Partial Splenic Embolization in Paediatric Sickle Cell Disease Patients with Hypersplenism.

Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of partial splenic embolization (PSE) to reduce the need of transfusions and improve hematologic parameters in patients with hypersplenism and sickle cell disease (SCD).

Material And Methods: This prospective study includes 35 homozygous hemoglobin S patients with SCD and hypersplenism who underwent PSE from 2015 until 2021 in Kinshasa. Patients were evaluated, before and after PSE (1, 3 and 6 months), using clinical, laboratory and ultrasonographic methods.

[Lesions on CT scan in patients hospitalized for coronavirus pneumonia during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic at the University Clinics in Kinshasa (DRC)].

Introduction: the main purpose of this study is to describe chest computed tomography (CT) findings in 26 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic at the University Clinics in Kinshasa (UCK).

Methods: we conducted a descriptive study of chest CT findings in 26 patients hospitalized with coronavirus pneumonia at the UCK over a 9-month period, from March 17 to November 17, 2020. Hitachi - CT-scanner 16 slice was used in all our patients.

Morphometric semi-quantitative assessment of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal black women in Central Africa.

Unlabelled: This prospective and multi-centric study assessed the lacking of pattern in fractured patients and features of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal black women living in central Africa.

Introduction: Patients with osteoporosis commonly collapsed their vertebral body. This has been widely studied in Caucasians, Asians, and Americans and studies in black African are lacking.

Stroke subtypes and factors associated with ischemic stroke in Kinshasa, Central Africa.

Background And Purpose: Ischemic stroke causes death and disability worldwide. Better understanding and controlling factors associated will improve the prevention of the disease. This study reviews records of patients with ischemic stroke in Central Africa.

Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: Clinical and computed tomography findings in predicting in-hospital mortality in Central Africans.

Background And Purpose: Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) constitutes now 52% of all strokes. Despite of its deadly pattern, locally there is no clinical grading scale for ICH-related mortality prediction. The first objective of this study was to develop a risk stratification scale (Kinshasa ICH score) by assessing the strength of independent predictors and their association with in-hospital 30-day mortality.

Relationship between Younger Age, Autoimmunity, Cardiometabolic Risk, Oxidative Stress, HAART, and Ischemic Stroke in Africans with HIV/AIDS.

Background and Purpose. It now appears clear that both HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy (HAART) use are associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease such as stroke. In this study, we evaluated the prevalence, the risk factors, and the cardiometabolic comorbidities of stroke in HIV/AIDS Central African patients.