Abstract

Ouédraogo SM, Djibril MA, IBA BA Josaphat , Kyelem CG, OUILY S, Ouedraogo M,Millogo A, Drabo YJ

Patients admitted to the internal medicine differ from one country to another because of the specificity of each department. To determine the epidemiological, diagnostic and evolutionary pathologies during hospitalization in internal medicine, we carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study over a period of three years from reviews of medical records of patients admitted to the internal medicine department of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire SOURO SANOU (CHU SS), Bobo-Dioulasso, BURKINA FASO. 5362 patients were involved. The average age was 43.10 ± 12.2 years, with a sex ratio of 1.16: 1. The majority of our patients had a low socio-economic standard of living. HIV/AIDS was the most common infection with an admission rate of 24%. The cure rate was 53.9% and the overall mortality rate 33.3%. This mortality was dominated by HIV/AIDS (27.8%). The Early mortality rate was 37.4% (<3 days). Despite the epidemiological transition characterized by the emergence of cardiometabolic diseases, HIV infection remains responsible for a high mortality in our context.