gastroscopy.