[Prescribing habits of physical activity by cardiac physicians in Côte d'Ivoire].

Regular physical activity (PA) has multiple health benefits that contribute to the prevention and management of many non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease. However, a large proportion of the world's population is not active enough to benefit its health. Despite the potential of physicians to increase the level of PA practice in both primary and secondary prevention, there appears to be little intervention in this direction during medical consultations.

[Characteristics of chronic renal failure in black adult patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine department of Treichville University Hospital].

Objective: To describe the epidemiological, clinical, biological aspects, treatment and outcome of chronic renal failure.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on medical data of 301 inpatients with chronic renal failure from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008 in the internal medicine department of Treichville university hospital.

Results: The hospital prevalence of chronic renal failure was 7.

[Current aspects of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis in adults infected with HIV in the internal medicine service of the University Hospital of Treichville Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire)].

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis (NMC) and reporting sociodemographic, clinical, paraclinical aspects and outcome of patients.

Methods: It was a retrospective study concerning 22 HIV positive patients hospitalized between 2006 to and 2009 in the internal medicine service of University Hospital of Treichville for NMC.

Results: The prevalence of NMC in patients infected with HIV was 0.

[Histoplasma capsulatum histoplasmosis: apropos of 1 case observed in the internal medicine department of the CHU of Treichville (Abidjan)].

The advent of AIDS has resulted in an increase in diseases which were previously rare. In HIV-infected subjects, histoplasmosis takes a disseminated and particularly severe form, with a fatal outcome in our country, the more so because the clinical presentation resembles tuberculosis and is generally treated as such. The authors report a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient dually-reactive to HIV-1 and HIV-2, in whom the clinical presentation was fever, mediastinal lymphadenopathy and pulmonary infiltrates.

[Chronic renal insufficiency in Côte d'Ivoire: study of 800 hospital cases].

We report a retrospective study of 800 cases of chronic renal failure (CRF) admitted in the Internal Medical Department at Teaching Hospital of Treichville in Abidjan from January 1990 to December 1990 for precising the etiological, radiological, biological, clinical and epidemiological aspects of this entity in our practice. Kidney renal failure represents 5.8% of the whole patients hospitalised at the same period.

[Etiologic aspects of nephrotic syndrome in Black African adults in a hospital setting in Abidjan].

We studied nephrotic patients hospitalised in internal medicine service at Treichville Teaching hospital from September 1986 to February 1993 for precising the aetiological aspects of black adult patients and their evolutive biological, clinical and epidemiological profile. Secondary Nephrotic syndrome represented 18% of the whole patients with Nephrotic syndrome hospitalised during the same period. In aetiological field it was about: diabetic nephropathy 11 cases (33%); lupus nephritis 7 cases (21%); renal amyloidosis 5 cases (15%); HIV nephropathy 5 cases (15%); schistosomiasis nephrotic syndrome 1 case (3%); pregnancy nephrotic syndrome 1 case (3%); cryoglobulinemia 1 case (3%); malignancy nephrotic syndrome 1 case (3%); nephrosclerosis 1 case (3%).

[Pain during peritoneum pinching, a pathognomonic sign of peritoneal disease. Clinical research. Semiological value].

Pain induced by pinching the peritoneum betrays a pathology of that membrane. It is absent when the peritoneum is perfectly healthy. Pain is elicited by a special palpation technique.

[Stopping persistent hiccups in the adult by endoscopic maneuver].

Thirty-four patients with persistent hiccups (median duration 10 days) were treated by gentle endoscopic massage of the region of the cardia. Hiccups stopped in all cases. Its early recurrence in one patient only required a second massage, which was also effective.

[Chronic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection on the Ivory Coast. A series of 277 symptomatic patients].

Only a few reports have established the importance of chronic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection in Africa. The aim of this study was to ascertain the prevalence of chronic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection in a symptomatic population in Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire. The study included 277 consecutive patients referred for gastroscopy.

[HIV1 seropositivity and B and D viruses in West Africa].

This study was undertaken to investigate relationships between three widespread viruses in West Africa, i.e. HIV1 and viruses B and D, in Ivory Coast.

[Acute disseminated lupus erythematosus in Ivory Coast (apropos of 9 cases)].

Nine cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (S.L.E.

[Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy or the Destombes-Rosai-Dorfman disease in the Ivory Coast].

Sinusal histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a rare pathological entity since, as of 1983, only 200 cases have been published. Following the seminal description in 1965 by Destombes in Blacks, histological features of this disease were specified by Rosai and Dorfman in 1969 and 1972. We report three cases in young Ivorian subjects.

[Epidemiology of colorectal cancer in the Ivory Coast].

Several epidemiologic studies using data from hospital departments and from the pathological department of the Abidjan University show that colorectal cancer is infrequent in Ivory Coast (2% of all cancers). The incidence of the various factors classically incriminated in colic carcinogenesis is analyzed and discussed: precancerous conditions (adenomas, polyps, inflammatory bowel disease), histogenesis (condition of the colic mucosa) and nutritional factors. Constipation, which is very common in spite of a high intake of fibers, cannot be regarded as a predisposing factor.

[Functional colonic pathology in the Ivory Coast].

Functional colic disorders such as the irritable bowel syndrome are very common in Ivory Coast. Etiologic, clinical, biological and roentgenological features were studied in 100 randomized cases. Findings were compared to the features encountered in Caucasians.

[Significance of the presence of Australia antigen in liver diseases seen in a department of internal medicine in Abidjan].

The exact responsibility of the hepatitis B virus in hepatic diseases seen in Ivory Coast is difficult to specify for several reasons, particularly technical ones. Nevertheless, we have tried to determine the prevalence of the HB virus in hospital practice and in patients hospitalized for liver diseases (viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, primary liver cancer). Comparison of the results to the prevalence of the virus in the ivorian population and statistical processing has led us to moderate the influence of HB virus in the different hepatic disorders.

[Hepatic amebiasis: recent aspects. One hundred and sixty one case reports (author's transl)].

The authors describe their experience of 16l patients (151 adults and 10 children) with hepatic amebiasis. Diagnosis and treatment were carried out at the Treichville Hospital University Center in Abidjan over a three-year period, from September 1976 to November 1979. Diagnosis was established without question in all cases.