Bilan des six premiers mois de fonctionnement du service de médecine nucléaire du centre hospitalier universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo

Tapsoba, T.L.; Sanon, H.; Ouattara, T.; Ouédraogo, S.; Gansoré, K.V.

doi:10.1016/j.mednuc.2012.08.003

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“…It comes out too from our study that the cardiologists practicing in countries with a nuclear medicine department such as Burkina-Faso and Niger have prescribed more regularly scintigraphic imaging than their colleague of the other countries, that is encouraging. In Burkina-Faso, according to a study published by Tapsoba [9], the nuclear cardiology exams with 22.2% of the nuclear medicine acts performed in the 6 first months of working of the nuclear medicine department of Yalgado Ouedraogo Teaching Hospital occupied the 3rd place talking about frequency behind bone scintigraphy (38.9%) and thyroidal (29.2%). In Niger, according to Tahirou [10], 37 myocardial scintigraphies or 13.9% of nuclear medicine exams were performed from January 1st to March 31st, 2011.…”

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Place of the scintigraphy imaging in French-speaking Black African cardiological practice

Adambounou¹,

Bakpatina-Batako²,

Amy³

et al. 2017

Nucl Med Biomed Imaging

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Aim: To estimate the place of the scintigraphy imaging in French-speaking black African cardiological practice. Materials and methods:Cross-sectional study conducted from February 1st till May 30th, 2017 including 97 cardiologists practicing in French-speaking black African countries. The accessibility and the frequency of prescription of the examinations of nuclear cardiology as well as the interest carried in these examinations by the cardiologists were analyzed.Results: A department of nuclear medicine existed in their country, city and hospital of exercise respectively in 56,3%, 49.5% and 14.4% of the cases. A great majority of the cardiologists had never prescribed a myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (70.1%), of pulmonary perfusion scintigraphy (81.4%) and an multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan (94.8%). Only 5.2% of the cardiologists asserted prescribing often the myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and pulmonary scintigraphy and rarely the MUGA scan. The low frequency of prescription was connected with the rarity of the departments of nuclear medicine in 82.6% and with the weak diagnostic contribution in 8.2% of the cases.The most sensitive examination for the diagnosis of the ischemia or the myocardial infarction was coronarography according to 66% of them and myocardial scintigraphy according to 26.8%. In the evaluation of the left ventricle function, 64.9% considered that the echocardiography is the satisfactoriest against 35.1% for the MUGA scan. To eliminate a pulmonary embolism in front of a normal thoracic radiography only 14.4% would ask for a pulmonary perfusion scintigraphy. Conclusion:The place of the scintigraphy imaging is unsatisfactory in French-speaking black African cardiological practice and a raising awareness of the cardiologists on the diagnostic interest and forecasts of the nuclear cardiology is imperative so that it occupies its special place.

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