ABSTRACT
Studies on the anatomy of the renal arteries in Black Africans being scarce, the authors have made their contribution to the knowledge of the renal arteries. They have provided a comparison between the anatomy of the renal arteries studied in the literature in relation to a white patient and black patient. It is a prospective study based on the change in the number of the renal arteries of 44 Black Africans' maccabees quite fresh, not yet embalmed that have been dissected in order, as received in the anatomy laboratory of Abidjan. That work has allowed to notice some results that are more or less similar to those revealed in the literature, i.e. in 80% of the cases, the kidney is irrigated by an artery, and in 20% of the cases, we have more than one artery for one kidney. No kidney is vascularized by more than two arteries. These results underline how important it is to have good anatomical knowledge of this region in renal surgery. This is possible thanks to medical imagery and arteriography which helps in preventing operative accidents and in preserving the kidney.
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Kidney/blood supply , Renal Artery/anatomy & histology , Adult , Black People , Cadaver , Child , Cote d'Ivoire , Humans , Infant, NewbornABSTRACT
The urogenital fistulas (UGF), mostly in Africa and particularly in Ivory Coast, still represent a great flail nowadays. However, the authors notice, through a study of 70 cases done in Ivory Coast over (ten) 10 years, that a relative decrease of the impact of the urogenital fistulas troubles still remains a serious affection of young women who can give birth. They are about 30 years old and more; that is to say primipares (44.28%) but over all multipares (54.28%) and poor ones (100%). Most cases are obstetrical causes which expose those women to genital mutilations (25.71%) linked to birth giving difficulties which also bring about many dead born (14.11%) and divorces (20%).
