Introduction: To improve and maintain quality and safety in anesthesia, standards have been proposed regarding human resources, facilities and equipment, medications and intravenous fluids, monitoring, and the conduct of anesthesia. Compliance with these standards remains a challenge in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and results in high morbidity and mortality particularly in children. This aim of this study was to assess the progress made in improving the pediatric anesthesia infrastructures, human resources, education, medications, and equipment in French-speaking SSA over the past 10 years (2013-2022).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the contribution of blood transfusion management in the improvement of maternal and perinatal outcomes in pregnant women with sickle cell disease in Ouagadougou.
Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study with data collected from February 2012 to January 2014 was used. Patients were differentiated into three groups: patients with at least one exchange transfusion, patients who received blood transfusion, and patients who did not receive any transfusion.
Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris)
February 2016
Endomyocardial fibrosis is the most classic and the most known complication of prolonged hypereosinophilic syndrome, whatever the cause. In Burkina Faso, this complication is most frequently encountered in idiopathic form of the syndrome. It commonly involves the apex of the ventricles with possible involvement of atrioventricular valves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Determine the epidemiology of intoxications in the emergency service medico-surgical.
Materials And Methods: The stady was retrospective and transversal from January 2002 to December 2006 in the service of medical surgical emergencies of the teaching hospital Gabriel Touré. Where included all patients admitted and presenting with acute poisoning.
Cutaneous T cell lymphomas (CTCL) are rare lymphoproliferative diseases, which are frequently suspected to be of viral origin. As very few data were available concerning cutaneous T cell lymphomas in tropical Africa, we undertook a clinical, histopathological, immunological and viro-molecular study of patients with a clinical diagnosis of cutaneous lymphoma, in Bamako, Mali. While prior to this study, no case of CTCL had been reported in this country, 14 patients (five women, nine men; mean age 58 years) with a diagnosis of cutaneous lymphoma were seen over a period of 30 months (1992-1994) in the only dermatological department in Mali.
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