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En l'absence de directives nationales sur l'amputation non traumatique d'un membre inférieur, le registre national d'amputation de membre (RNA) a été lancé au Togo le 01/01/2023 dans le but d'améliorer les connaissances sur les amputations et les maladies artérielles périphériques qui en sont la cause principale.

Traumatic amputation of the penis is a rare but disabling condition that can occur during self-inflicted injury, felonious assault, accidental trauma, or circumcision. This report aims to access the cosmetic and functional results of a penile replantation without micro-anastomosis after a penile traumatic amputation during circumcision in a limited resource setting. A one-year-old child presented penile amputation located at 2mm below the neck of the glans penis during circumcision. We admitted the child to the theatre of the Campus Teaching Hospital of Lomé (Togo) 3 h after the trauma. Under general anaesthesia, we performed an end-to-end urethra, corpus spongiosum, corpora cavernosa, and skin to mucosa anastomosis. We positioned a Foley catheter for 12 days and established an anticoagulation treatment for a week. During the postoperative course, there was progressive necrosis of the skin and the glans mucosa. We performed debridement. The glans and corpora cavernosa were viable. Non-microsurgical anastomosis of the glans showed to preserve the cosmetic and genital function of the victim.

We herein report the morphology and photocatalytic properties of Co and Co3O4 nanoparticles synthesized using microwave and reductive chemical heating methods. The synthesized nano-scale particles were characterized using UV–visible (UV–Vis) absorption spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Photocatalytic degradation of murexide dye and erichrome blak-T (EBT) dye in wastewater in the presence of sunlight was investigated using the synthesized nanoparticles. Chemically synthesized Co-nanoparticles gave highest degradation efficiency (43.6%) towards murexide dye at 25 mg loading and 40 mins exposure time, while Co3O4nanoparticles (microwave synthesized) gave the highest degradation efficiency (39.4%) at 10 mg loading and 40 mins sunlight exposure time in EBT. A higher photodegradation efficiency is postulated at a longer exposure time under sunlight irradiation. The study therefore concluded that the microwave synthesized nanoparticles would be preferred for remediation of dyes containing wastewater since it is greener, faster to make, cheap and gave photocatalytic degradation efficiency that compared favourably with that of the chemical method.