[Summary Of Admissions To The Bamako Dermatology Hospital]

It was to take stock of the dermatological conditions managed within the hospital over a period of five years.

Retrospective and descriptive study performed from January 2015 to December 2019 at the Bamako Dermatology Hospital, based on the records of patients received in consultation.

During the period, 6,322 new consultations were recorded. The mean age was 42 ± 12.5 years with extremes of two months and 82 years. The sex ratio was 0.6. The majority of our patients (76.1%) came directly from home. Socio-professionally, the patients were mainly peasants (45%), housewives (23.9%) and workers (12%). Among the 6,322 consultants, 27.1% were hospitalized. In terms of diagnosis, skin conditions were dominated by infections (56.1%), followed by allergies (15.4%); system diseases (12.0%); genetic dermatoses (7.5%) and tumor dermatoses (5.2%). The average length of hospital stay was 46 ± 18.7 days in adults and 21 ± 11.6 days in children.

This study made it possible to identify the skin conditions subject to consultation in dermatology which are dominated by infections and allergies.