[Prevalent Of Echocardiography Anomaly In Chronic Hemodialysis Patients At The Point G Hospital].

Introduction: Cardiovascular abnormalities are frequent and often early, severe and masked in patients with renal impairment. These cardiovascular complications are the main causes of death in hemodialysis patients. The diagnosis of these cardiovascular anomalies by cardiac ultrasound allows the individualization of patients at high cardiovascular risk.

[Current status of urethral stenosis in tropical Africa/ Apropos of 71 cases].

In this study of seventy-one cases, the authors report the characteristics of the clinical course and treatment of urethral stricture in tropical Africa. In this special context, only 38% cases could benefit from a curative procedure on the urethra, whereas in 43.6% of patients, local complications only allowed palliative treatment (periodic dilatation of urethra, perineal uretherostomy or definitive cystostomy).