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In Madagascar, the epidemiological data actualized concerning the cancer of the collus of uterus are not available because of the absence of register of cancer. The objective of this study is to achieve a first assessment of the problem, to complete the epidemiological knowledge, to point out the tool of precoce detection of the precancerous lesions, to propose the measures aiming to improve the management of the patients and to contribute to the institution of a register of cancer. This is a retrospective survey on the frequency of the cancer of the cervix observed from 1992 to 2002 about 23,908 withdrawals addressed to the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar for anatomopathological exam and 12,605 cervical smears for cytological exam. In pathological anatomy, 2,621 (63.4%) of 4,136 cases of diagnosed cancer, have been observed in women. 687 cases (26.2%) of them were localized in the collus. The 3/4 of the cancers of the cervix is invasive and the mean age is 48.2 years old at the time of diagnosis. The cytology detects only 74 cases of invasive cancer of which most don't have an histological confirmation. 274 pre-lesions of cervix cancer were diagnosed for this period, the majority lesions are cytological diagnosis. In spite of a non representative recruitment of the general population, and by the number of withdrawals considered, these results may represent indicators of the epidemiological situation and justify the institution of program to detect the precancerous lesions in a national scale.
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Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/epidemiología , Centros Médicos Académicos , Academias e Institutos , Adulto , Distribución por Edad , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Humanos , Incidencia , Madagascar/epidemiología , Tamizaje Masivo , Persona de Mediana Edad , Evaluación de Necesidades , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Infecciones por Papillomavirus/complicaciones , Infecciones por Papillomavirus/diagnóstico , Infecciones por Papillomavirus/epidemiología , Vigilancia de la Población , Lesiones Precancerosas/complicaciones , Lesiones Precancerosas/diagnóstico , Lesiones Precancerosas/epidemiología , Sistema de Registros , Estudios Retrospectivos , Factores de Riesgo , Gestión de la Calidad Total , Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/clasificación , Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/diagnóstico , Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/etiología , Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/prevención & control , Frotis VaginalRESUMEN
Breast cancer is a great problem of public health all over the world. In developed countries, breast cancer represents the most common cancer in females. Its incidence is also increasing in developing country. In Madagascar, no data is available to estimate the real incidence and prevalence rates of breast cancer. However, the data at the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar can confirm the extent of the problem even if it is not at a national scale. The authors report the results of a retrospective study from histological examination at the Laboratory of pathological anatomy of the IPM, during 7 years. Among 2,337 cases of cancer, 16% (373) were breast cancer. Most of them were a female breast cancer (356 cases). The average age is 48 years old. 30% of the tumors were more than 2 cm in size, corresponding at least to the T2 stade from the International Union Against Cancer anatomoclinical classification. The current histological type is the infiltrating ductal carcinoma (80%), about 2/3 belong to the grade 3 of the Scarff-Bloom-Richardson histopronostical classification. Early diagnosis of the cancer is difficult because of the insufficiency of the sanitary infrastructure, particularly for cervical and breast cancers. A national policy for screening must be set up in order to decrease the rate of these invasive carcinomas. In the meantime, informing women and training all the medical staff is a priority. Recording all the data in Madagascar would be desirable.
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Neoplasias de la Mama , Adolescente , Adulto , Distribución por Edad , Anciano , Biopsia , Neoplasias de la Mama/diagnóstico , Neoplasias de la Mama/epidemiología , Neoplasias de la Mama/terapia , Países en Desarrollo , Femenino , Educación en Salud , Política de Salud , Humanos , Incidencia , Madagascar/epidemiología , Masculino , Tamizaje Masivo , Persona de Mediana Edad , Programas Nacionales de Salud , Evaluación de Necesidades , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Prevención Primaria , Salud Pública , Estudios Retrospectivos , Factores de Riesgo , Distribución por SexoRESUMEN
In a Schistosoma haematobium-endemic village in western Madagascar we evaluated ultrasonography and Eosinophil Cationic Protein (ECP) in urine as means to detect the associated urinary tract pathology. 192 individuals were matched according to age and sex, and grouped into infected persons with bladder and, if present, kidney pathology (n = 96); infected persons without pathology (n = 48) and noninfected persons without pathology (n = 48). The median urinary egg count was significantly higher in individuals with ultrasonographically detectable urinary tract pathology (115 eggs/10 ml urine) than in infected persons without (45 eggs/10 ml of urine). At 136 ng/ml, the median ECP level was significantly higher in the 144 infected individuals than in the 48 noninfected persons (0.35 ng/ml). Egg excretion correlated positively with ECP level. The median ECP level was significantly higher in the group with ultrasonographically detectable urinary tract pathology than in the group without (183 ng/ml vs. 67 ng/ml). The results suggest that minor degrees of pathology, particularly at an early stage of infection with S. haematobium, might be overlooked by ultrasonography despite the presence of marked inflammation, as indicated by markedly increased urinary ECP levels in infected individuals without ultrasonographically detectable urinary tract pathology. ECP may therefore provide important information on the evolution of S. haematobium-associated urinary tract morbidity.
