[Post-malaria neurological syndrome complicating a Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Madagascar].

Post-malaria neurological syndrome is a rare complication of malaria. Typically, it occurs in case of severe malaria. Here we report a case in a Malagasy patient presenting a non-severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria complicated by post-malaria neurological syndrome.

[Premature deliveries at the maternity hospital of Befelatanana, Antananarivo in 1997].

Preterm deliveries (PT) produce new-borns whose prognosis is generally very dark. Prematurity is the first cause of neonatal death. A retrospective study was carried out at the Maternity Hospital of Befelatanana, Antananarivo in order to specify causes and difficulties of PT and to draw up strategy for their better management so that premature infants have chance to survive.

[Pseudo-poliomyelitis paralysis caused by Echovirus 7].

The authors describe one case of acute flaccid paralytic of lower limbs in a 10-year-old boy with Echovirus 7 isolated in the stool and a high titer of homologous antibodies (> or = 1,024). At the final stage of poliomyelitis program eradication, paralysis associated with non polio enterovirus may replace cases of paralytic poliomyelitis. In the present study, the authors highlight the needs to confirm virologically all suspect cases of acute flaccid paralytic.

[Severe malaria in children at the pediatric service of the Befelatanana Hospital Center at Antananarivo (Madagascar) in 1996-1998].

The definition of severe malaria is no longer limited to cerebral malaria, but it is as well extended to other clinical forms of the disease. The authors reported the epidemiological and clinical survey and evaluative aspects of severe malaria in Antananarivo. This retrospective study included 48 children less than 15 years old, hospitalized at the paediatric unit Debré of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Befelatanana (Antananarivo) for severe malaria as defined by world Health Organization (WHO) criteria.