Late mortality after cardiac interventions over 10-year period in two Cameroonian government-owned hospitals.

Background: Cardiac surgery is a growing activity in Sub-Saharan Africa, however, data related to long-term mortality are scarce. We aimed to analyze outcome data of cardiac interventions in two hospitals in Cameroon over 10 years' period.

Methods: we conducted a retrospective analytical and descriptive study at the Douala General Hospital and Yaoundé General Hospital.

Application of the Canadian C-Spine rule and nexus low criteria and results of cervical spine radiography in emergency condition.

Introduction: The Canadian C Spine Rule (CCR) and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (Nexus) low criteria are well accepted as guide to help physician in case of cervical blunt trauma.

Methods: We aimed to evaluate retrospectively the application of these recommendations in our emergency department. Secondly we analyzed the quality of cervical spine radiography (CSR) in an emergency setting.

Hypoxemia after pneumothorax exsufflation: a case report.

We describe a 36-year-old patient who was admitted to the emergency ward for acute dyspnea due to a spontaneous pneumothorax. He was successfully drained but shortly after presented a severe hypoxemia due to pulmonary oedema secondary to pulmonary re-expansion. The physiopathology behind this complication is still unknown.

Robotic-assisted surgical myotomy in a 27-year-old man with myocardial bridging of the left anterior descending coronary artery.

Myocardial bridging (MB) is a frequent condition usually considered benign but it may be associated with myocardial ischemia. When bridging is symptomatic, therapeutic options are numerous and in the absence of guidelines all options are conceivable. This is a case of a 27-year-old man who benefited from a new surgical approach: myotomy for MB of the left anterior descending coronary artery with the help of left robotic thoracoscopy.