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Proteínas Sanguíneas/orina , Ribonucleasas , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/diagnóstico , Sistema Urinario/diagnóstico por imagen , Adolescente , Adulto , Biomarcadores/orina , Niño , Proteínas en los Gránulos del Eosinófilo , Femenino , Hematuria/diagnóstico , Humanos , Masculino , Recuento de Huevos de Parásitos , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/diagnóstico por imagen , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/epidemiología , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/orina , UltrasonografíaRESUMEN
This prospective study was designed to look for and describe urologic and nephrologic consequences of urinary bilharziosis due to schistosoma haematobium in a hyperendemic hotbed in the middle west of Madagascar. Methodology included clinical examination, kidney and bladder ultrasonography, urine dipsticks and creatininemia. Amongst a population of 574 persons aged 5 years ore more, 436 (76%) had bilharziosis ova in the urine (filtration method). From the clinical point of view, 257 patients (58.9%) had microscopic hematuria, 178 (40.8%) had presently an hematuria; 111 patients (25.5%) suffered from dysuria; 18 patients (4.1%) had limb oedema when 3 patients had present oedema (0.7%). Among 436 checked people, 267 (61.2%) had an ultrasonography abnormality. In 252, it was bladder wall abnormalities (57.8%). They were wall irregularities in 182 cases (41.7%); vesico-ureteral reflux in 22 cases (5.3%); ureteral dilatations in 22 cases (5.3%) and pyelocalyceal dilatations in 61 cases (13.9%). Prevalence of proteinuria 75.2% (316 amongst 420 checked people) of whom 5.7% (24 cases) had 5 g/l or more. Hematuria was found in 352 patients (83.8%) of whom 238 (56.7%) had more than 250 erythrocytes per microliter. Prevalence of leucocyturia was 56.7% (238 cases). Creatininemia was measured in 140 people with positive filtration; it was normal in all except two patients. This study highlights the parallel evolution between parasitic infection and uronephrological manifestations of the disease.
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Enfermedades Renales/etiología , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/complicaciones , Enfermedades de la Vejiga Urinaria/etiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Distribución por Edad , Anciano , Niño , Femenino , Humanos , Enfermedades Renales/epidemiología , Madagascar/epidemiología , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Prevalencia , Estudios Prospectivos , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/epidemiología , Enfermedades de la Vejiga Urinaria/epidemiologíaRESUMEN
This study shows the effect of praziquantel as a 12 month treatment on the uro-nephrological consequences of Schistosoma haematobium chronic infection. This was done in a hyperendemic setting in the middle west of Madagascar. 435 people with ova in their urine filtration test were followed up with clinical examination, ultrasonography, urinary sticks and creatininemia. The prevalence of macroscopic hematuria decreased significantly from 32.5% (153 patients) to 4.3% (20 patients) (p < 0.05). Other abnormalities decreased but not significantly. The prevalence of proteinuria decreased from 62.3% (271 cases) to 20.2% (88 cases) (p < 0.05%) when microscopic hematuria varied from 72.4% (315 cases) to 31.5% (271 cases). Leukocyturia remained stable from 49% (213 cases) to 47.8% (207 cases). On ultrasonography, the whole abnormalities varied from 54.1% (256 patients) to 16.7% (79 patients). Prevalence of bladder abnormalities decreased from 50% (237 cases) to 16.3% (77 cases) (p < 0.05); prevalence of vesico-ureteral reflux decreased from 5.1% (23 cases) to 0.2% (1 case) (p < 0.05) and that of pyelocaliceal from 14.6% (54 cases) to 2.5% (12 cases). The reference drug, praziquantel has a clear-cut effect on this chronic pathology. Bladder wall abnormalities are particularly interested by this favourable effects.
