Analysis of Presentations and Outcomes of Care of Children with Disorders of Sexual Development in a Nigerian Hospital.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the presentation, diagnosis, management, and short-term outcome of children with disorders of sexual development (DSD) in the context of multidisciplinary team care. DESIGN: Prospective descriptive study. SETTING: University Teaching Hospital. PARTICIPANTS: All children who presented with genital ambiguity. INTERVENTIONS AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Records of all patients diagnosed and managed for DSD between January 2011 and December 2016 were reviewed. The care pathway included clinical, laboratory, internal genitalia evaluation, and panel (including parents) meeting. RESULTS: Fifteen children presented with DSD at a median age of 20 months. Only 5/15 (33.3%) presented in the neonatal period. Ten of fifteen patients (66.7%) presented with genital ambiguity. Ovotesticular DSD was the most common diagnosis (9/15; 60%). Seven of the patients were genetically female (46, XX), 1 was genetically male (46, XY) and 1 without genetic diagnosis. Six patients were assigned male gender and they underwent male genitoplasty. Five of them had excision of Müllerian structures with gonadectomy. Three of fifteen patients (20%) were diagnosed as 46, XX DSD, at a median age of 7 years. All of them were due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia and underwent female genitoplasty. Two patients were diagnosed as XY, DSD. They were both raised as female at presentation and were reassigned male sex. Both had urethroplasty done. Four patients had postoperative urethrocutaneous fistula and 1 had partial wound dehiscence. The median follow-up period was 21 months (interquartile range, 2-26 months). CONCLUSION: The frequency of ovotesticular DSD is high in our setting. The decision of sex assignment was finally made at a median age of 7.5 months in most of our patients with satisfactory short-term surgical outcome.

Abdominal myomectomy: A retrospective review of determinants and outcomes of complications at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to describe the pattern, outcomes, and determinants of perioperative complications of abdominal myomectomy at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria. METHODS: This was a retrospective review of cases of abdominal myomectomy between January 2010 and December 2013. Data were obtained from ward and operating theatre case records and analysed using SPSS version 20. The continuous variables were analysed with Student's t-test. The categorical variables were analysed with the chi-square test. P-values of 0.05 or less was taken to be significant. RESULTS: Total sampling yielded 204 cases, of which 170 records (80%) were adequate for analysis. Using criteria developed by Garry et al., major and minor complications occurred in 43.6% and 32.9% of procedures, respectively, while 23.5% of the patients had no complications. The commonest complication was intraoperative haemorrhage requiring blood transfusion. Mean estimated blood loss was 630.88 ± 392.42 mL. There were no cases converted to hysterectomy, and no deaths were recorded. Uterine size equivalent to 16 weeks' gestation or more was significantly associated with heavier blood loss, blood transfusion, and fever (P = 0.034). Other significant determinants of major intraoperative haemorrhage with or without blood transfusion were menstrual flow of 6 days or more, preoperative anaemia, previous surgery, posterior incision, and surgery duration longer than 4 hours (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Outcome of abdominal myomectomy is generally favourable even if uterine size is greater than 16 weeks by palpation. Nevertheless, patients should be counselled preoperatively on the risk of blood loss and the possibility of blood transfusion.

Non-fistulous urinary leakage among women attending a Nigerian family planning clinic.

Urinary leakage is an important gynecological challenge, which has a substantial impact on quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and types of non-fistulous urinary leakage among women attending the family planning clinic of the University of Ilorin teaching hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria. The study was a cross-sectional study carried out between January 3 and April 25 2009. One hundred and two women experienced urinary leakage out of 333 women interviewed, giving a prevalence rate of 30.6%. Stress incontinence was the most common urinary leakage (prevalence rate 12.0%). This is followed by urge incontinence (10.8%), urinary incontinence (4.8%), and overflow incontinence (3.0%). None of the women afflicted sought medical help. Conclusively, this study has demonstrated that non-fistulous urinary leakage is a common problem among women of reproductive age in this environment.

Duration of labor with spontaneous onset at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Duration of labor varies from one pregnancy to another and a period of less than 12 hours is regarded as normal. Modern obstetric practice involves active management of labor with the aim of preventing prolonged labor and its sequelae. The main objective of this study was to determine and compare the average duration of labor of spontaneous onset between nulliparas (Po) and multiparas (P ≥ 1) and to determine factors affecting duration of labor. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a prospective study carried out between 15 May and 14 June 2004 at the Labor Ward of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria. Two hundred and thirty-eight women who satisfied the inclusion criteria were studied. The inclusion criteria were term pregnancy with vertex presentation, labor with spontaneous onset, live fetus at presentation and spontaneous vertex delivery. RESULTS: The mean ± SD admission-delivery interval in labor ward was shorter (3.77 ± 2.88 hours) among multiparas than that of nulliparas (5.00 ± 3.17 hours) (P = 0.235). The mean ± SD duration of labor (from the onset of labor to delivery) was shorter among multiparas (8.73 ± 4.17 hours) than that of nulliparas (11.23 ± 4.29 hours) (P = 0.426). The differences were not significant (t-test, P > 0.05). Maternal age and individual parity had significant correlation with the duration of labor in this study (Pearson correlation = -0.019, -0.027, respectively, P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Interestingly, duration of labor was not significantly different among multiparas and nulliparas although it was shorter. Correlation existed between duration of labor and maternal age and individual parity.