[Management of Mauritanian children affected cardiopathies: cooperation experience with a non governmental organisation]

ABSTRACT

In the field of a convention between Mauritania and the organisation "Earth of man " we install a cooperation between cardiologists and pediatricians of Nouakchott and medica part of this non governmental organisation. With this cooperation, 62 children all Mauritanians aged from 1 to 15 years and affected by cardiopathies have been oriented to the Canton hospital of Geneva for diagnostic therapeutic and surgical problems. Evolution is favorable in 85,5% of cases but we observe 9 deaths 5 in Switzerland and 4 in Mauritania after 1 to 2 years of follow-up