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Enfermedades Renales/tratamiento farmacológico , Praziquantel/uso terapéutico , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/tratamiento farmacológico , Esquistosomicidas/uso terapéutico , Enfermedades de la Vejiga Urinaria/tratamiento farmacológico , Humanos , Enfermedades Renales/parasitología , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/complicaciones , Enfermedades de la Vejiga Urinaria/parasitologíaRESUMEN
To assess the morbidity of S. haematobium infection in women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in the western part of Madagascar, the village of Betalatala with a prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis in women of 75.6% (95% confidence limit 69.3 to 81.9%) was compared with a neighbouring village with similar socio-economic characteristics and a prevalence of 5.0% (95% confidence limit 0 to 11.75%). The women were questioned in Malagasy about obstetrical history and urogynecological symptoms. They were examined gynaecologically, parasitologically and by ultrasonography. Important STDs were excluded by appropriate diagnostics. In Betalatala significantly more women reported a history of spontaneous abortion (P < 0.01), complaints of irregular menstruation (P < 0.001), pelvic pain (<0.05), vaginal discharge (P < 0.0001), dysuria (P < 0.05) and haematuria (P < 0.01) than in the control village. Biopsies were obtained from the cervix of 36 women with macroscopical lesions, and in 12 cases S. haematobium eggs were found by histological sectioning (33.3%). In the control village no eggs were detected in the histological sections of biopsies taken from 14 women. (P < 0.05). Infections with Candida albicans, Trichomonas vaginalis, Gardnerella vaginalis and Treponema pallidum were found in similar frequencies in both villages. In 9.8% of the women in Betalatala abnormalities of the upper reproductive tract were revealed by ultrasonography versus none in the women from the control village (P < 0.05). Echographic abnormalities of the urinary tract were present in 24% and 3% of the women in the study village and in the control village, respectively (P < 0.0001). These findings were accompanied by an elevated frequency of haematuria (55% versus 20%) and proteinuria (70.4% versus 25%) in the study population (P < 0.0001). Our study indicates that S. haematobium infection in women may not only cause symptoms in the urinary tract, but also frequently in the lower and upper reproductive tract.
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Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/complicaciones , Aborto Espontáneo/etiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Femenino , Enfermedades de los Genitales Femeninos/etiología , Humanos , Madagascar/epidemiología , Trastornos de la Menstruación/etiología , Persona de Mediana Edad , Embarazo , Prevalencia , Población Rural , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/diagnóstico por imagen , Esquistosomiasis Urinaria/epidemiología , Clase Social , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , UltrasonografíaRESUMEN
Female genital schistosomiasis, FGS, was investigated in a gynaecological study as part of an overall community based morbidity survey, including parasitological and ultrasonographical examination, of a Schistosoma haematobium endemic area in Madagascar. Women (103), of childbearing age (15-49 years), were included for a gynaecological examination and visible lesions of vagina and cervix were biopsied in order to determine the origin of the lesion. Furthermore all women were screened for the presence of schistosome ova using PAP smears from the vagina and the endo/exo cervix. In total 15 women showed schistosome ova in the vagina and/or cervix (median age 24 years and range 15-36 years). Of 36 women with cervical abnormalities, 12 eggs were detected by cervical biopsy (33%). In addition, two of the 12 presented vaginal induration, which contained eggs. Six women had eggs in their PAP smears of which three were egg negative by cervical biopsy. The prevalence of positive S. haematobium egg excretion in the urine among the 103 women was 69% and the geometric mean egg count of positive individuals was 51 eggs/10 ml of urine. Five of the 15 women with confirmed FGS had < or = 1 egg/10 ml of urine. Bladder lesions and congestive changes in the kidneys were demonstrated by ultrasonographic examination in 33 and 9% of the 103 women, respectively. None of the 15 women with confirmed FGS had renal congestion. Our study demonstrates that FGS is a common manifestation of the infection with S. haematobium, even in lightly infected individuals.