[Evaluation of the glycemia of low-weight newborns within the 24th hour of life at Lomé University Hospital (Togo)].

Objective: To assess the glycemia of low-weight newborns (LWNBs) during their first 24h of life as well as their mother's glycemia.

Patients And Method: This was a cross-sectional prospective study within a case-control group, conducted at Lomé University Hospital (nationwide main hospital) from January to May 2006. One hundred thirty-nine LWNBs and 150 eutrophic term newborns (ETNBs), 98 mothers of LWNBs (MLWNBs), and 145 mothers of ETNBs (METNBs) were screened and monitored on glycemia dosage.

[Treatment of children born of AIDS mothers in Tsevie hospital regional center, Togo].

The aim of this survey was to describe the components of the children medical care follow-up in the protocol of prevention of HIV/Aids from mother to child by nevirapine intake. A four-year retrospective study was carried out in Tsevie hospital regional center 90 children and their pregnant mothers who received nevirapine were recorded. 75 children received breast feeding.

[Diluted injectable quinine in the intramuscular and intrarectal route: comparative efficacity and tolerance in malaria treatment for children ].

The intramuscular (i.m.) route is generally used for treatment of childhood falciparum malaria in outlying health care units in Togo.

[Treatment of cerebral malaria in African children by intravenous quinine: comparison of a loading dose regimen to a regimen without a loading dose].

Objective: To compare in a randomized study the efficacy and the toxicity of the new WHO intravenous quinine treatment of cerebral malaria including a loading dose regimen to a regimen without loading dose.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-two children eight months to 15 years of age with cerebral malaria were included. Quinine formiate was administered to a group of 35 patients in an initial loading dose of 20 mg salt/kg (equivalent to 17.