[Cutaneous drug eruption at hospital in Bamako]. / Toxidermie Medicamenteuse En Milieu Hospitalier A Bamako.

INTRODUCTION: The incidences of cutaneous drug eruption constitute a real public health problem. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe the cutaneous drug eruption in Gabriel Touré Hospital in Bamako. MATERIAL AND METHOD: This is a prospective longitudinal study from 1 July 2005 to August 31, 2006. The study included patients with a lesion cutaneous Contemporary taking medication, without other cause and consent. RESULTS: We included 61 cases of toxdermies. The mean age was 28 ± 14.8 years with extremes of 18 and 77 years. The sex ratio was 2.4 for women. Self-medication was most often found in 51% of cases. The fixed drug eruption (EPF) with 26 cases (30.6%); acne with 23 cases (27%), erythema multiforme with 14 cases (16.5%) are the predominant manifestations toxidermy. The causative drugs are molecules with 12.6% with analgesics, NSAIDs with 12.6%, 13.6% with ARVs; sulfonamides with 9.5% with 7.4% beta-lactam; anticonvulsants with 5.2%. The therapeutic management was simple for minor forms. Severe forms have been hospitalized and often the help of intensive care and ophthalmology. Mortality was 2.3%. CONCLUSION: The toxidermy exist in Mali with a frequency more and more increasing. We recommend the systematic toxidermy consultations especially among HIV patients in Mali.

[Evaluation of the clinical classification of new cases of leprosy. Study conducted at the Marchoux Institute in Bamako, Mali]. / Evaluation de la classification clinique des nouveaux cas de lèpre. Etude réalisée á l'Institut Marchoux (Bamako, Mali).

INTRODUCTION: The difficulties related to the bacilloscopic diagnosis of leprosy, providing a more reliable classification of cases, in 1995 led the WHO to recommend the use of a new classification, in endemic countries, based on clinical criteria alone, in order to simplify the poly-chemotherapeutic regimens. According to our experience in the Marchoux Institute, this classification may lead to errors in diagnosis through overzealous or mis-interpretation of the two forms of leprosy. The aim of our study was to evaluate the concordance between this clinical classification and that based on a bacilloscopic examination. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a descriptive study of new cases of leprosy seen at the Marchoux Institute, without distinction in gender or age, from January to December 2000. All the patients included underwent clinical examination and a bacilloscopic exploration to provide a double classification. The concordance between the two classifications was assessed using the Kappa test. RESULTS: Two hundred new cases of leprosy were included. Out of 126 clinically multi-bacillary cases, 61 were confirmed bacteriologically, and 65 were false positives. Out of 74 clinical cases with few bacilli, 2 were bacteriologically multi-bacilli. The concordance between the two classifications was average (Kappa=0.40). There was a significant difference between the percentages of multi-bacilli observed in both classifications (p<10(-8)). DISCUSSION: The clinical classification may well overestimate the multi-bacillary form. In the absence of a reliable bacilloscopic apparatus, a more detailed clinical classification of leprosy forms must be developed.

[Noma in HIV-infected adults]. / Noma chez des adultes infectés par le VIH.

INTRODUCTION: Noma is a necrotic stomatitis, frequent in undernourished children in tropical countries. Its occurrence in adults is extremely rare and has recently been described during AIDS. We report two new cases. OBSERVATIONS: The first patient, a 37 year-old farmer, consulted for a mutilating ulcer of the commissure of the right lip. The second patient, a 25 year-old woman, consulted for an ulcerating and necrotic tumefaction of the left cheek. Anamnesis reconstructed the chronology of the lesions and a cutaneous biopsy revealed non-specific ulcers. The status of health of both patients was poor and they both exhibited positive HIV serology. DISCUSSION: The diagnosis of noma is easy and based on clinical manifestations. The characteristic aspect is that of a mutilating ulcer of the face with conventional progression: tumefaction, followed by ulceration and finally elimination necrosis. This disease predominates in children. Its discovery in adults is a sign of poor prognosis because it may reveal an HIV infection at the AIDS stage. CONCLUSION: It is important to draw the attention of practitioners on the interest of performing HIV serology when confronted with an adult exhibiting a noma, and to evoke a noma when confronted with a tumefaction of the face rapidly progressing towards necrosis.

Evaluation de la classification clinique des nouveaux cas de lèpre. Etude réalisée à lInstitut Marchoux (Bamako, Mali) / Evaluation of the clinical classification of new cases of leprosy. Study conducted at the Marchoux Institute in Bamako, Mali

INTRODUCTION: The difficulties related to the bacilloscopic diagnosis of leprosy, providing a more reliable classification of cases, in 1995 led the WHO to recommend the use of a new classification, in endemic countries, based on clinical criteria alone, in order to simplify the poly-chemotherapeutic regimens. According to our experience in the Marchoux Institute, this classification may lead to errors in diagnosis through overzealous or mis-interpretation of the two forms of leprosy. The aim of our study was to evaluate the concordance between this clinical classification and that based on a bacilloscopic examination. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a descriptive study of new cases of leprosy seen at the Marchoux Institute, without distinction in gender or age, from January to December 2000. All the patients included underwent clinical examination and a bacilloscopic exploration to provide a double classification. The concordance between the two classifications was assessed using the Kappa test.RESULTS: Two hundred new cases of leprosy were included. Out of 126 clinically multi-bacillary cases, 61 were confirmed bacteriologically, and 65 were false positives. Out of 74 clinical cases with few bacilli, 2 were bacteriologically multi-bacilli. The concordance between the two classifications was average (Kappa=0.40). There was a significant difference between the percentages of multi-bacilli observed in both classifications (p<10(-8)). DISCUSSION: The clinical classification may well overestimate the multi-bacillary form. In the absence of a reliable bacilloscopic apparatus, a more detailed clinical classification of leprosy forms must be developed.