title: [Kidney ultrasound scan performed on the adult patient with HIV serology positive in the University Hospital of Tokoin and campus of Lome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the elementary lesions, to list the kidney pathologies, to determine the kidney reach frequency and to establish an interrelationship enters the gravity of the kidney reach and the kidney's structure at the ultrasound scan.
  
  
  METHODS
  It was about a prospective survey of ten (10) month, realized in the Departments of radiology of the Teaching Hospitals of Lomé (CHU Tokoin and Campus), concerning 281 patients aged of 18 to 71 years whose HIV serology is positive.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The radiological frequency of the HIV/AIDS infection noted during our period of survey was of 3.27% (281/8583). The modal age group was of 30-40 years (32.38%). The female representativeness was 56.92% against 43.08% of men. The drivers (23.13%) follow-ups of the tradesmen were the more touched. The bachelors were more exposed (38.43%). The kidney increased size in 31.85% of the cases. The majority of the patients (88.19%) was at the echographic advanced stage of the renal suffering of which 70.08% were at the III stage. The length of the kidneys was generally normal (74.38%), their width was normal in 53.38% of the cases and increased in 44.42% of the cases. As for the thickness, it was increased in general (71.88%). The kidney suffering (49.03%) was the most dominant pathology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The wealth of the kidney pathology associated to the infection of the HIV/AIDS should bring the practitioners to integrate the ultrasound scan in the balance of this affection.
authors: Service de Radiologie CHU, Tokoin de Lome, Lome, Togo. agoda_koussema@yahoo.fr
authors: L K
authors: LK
authors: Agoda-Koussema
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Anoukoum
authors: A A
authors: AA
authors: Patassi
authors: K V
authors: KV
authors: Adjenou
authors: Y G
authors: YG
authors: Awi
authors: K M
authors: KM
authors: Awobanou
authors: K G
authors: KG
authors: N'dakena
mesh_terms: D016263:AIDS-Associated Nephropathy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014463:Ultrasonography; D055815:Young Adult