Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders in Black African: Experience of Togo (2015-2020).

 Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) would disproportionately affect blacks within mixed populations. However, they are rarely reported in black African. The objective of this work was to report the experience of Togo, a West African country in terms of NMOSD.

[Guillain-Barré syndrome in hospitals in Togo].

Introduction: In sub-Saharan Africa characterized by limited resources especially in health facilities and a relatively higher frequency of infectious diseases, studies on Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are rare.

Objectives: The objectives of this work are to describe the characteristics of GBS in Togo through a cohort of patients followed in the neurology unit of the Campus University Hospital of Lomé.

Methodology: The study took place from May 2015 to July 2019.

[Neurological manifestations of Gougerot and Sjögren disease: a Black African case].

Primitive Gougerot-Sjögren syndrome (PGSS) is a systemic autoimmune exocrinopathy in which twenty percent of affected patients develop neurological manifestations. It has been little described in the Black African literature. We report a case of PGSS in a 64-year-old Black woman as revealed by neurological manifestations in an inflammatory context.

[Vascular age and cardiovascular risk in patients suffering from stroke].

Aims: To determine the vascular age of patients suffering from stroke and their cardiovascular risk at 10 years and to compare their vascular age to their real age.

Material And Methods: It was about a descriptive and retrospective study carried up from 1st January 2012 to 31st December 2013 at the neurologic clinic of the University teaching hospital Sylvanus Olympio of Lome from patients' files with a confirmed diagnostic of stroke according to the clinical examination and the scanner data.

Results: One hundred and ninety-four patients were related to our study.

[Disseminated cysticercosis: report of three cases in Togo].

We report 3 cases of disseminated cysticercosis (DC) in adult male subjects in Togo. All had consulted in dermatology for asymptomatic subcutaneous nodules. The diagnosis was confirmed by histology of a resected nodule.