Publications by authors named "Ramilitiana B"
Introduction: Urinary tract infection is the leading cause of nosocomial infection worldwide. It is a factor in the progression of chronic kidney disease.
Aim: To determine the epidemiological, clinical, microbiological, therapeutic and evolving profile of patients with chronic kidney disease and urinary tract infection.
Introduction: Initiation of emergency dialysis is a critical situation responsible for high morbidity and mortality. This study describes the characteristics of emergency hemodialysis patients in a hospital in Madagascar.
Patients And Methods: It is a descriptive study over a period of 7 months, from September 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019, on emergency hemodialysis patients in the hemodialysis department of the University Hospital of Joseph Raseta Befelatanana, Antananarivo.
Article Synopsis
- Many patients in sub-Saharan Africa with hypertension require multiple medications, and a fixed-dose combination of perindopril arginine, indapamide, and amlodipine is found to be more effective than single drugs or separate combinations.
- An observational study involving 198 patients in Madagascar and Mauritius assessed the drug's effectiveness and tolerance over three months, measuring blood pressure changes and patient/physician satisfaction.
- Results showed significant reductions in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, with over 80% of patients meeting target levels and excellent drug tolerance reported by patients and physicians throughout the study.
Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is defined as an inability of the kidney to perform its normal functions and which persists beyond three months. Nowadays, the estimated glomerular filtration rate based on plasmatic creatinine level remains the gold standard to assess renal function. In Madagascar, we miss national data concerning the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease probably due to the complexity of carrying out the serum creatinine assays.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is one of the criteria for severe malaria with a varied incidence. Our objectives are to determine the prevalence of malaria-associated AKI and to report the characteristics of patients with the evolution of cases.
Patients And Method: This is a 5-year retrospective descriptive study from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2019 in the Infectious Diseases department of the University Hospital Center of Befelatanana Antananarivo.
The knowledge of normale renal sizes specific for each individual and for any ethnicity, allows diagnostic and therapeutic medical decision. For a low-income country such as Madagascar, ultrasound is an ideal tool for this purpose. This study aims to collect data on renal dimensions and to seek the correlation between these data and the demographic and anthropometric parameters in Malagasies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[A retrospective study on the incidence of chronic renal failure in the Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology at University Hospital of Antananarivo (the capital city of Madagascar)].
Pan Afr Med J
February 2017
Chronic renal failure is a global public health problem. In developed countries, this disease occurs mainly in the elderly, but in Africa it rather affects active young subjects. This disease need for expensive treatments in a low income country, because of its costs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Cirrhotic patients have poorer life expectancy than the general population. The purpose of this study was to identify causes of death in a sample of cirrhotic patients from Madagascar.
Methods: A retrospective analytic and descriptive study was conducted on the files of cirrhotic inpatients admitted to the gastroenterology department of the Joseph Raseta Befelatanana University Hospital Center in Antananarivo, Madagascar from January 1, 2003 to June 30, 2007.