Annales de cardiologie et d'angéiologie
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Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris) · Oct 1988
[Chronic pulmonary heart. Apropos of 41 cases at the Cardiology Department of the Ignace-Deen University Hospital in Conakry].
In 5 years, 41 cases of chronic pulmonary heart were observed at the University Hospital Ignace-Deen in Conakry, representing 7.14 p. cent of hospitalized patients, thus ranking 4th after Hypertension, various myocardiopathies, and valvulopathies. These patients are from a rural background in 65.21 p. cent of the cases. Chronic bronchitis, 4 p. cent of the cases, and bronchial asthma, 27 p. cent of the cases, represent the main causes. An important factor is that all patients were hospitalized with heart failure, at different stages of NYAH.