Fanou Lionelle

Faculté des sciences de la santé · Santé publique

Objectives Little is known about adverse food reactions. The aim of this study was to investigate the sensitization and allergy to two tropical fruits, pineapple ( Ananas comosus ) and coconut ( Cocos nucifera ), among patients followed up for allergic disease in Borgou Teaching Hospital in Parakou, Benin. Materials and Methods A prospective cross...

BACKGROUND Gender imbalance and poor representation of women complicate the anesthesiology workforce crisis in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study was performed to obtain a better understanding of gender disparity among medical graduates and anesthesiologists in SSA. METHODS Using a quantitative, participatory, insider research study, led by fema...

A 74-year-old male presented right breast cancer and prostate cancer. He had metastatic lesions on the right 7th and 8th ribs. The exact one of both cancers that had metastasized to the bone was not determined. That exceptional association of metastatic breast and prostate cancer in the same male individual was treated with Doxorubicin, Cyclophosph...

A left adrenal mass was incidentally detected in a 61 years old male as he was evaluated for a dysuria. The man had a 20 years-long history of high blood pressure and used to snuff tobacco. All the adrenal hormones were normal levelled but that of the aldosterone. The aldosterone to renin ratio was low. However, the mass turned out to be an extra-a...

Introduction Ambulatory surgery allows minimizing the time spent in the hospital, which could reduce the transmission of nosocomial pathologies and the occupation of hospital resources and infrastructures. The objective of the study was to assess the ambulatory activity of the ENT department of Military Teaching Hospital of Cotonou since its creat...

Introduction: diabetes mellitus (DM) and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) are two major and interconnected non-communicable diseases. Both negatively impact on sleep quality. This study aimed to determine among persons with type 2 DM, the proportions at high risk of OSA and of self-reported poor sleep quality along with their associated-factors in Pa...

A bilateral inguinal herniorrhaphy had driven a testicular atrophy and a iatrogenic hypergonadotropic hypogonadism in two males aged 40 and 31 years. That iatrogenic hypogonadism had shaken the marital life of the 40 years old male despite he was already father of two children. It had almost destroyed the hope of the 31 years old male to become a f...

We report a case of Conn’s adenoma in a 35-year-old female successfully managed in a poor hospital technology environment. 1. Introduction The primary hyperaldosteronism is the most frequent cause of secondary hypertension [1–4]. Diagnosis and management of the condition are often delicate. We report one case of a right aldosterone-producing adren...

Background: The African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS) showed that surgical patients in Africa have a mortality twice the global average. Existing risk assessment tools are not valid for use in this population because the pattern of risk for poor outcomes differs from high-income countries. The objective of this study was to derive and validate a...

Background: There is a need to increase access to surgical treatments in African countries, but perioperative complications represent a major global health-care burden. There are few studies describing surgical outcomes in Africa. Methods: We did a 7-day, international, prospective, observational cohort study of patients aged 18 years and older...

Background & Aim: Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is a common neurosurgical pathology. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of this pathology and the results in treating it combined from three hospital centers in Benin. Methods & Materials/Patients: From September 2010 to September 2013 a multi-center, retrospective and des...

The creation of a physically-consistent broadband material model is necessary to ensure that measured permittivity values are causal. The Debye and Fröhlich models are compared and evaluated for accuracy in the characterization of FR-4 material.

The accuracy of the short-pulse propagation (SPP) technique is evaluated for different time windowing methods. An algorithm written to replace the conventional program used for the signal processing step of the SPP technique allows control over the placement of the time window with respect to the pulse data. The values of the attenuation coefficien...

To study the efficacy of oral ferrous fumarate, an inexpensive, readily available preparation on iron deficiency in infants in Africa. Four months old (group 1, n = 252) and 6-18 months old (group 2, n = 360) healthy infants attending four primary health care centers (PHC) for vaccination/well-child visits in Benin were studied. Ninety-six pregnant...