| Autor: |
Aké-Tano O; Département de Santé Publique et de Médecine Communautaire, UFR SMA, Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire. odileake@yahoo.fr, Konan EY, Tetchi EO, Ekou FK, Ekra D, Coulibaly A, Dagnan NS |
| Jazyk: |
francouzština |
| Zdroj: |
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) [Bull Soc Pathol Exot] 2011 Dec; Vol. 104 (5), pp. 347-51. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Feb 18. |
| DOI: |
10.1007/s13149-011-0136-6 |
| Abstrakt: |
As a re-emerging disease, beriberi caused by a lack of thiamine in food threatens more and more prisons in developing countries. Indeed in 2008, a beriberi epidemic occurred in a detention house of Côte-d'Ivoire called Maca. The goal of our retrospective investigation was to describe this epidemic in order to improve prisoners' health. The study related to 131 subjects, 64% of cases affected (N = 205). The total rate of beriberi attack was estimated at 38.6‰. The mean age was 33; all patients were male and they were detained in "Batiment C" (70.2%), synonymous with heavy punishment. They spent about 28.1 month in Maca. The clinical symptoms were neurological signs (swarming: 41%) and cardiovascular signs (dyspnoea: 42%, thoracic pain: 35%). Half of the patients (51%) presented oedemas of the lower limbs. The rate of healing was about 97% when patients followed treatment. Providing good nutrition to the prisoners and the distribution of vitamin complements will avoid other epidemics. |
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MEDLINE |
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