Publications by authors named "Mohamed Toure"

Objective: Most people with epilepsy (PWE) could live seizure-free if treated with one or more antiseizure medications (ASMs). The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 75% of PWE in low-resource settings lack adequate antiseizure treatment. Limited education surrounding epilepsy and the out-of-pocket costs of ASMs in particular pose barriers to managing epilepsy in resource-poor, low-income settings.

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  • In sub-Saharan Africa, diagnosing AIDS dementia is challenging due to under-medicalization, delays in seeking care, and varying causes of dementia.
  • A retrospective study analyzed 196 patients hospitalized for dementia at the University Hospital of Conakry from 2016 to 2021, using DSM-IV and AAN classification criteria.
  • The findings indicated that HIV-positive patients exhibited severe cognitive and motor impairments, with diagnosis supported by serological tests and MRI imaging, emphasizing the need for careful differentiation from other types of dementia.*
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already existing security crisis leading to massive population displacements that have been taking place since 2012.

Purpose Of Research: This study aims to explore the representations of internally displaced persons (IDPs) about the existence of COVID-19 and their knowledge about its signs, symptoms, modes of transmission and prevention measures.

Methods: The study was qualitative and exploratory.

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Introduction: Chorea is an uncommon complication of stroke. The pathophysiology, the exact location of the lesions, and the evolution of this type of chorea are still poorly understood. The objective was to describe the epidemiological, clinical, and imaging profile of post-stroke chorea in a tropical environment in the context of a stroke epidemic.

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Two hundred patients were refereed for advanced cancer to the oncology department of Luxembourg Hospital in Bamako. All these patients reported intense pain (88 %) which was only treated before admission by OMS level 1 analgesics. It clearly shows that cancer pain is undertreated in Malian peripheral sanitary structures.

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Objective: The objective was to study the influence of the visit of medical delegates on hospital prescribing.

Materials And Methods: it was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted from October 9, 2017 to February 5, 2018 at the teaching hospital of Point G in Mali. It included 54 prescribers, 36 medical visitors and 195 prescriptions.

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Background And Objective: Depression has long been recognized as a comorbidity of epilepsy in high-income countries, ranging from 17 to 49% of people with epilepsy (PWE). Of the limited studies from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where most people have uncontrolled seizures, an even higher prevalence of depression is reported among PWE at times exceeding 80%. We sought to assess the prevalence and severity of depression and its associated factors among PWE in Guinea, a sub-Saharan West African country where most PWE have poorly controlled seizures.

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The diagnostic certainty of medullar tuberculosis (TB) without Pott disease is difficult to establish in a tropical environment with the large group of infectious, parasitic, and systemic myelopathies, despite the increasing availability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data and improvement of biological exploration platforms. We retrospectively analyzed the files of 186 patients hospitalized in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the University Hospital Center of Conakry, Guinea, between 2008 and 2016 for the management of non-compressive and compressive myelopathy. Biological evidence of TB infection was demonstrated for 13 (6.

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