[Echocardiography and cardiac localizations of rheumatoid polyarthritis in Africans]. / Echocardiographie et localisations cardiaques de la polyarthrite rhumatoïde chez l'Africain.

A lot of european authors demonstrate that echocardiography is the best examination to objective cardiac localizations in rhumatoïd arthritis (RA). Leleu, in a recent publication thinks that the rarity of systemic localizations during RA in Africans is characteristic. The authors examine the last 15 patients. They never find cardiac involvement and this seems to confirm the clinical impression about 50 previous cases.

[Parasitic rheumatism]. / Les rhumatismes parasitaires.

The joint manifestations of parasitic diseases are rare. They may be due to the presence of a parasite within one or severed joints, to involvement of a neighbouring joint, or distant involvement due to an immuno-allergic mechanism. The latter category constitutes what one may call parasitic rheumatism. The latter is characterised by arthropathies of inflammatory type with raised sedimentation rate, marked but inconstant hypereosinophilia, and total inefficacy of antirheumatic treatments. The diagnosis of parasitic rheumatism depends on these criteria, on the diagnosis of the parasitic disease in question, above all filariasis but also other parasitic diseases, and above all the great efficacy of specific anti-parasitic treatments.