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P Jean

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[Mucous diaphragm of the cervical esophagus. Apropos of 38 cases discovered during upper endoscopy at the General Hospital of Dakar. Relationship with the Kelly-Paterson or the Plummer-Vinson syndrome].

At the occasion of 15,000 high endoscopies performed during the past 5 years at the general Hospital of Dakar (Senegal) 38 mucous diaphragms of cervical esophagus were discovered. 36 patients are Black Senegalese; 29 females and 9 males with a mean age of 37. Dysphagia was present 29 times and anemia 22 times. Endoscopies diagnosis is easy, putting into light a mucous diaphragm at the level or immediately below Killian mouth. 18 of these cases have been classified as Kelly-Paterson syndrome. Performed in 30 patients, the treatment consists in breaking down the mucous diaphragm with an endoscope. It is difficult to keep on endoscopic monitoring, although it is essential because the risk of cancerisation.

Adolescent↗
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[Human immunodeficiency virus infections (HIV-1 and HIV-2) in Dakar. Epidemiologic and clinical aspects].

The authors report on the results of an investigation carried out on 109 HIV seropositives ascertained by the Dakar Central Hospital between February 20, 1987 and May 31, 1988. These seropositives affected 44 patients with AIDS (0.78% of admitted patients) and 65 seropositive people of which 43 blood donors (1.35% of donors). Both viruses are present in about equal number: 50 HIV1 seropositives, 44 HIV2 seropositives, and 15 composite seropositives. Sex-ratio is 3,9 in favour of males; this figure is nearer to the one observed in Europe and North American than the one observed in Central Africa where there is equality between both sex. Clinical patterns are dominated by a bad general status: lost of weight, fever, diarrhea, polyadenopathiae, pneumopathiae, meningoencephalitis. Kaposi's sarcoma and cryptococcal meningitis have been observed only four times. Development of the infection lead to death for 12 patients during the 16 months of the investigation. Both viruses are responsible for an equal immunodepression, leading to the same potential severity. Immunodepression might be acquired more slowly with HIV2, so strongly suggesting an incubation apparently lasting more.

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[Survey of nutritional pathology in Mauritania].

A display of the different nutritional problems in Mauritania, such as they could be studied under the working medical conditions in this country. This study shows the coexistence, into a low life level country, of nutritional deficiency diseases, and obesity induced diseases, especially frequent among the mature women. This reality emphasizes the complexity of the mechanisms responsible for the nutritional diseases, and advocates for a global action to improve the nutritional status of a population. This supposes to integrate all the known data, including social and cultural knowledges.

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