Factors associated with traction alopecia in women living in Yaoundé (Cameroon).

Background: Traction alopecia (TA) is very common in Africa but few studies on African population are available. We sought to determine factors associated with TA and measure the association between these factors and TA.

Methods: We carried out an analytical cross-sectional study in 29 hairdressing saloons in the city of Yaoundé.

Predictors of stroke favorable functional outcome in Guinea, results from the Conakry stroke registry.

Low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) now bear most of the stroke burden. In LMICs, stroke epidemiology and health care systems are different from HICs. Therefore, a high-income country (HIC)-based predictive model may not correspond to the LMIC stroke context.

Computed tomography angiography for quantification of cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of computed tomography angiography (CTA) for quantification of cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in proximal and middle segments of intracranial arteries.

Materials And Methods: Twenty consecutive patients (7 men, 13 women; mean age, 47 ± 7 [SD] years; age range: 27-78 years) with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage who underwent CTA and digital subtracted angiography (DSA) with a 6-hour window at baseline and during vasospasm period were included. Twelve artery segments were analyzed in each patient.

Risk factors associated with necrotizing fasciitis of the lower limbs: A multicenter case-control study.

Objective: The aim of this case-control study was to identify risk factors associated with necrotizing fasciitis (NF) of the lower limbs.

Patients And Methods: We conducted a prospective case-control study in hospital dermatology departments in 5 sub-Saharan African countries over a 2-year period (April 2017 to July 2019). The cases were patients with NF of the lower limbs and the controls were patients with leg erysipelas.

Public health emergency management capacity building in Guinea: 2014-2019.

Before the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak of 2014-2016, Guinea did not have an emergency management system in place. During the outbreak, Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) 2014-2019 funds made it possible to rapidly improve the country's capacity to manage epidemics through the development of public health emergency operation centres (PHEOCs) at the national and district levels. Since the end of the response, the infrastructure, staff, and systems of these PHEOCs have been further reinforced and well-integrated in the daily activities of Guinea's National Agency for Health Security, the entity responsible for the management of epidemics.

[Medical certificates for intentional wounds and blows in medico-legal practice in Dakar].

Drawing up the medical certificate is a crucial step in the judicial process. This judicial document should be drafted during a medical legal consultation. This study aims to evaluate the quality of medical certificates in a medico-judicial consultation and to study interpretative criteria of medical certificate validity.

[Causes of death in Dakar and health policy].

The study of mortality enables to identify the major public health problems in the countries under consideration. It can give an indication on the preventive and "medico-curative" measures as well as on the investments in research that could increase life expectancy of the population. This study aims to evaluate the causes of death in the general population based on the informations contained in the register of deaths in Dakar.

[Characteristics of work-related injuries and the fate of the victims: about 133 cases reported to the Social Security Fund in Dakar, Senegal].

Introduction: Work-related injuries have an impact on social security system of the country, on the victims as well as on their relatives. The objective is the aim of our study was to describe the different characteristics of work-related injuries reported to the Social Security Fund (CSS) in Dakar as well as the socioprofessional course of the victims.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study over a period of 5 years, from 2002 to 2006.

Breast Milk Lipidome Is Associated with Early Growth Trajectory in Preterm Infants.

Human milk is recommended for feeding preterm infants. The current pilot study aims to determine whether breast-milk lipidome had any impact on the early growth-pattern of preterm infants fed their own mother's milk. A prospective-monocentric-observational birth-cohort was established, enrolling 138 preterm infants, who received their own mother's breast-milk throughout hospital stay.

Assessing the outcomes of HIV-infected persons receiving treatment for Kaposi sarcoma in Conakry-Guinea.

Background: Médecins Sans Frontières is supporting comprehensive HIV care and treatment for Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) in Guinea, where antiretroviral coverage is low and access to KS treatment is very limited. We aimed to evaluate treatment response and survival outcomes of epidemic KS in this setting.

