A retrospective cohort study on the cost-effectiveness analysis of kidney transplantation compared to dialysis in Cameroon: evidence for policy.

Introduction: chronic kidney disease affects one in ten adults in Cameroon. Haemodialysis was the only renal replacement therapy (for adults) in Cameroon and its sub-region until November 10, 2021. Thereafter through May 2022, the Yaoundé General Hospital successfully completed four living-donor kidney transplants.

Quality of life of patients operated for lumbar stenosis at the Yaoundé Central Hospital.

Several studies have been conducted in many African countries on lumbar stenosis but none on the quality of life of patients after surgery. We conducted this study to evaluate the quality of life of patients following surgery indicated for lumbar stenosis. A cross-sectional study from January 2010 to December 2015 in the neurosurgery department of the Yaoundé Central Hospital.

[Burnout among caregivers in the Yaounde Central Hospital, Cameroon].

Introduction: Burnout or burnout syndrome is a public health problem in Cameroon. It manifests itself by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished personal accomplishment of the subject. It affects most healthcare workers (HCW) and the consequences are numerous.

Visual outcome of surgically managed pituitary adenomas followed-up at the Yaoundé Central Hospital.

Introduction: Pituitary adenomas are benign brain tumours arising from the adenohypophysis; representing 10-15% of all intra-cranial tumours. Despite improved management, they are still related to high morbidity. Visual impairment is a common presentation and visual field defects representing 37-96%.

Management of tethered cord syndrome in adults: a case report in Cameroon.

Tethered cord syndrome (TCS) is spinal cord fixation from multiple pathological entities. No case of TCShas been reported in our region. The goal of this case report was to describe a TCS managed at the Douala General hospital.

Multiple myeloma revealed by spinal cord compression and herpes zoster in a 36-year-old Cameroonian.

Multiple myeloma is a malignant plasma cell disorder occurring mostly in people above 60 years old. The authors describe a case of multiple myeloma in a 36-year-old patient revealed by spinal cord compression and Herpes zoster with a rapidly unfavourable outcome.

Hydrocephalus in toddlers: the place of shunts in sub-Sahara African countries.

Purpose: This study describes the epidemiological patterns of hydrocephalus in toddlers in our setting in order to determine the proportion of those who could benefit from endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV).

Methods: This prospective and descriptive study included all toddlers operated on for hydrocephalus from 1 March 2008 to 31 March 2010 at the Yaounde Central Hospital.

Results: Forty-six toddlers were included representing 72% of all hydrocephalus cases managed at the Neurosurgery Unit during the study period.

Patterns of non-traumatic myelopathies in Yaounde (Cameroon): a hospital based study.

Background: The relative frequency of compressive and non-compressive myelopathies and their aetiologies have not been evaluated extensively in most sub-Saharan African countries. The case of Cameroon is studied.

Methods: Admission registers and case records of patients in the neurology and neurosurgery departments of the study hospital were reviewed from January 1999 to December 2006.

Risk factors for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Yaoundé-Cameroon.

Background: The prevalence of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), especially HIV-associated dementia (HAD) is influenced by several risk factors. The prevalence as well as risk factors for HAD are not well known in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We have shown that the International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS) is a useful screening tool for HAND in Yaoundé [Njamnshi AK, Djientcheu VdP, Fonsah JY, Yepnjio FN, Njamnshi DM, Muna WFT.

The International HIV Dementia Scale is a useful screening tool for HIV-associated dementia/cognitive impairment in HIV-infected adults in Yaoundé-Cameroon.

Objective: As a baseline for a series of studies on HIV-associated dementia (HAD), we sought to assess the usefulness of the recently developed International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS) as a screening tool for HAD or HIV-associated cognitive impairment (HACI) in HIV-positive adults in Yaoundé-Cameroon.

Design: The frequency of HAD/HACI is largely unknown in resource-limited countries. In Cameroon, few studies suggest that HAD may be frequent but no specific study had so far investigated the problem.

Neural tube defects are rare among black Americans but not in sub-Saharan black Africans: the case of Yaounde - Cameroon.

Background: Neural tube defects (NTD) are complex malformations rare in black Americans and Japanese. The incidence related to births or community-based studies have not been published in Cameroon or in black sub-Saharan countries, except one study in the Nigerian middle belt [Airede KI. Neural tube defects in the middle belt of Nigeria.

The epidemiology of stroke in sickle cell patients in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Background And Purpose: Stroke, a severe and recurrent but preventable complication of sickle cell disease (SCD), has not been well studied in Cameroon. To obtain baseline data towards the development of a national stroke prevention programme in SCD, we studied a sample of sickle cell patients with the aim of determining stroke prevalence, clinical presentation and management practices.

Patients And Methods: Homozygous sickle cell patients in two centres in Yaounde were screened for stroke, in a cross-sectional study.

Salmonella epidural abscess in sickle cell disease: failure of the nonsurgical treatment.

In patients suffering from sickle cell disease (SCD), bone is a preferred site of infection. We report the case of a five-year-and-eight-month-old black African boy with homozygous-SS disease who developed a cranial epidural abscess. This intracranial infectious complication originated from a Salmonella enteritidis osteitis of the frontal bone.