Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

Cerebral abscesses in HIV infection Era

Savadogo M. , Zabsonr S. , Sondo K. A, Thiombiano R

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:&#10;150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Introduction&nbsp;:</span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Cereal abscess are still a public health issue in developing countries. The objective of this study was to study the diagnosed ain abscesses in the Department of Infectious Diseases of the CHU YO.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:&#10;150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Patients and method&nbsp;:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-US"> It was a retrospective study that took place from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2013 in the infectious diseases department of the Yalgado Ou&eacute;draogo CHU.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Results&nbsp;:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> During the study period, 644 patients were hospitalized in the infectious disease department and five ain abscesses were diagnosed with a computed tomography scan, representing a hospital prevalence of 0.8%. The abscesses were due to toxoplasmosis in three HIV-infected patients and to banal germs in two others (<i>Staphylococcus spp and Escherichi coli</i>). The therapeutic strategy consisted in the introduction of an adapted etiological treatment associated with neurosurgical decompression in two patients. The evolution was favorable in all the patients thanks to a multidisciplinary care</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:&#10;11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The prevention of these abscesses requires the fight against HIV infection, correct care of meningitis and pathologies of the ENT sphere.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>