Methods: Retrospective survival analysis of routinely collected clinical data of HIV-infected patients with clinically diagnosed KS, receiving ART and chemotherapy consisting of a combination of bleomycin and vincristine at the Donka National Hospital in Conakry between 2012 and 2015.

Open wounds of the Achilles tendon in tropical settings: 36 cases at the Donka University Hospital in Guinea Conakry.

The aim of this study was to analyze the epidemiologic, etiologic, and therapeutic aspects of open wounds of the Achilles tendon managed in the Donka University Hospital. This 3-year prospective included all patients admitted for an Achilles tendon injury. Closed injuries, suppurating wounds, and those that occurred more than 24 hours before admission were excluded.

Developing an SMS Intervention for the Prevention of Underage Drinking: Results From Focus Groups.

Background: There is growing evidence that text messaging-"short message service" (SMS)-is useful for health promotion and behavior change. SMS has become a preferred channel of communication among adolescents. Despite burgeoning interest, there remains a critical need for formative research regarding developmentally and culturally appropriate SMS-based health promotion with teenagers.

Risk factors associated with abscess formation among patient with leg erysipelas (cellulitis) in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicenter study.

Background: Abscess formation is a frequent local complication of leg erysipelas. In this study we aimed at identifying factors associated with abscess formation of leg erysipelas in patients in sub-Saharan African countries.

Method: This is a multicenter prospective study conducted in dermatology units in eight sub-Saharan African countries from October 2013 to September 2014.

[Risk factors associated with leg erysipelas (cellulitis) in sub-Saharan Africa: A multicentre case-control study].

Background: Acute bacterial cellulitis of the leg (erysipelas) is a common problem involving considerable morbidity in dermatology practice in Africa. Previous studies conducted in Europe and North Africa have highlighted lymphoedema and toe-web intertrigo as independent factors associated with leg erysipelas. The aim of this case-control study was to identify risk factors associated with leg erysipelas in sub-Saharan Africa, within a different socio-economic and culture context.

[Evaluation of antiretroviral treatment in HIV infected adult in the department of dermatology venereology of the Donka national hospital].

Unlabelled: If the use of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) have largely improved survival, morbidity and the quality of life of the people living with HIV in Northern countries as well as Southern countries and particularly in Africa, many obstacles have slowed down their use. Thus the follow-up of the patients under HAART in certain developing countries is still limited even non-existent.

Objective: The objective of this work was to bring the therapeutic outcomes obtained after a minimal six months period of follow-up among HIV+ patients admitted in external consultations or following hospitalizations.

[Scorpion envenomation treated in the Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Donka National Hospital, Guinea].

A retrospective descriptive study was conducted from 1(st) October 2010 to 30 November 2012 on the records of patients admitted for scorpion envenomation in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Donka National Hospital. The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiological profile and clinical characteristics of scorpion envenomation in Maritime Guinea, from scorpion stings recently covered in this service. We collected 75 cases of scorpion envenomation.

[Epidemiological, clinical and judicial aspects of sexual assault in Bamako (Mali)].

Background: Sexual assault rates are underestimated in Mali. This study was designed to assess the epidemiological, clinical and judicial aspects of sexual assault.

Patients And Method: A retrospective study was conducted from 1st July 2007 to 30 April 2010 in the health care centre of the 4th Commune of Bamako.

[Evaluation of antiretroviral treatment in HIV infected adult in the department of dermatological venereology of the Donka National Hospital].

Unlabelled: If the use of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) have largely improved survival, morbidity and quality of life of the people living with HIV in Northern and Southern countries, and particularly in Africa, many obstacles have slowed down their use. Thus the monitoring of patients under HAART in certain developing countries is still very low, if not non-existent.

Objective: The objective of this study was to bring the therapeutic outcomes obtained after a minimal six months period of monitoring among HIV positive patients admitted in external consultations or following hospitalizations.