Author(s): Kaloga Mamadou, Bamba Vagamon, Kouassi Yao Isidore, Ecra Elidjé Joseph, Gbéry Ildevert Patrice, Diabate Almamy, Kourouma Sarah, Sangaré Abdoulaye, Kouassi Alexandre, Kassi Komenan, Djéha Djokouehi, and Ahogo Kouadio Celestin
Summary: Data from the black skin of psoriasis in Africa is limited. We studied the epidemiological, clinical and management in Ivorian hospital.
Materials and methods: We performed a descriptive cross-sectional study of patients seen in consultation or hospitalization for psoriasis in the Treichville University Hospital of Dermatology Center of Abidjan January 1, 1996 to December 31, 2012.
Result: The prevalence evaluated hospital 17 years is 0.46% (447 cases of psoriasis over 96,677 consultations). The mean age was 35 ± 10 years with a median of 39 years. Male predominant emerged with a sex ratio M/F 2.85. 18 patients were infected with HIV. 382 cases (85.46%) corresponded to common plaque psoriasis and 65 cases (14.54%) to severe forms often and rarely erythrodermic or pustular arthropathiques. Two cases of death from respiratory failure were recorded in two patients also pneumonia.
Conclusion: A total of psoriasis is relatively poorly represented affection in African hospitals and predominates in the male, with a representation of the clinical forms little different from that found in European series of dermatological recruitment.
