%0 Journal Article
%T Epidemiological and Diagnostic Features of Non-Traumatic Gonalgia in Adults in Bouake (Ivory Coast): About 140 Patients
%A Kouakou Ehaulier Soh Christian Louis
%A Sougu¨¦ Charles
%A Yao Konan Joe Clauvis
%A Traore Aissata
%A Koffi Joseph Kan Enock
%A Goua Jean Jacques
%A Same Bebey Francine
%A Goupille Phillipe
%A Daboiko Jean Claude Felix
%J Open Journal of Rheumatology and Autoimmune Diseases
%P 78-87
%@ 2164-005X
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojra.2023.134008
%X <b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Background:</span></b><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> Non traumatic gonalgia is the second most common reason for rheumatology
consultations and accounted for 15.6% of rheumatological disorders in Abidjan. </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Objective: </span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">The aim of this work was to study the epidemiological and diagnostic features
of non-traumatic gonalgia (NTG) in a black adult population from sub-Saharan Africa. </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Patients and Methods: </span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">This was a five-year retrospective descriptive study
(January 2014 to December 2018) of black sub-Saharan African adult patients with
non traumatic gonalgia seen in the rheumatology department of the Bouake University
Hospital in C<span style=\"text-wrap:nowrap;\">&amp;#244;</span>te d¡¯Ivoire. </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Results:</span></b></span><b><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span></b><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Of 2198 patients seen for rheumatological conditions,
140 had non traumatic gonalgia (6.4%). The mean age of patients was 56.13 ¡À 13.3
years (extremes 20 and 87 years), and the sex ratio was 0.43 (42 men and 98 women).
Gonalgia without swelling was observed in 33.6% of cases. Symptoms were predominantly
progressive (97.1%), chronic (82.1%) and bilateral (50%). The causes of TNM were
gonarthrosis (85%), septic arthritis (7.1%), reactive arthritis (2.9%), gout (2.9%),
rheumatoid arthritis (1.4%) and chondrocalcinosis (0.7%). Gonarthrosis (119/140)
was bilateral in 65 patients, bi- or tri-compartmental in 83, radiographic stage
(Kellgren and Lawrence) III in 80 and IV in 15. A germ was isolated in two cases
of septic arthritis (methicillin-sensitive </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Staphylococcus aureus </span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">and </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Streptococcus
pneumoniae</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">). </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Conclusion: </span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">GNT is common in rheumatology practice in Bouake,
and mainly affects women in their fifties. It is most often a chronic bilateral
gonalgia, with gonarthrosis as the main etiology.</span></span>
%K Non-Traumatic Gonalgia
%K Gonarthrosis
%K Bouake
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=128884