Health care in China: the experts take command.

abstract：:The effect of noradrenaline (8 mg in 100 ml cold saline) gastric lavage was compared with that of cold saline alone in 42 patients with upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in a prospective, randomized, double blind study. Fifty three per cent (11/21) of the patients given noradrenaline stopped bleeding within two hours...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sarin SK,Nundy S,Tandon BN

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 60% of births in the Mseleni area of South Africa's Kwa Zulu province were home deliveries in 1984. Home deliveries in the area are generally attended by members of the pregnant woman's family. If difficulties are encountered during labor, the family will call upon a midwife, or Traditional Birth Atten...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Jepson AP,MacDonald LD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most severe complications of typhoid enteritis is perforation of ileal ulcerations. The typically high mortality rates from these perforations are in part due to extremely limited supportive care in hospitals in typhoid endemic areas. In the setting of a rural African hospital, this study demonstrated a dec...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Mock C,Visser L,Denno D,Maier R

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most African district hospitals there are no separate facilities for psychiatric patients. Aformer general medical officer describes how a ward for these patients was set up at a rural district hospital in Zimbabwe using the already available resources. The effects on the psychiatric care at the hospital and the di...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： van der Heide DH,Gernaat HB

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report what we believe is the first case in Gujarat of melioidosis in a 67-year-old man. Awareness of this disease is limited, especially in areas supposed not to be endemic. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Savaj P,Shaw T,Munim FC,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodevelopmental abilities of 33 very-low-birthweight (VLBW) Trinidadian children and randomly selected matched pairs of classmates who were of normal birth weight were tested in 1998 at ages 68-88 months, using the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. The 1 min Apgar score was significantly lower in the VLBW ch...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ali Z,Ramcharan J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tungiasis is highly prevalent in resource-poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa, but studies among schoolchildren are scanty. We assessed prevalence, parasite load and clinical aspects of tungiasis in schoolchildren in south-western Nigeria. A total of 545 schoolchildren was examined. Of these, 133 (24.4%; 95% CI, 20...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ugbomoiko US,Ariza L,Babamale AO,Heukelbach J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the extent of Togolese users' knowledge of the health risks associated with the regular use of bleaching agents. A massive underestimation of some of the main risks was discovered. The more frequent the use of bleaching agents, the higher the underestimation. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Kpanake L,Sastre MT,Sorum PC,Mullet E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric illnesses are a significant cause of morbidity all over the world. In India many people with mental disorders are unable to access psychiatric care for a variety of reasons. This article describes the successful management of a person with schizophrenia in the community through a primary care team in liais...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： John SM,Venkatesan S,Tharyan A,Bhattacharji S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaemia in infancy is a very common clinical problem in the tropics and will continue to be common while infectious disease and poor nutrition prevail. In the diagnosis of anaemia in a child the clinician must expect a number of factors to be involved. On the basis of clinical features it is possible to arrive at a wo...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Wright SG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria has emerged as a major public health problem worldwide. Complications are commonly seen in Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) and Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) infection, but due to Plasmodium ovale (P. ovale) infection is rarely described in literature. Here we report a case of severe disease due to P. ovale...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Tomar LR,Giri S,Bauddh NK,Jhamb R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a patient with cryptococcal meningitis with CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia and no evidence of HIV infection. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Augusto E,Raguenaud ME,Kim C,Mony M,Isaakidis P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External ophthalmomyiasis is a superficial infestation of the eye tissues by the larvae or maggots of flies. External ophthalmomyiasis, caused by Oestrus ovis, is found occasionally in shepherding areas, but is rare in the cities of eastern China. We present a case of a 30-year-old man with complaints of a foreign bod...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Zhang A,Nie Q,Song J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured questionnaire was administered to 50 medical patients, 50 surgical patients and 50 staff members at Vila Central Hospital, Vanuatu. A similar study was conducted 10 years earlier. In the intervening decade, Vanuatu has seen unprecedented population growth, increasing expatriate numbers, and the introducti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Lai Y,Grace R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrub typhus, a re-emerging acute febrile zoonosis can present as an undifferentiated fever often complicated by potentially fatal systemic involvement. Acute pancreatitis is a rare complication of scrub typhus which can result in a marked elevation of serum lipase. We report three cases of scrub typhus who presented ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Bhargava A,Ali S,Rajeevan R,Udyavara R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A haemocholecyst is a clot-filled gallbladder caused by bleeding into its lumen. It is a rare entity with fewer than 50 cases reported in the English literature. Preoperative diagnosis is often not possible even with good quality cross-sectional imaging. Here, we present a case of a gallbladder mass, whose nature was ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ray S,Ghosh R,Khamrui S,Kumar Das A,Saha S,Kumar D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study reveals the seroprevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV in multi-transfused thalassemia major patients. Thirty-four out of 79 (43.0%) patients enrolled in the study serologically tested positive for hepatitis C (mean ± standard deviation age = 12 ± 4.1 years), four (5.1%) for hepatiti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Riaz H,Riaz T,Ullah F,Aziz S,Khan MU,Pervaiz R,Ejaz A,Hasan M,Moiz F,Naqvi SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histopathological examination of biopsies from 111 patients with clinically diagnosed leprosy was carried out in order to observe the clinico-histopathological correlation. Clinical diagnosis was based on Ridley and Jopling (R-J) classification and World Health Organization (WHO) classification. The concordance rate b...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Singh PA,Agarwal R,Misra V,Gupta SC,Bajaj AK

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In low-income countries, where surgical expertise and resources are limited, displaced supracondylar fractures of the distal humerus are routinely managed with traction or closed reduction and casting. This is in contrast to high-income nations, where percutaneous K-wire fixation forms the mainstay of treatment. The a...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Yeomans D,Graham SM,Mkandawire NC,Harrison WJ,Perry DC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tularaemia has become a public health threat in Turkey. Our aim was to examine the epidemiological characteristics of 154 tularaemia cases reported from Kayseri, Central Anatolia, between 2010 and 2017. Clinical diagnosis was confirmed by micro-agglutination test (≥1/160 titres). Most patients (56.5%) were residing in...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Borlu A,Benli AR,Doganay M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first recorded case of HIV-1 transmission via breast milk occurred in 1985. 1985 was also the year HIV-1 was first isolated in breast milk. In developed countries, many hospitals' special neonatal units no longer operated breast milk banks. National policies advised HIV-1 infected mothers to feed their babies b...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Broadhead RL

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of small bowel tuberculosis (SBTB) from Crohn's disease (CD) is a diagnostic challenge. We studied 52 patients with suspected SBTB or CD with terminal ileal involvement, who were prospectively enrolled. After confirming patency of the gastrointestinal tract, 26 patients underwent capsule endoscopy (CE)...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Rana SS,Sharma V,Sharma R,Nada R,Gupta R,Bhasin DK

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical observation shows that most of the patients with pleural effusion of undetermined aetiology in a Nigerian teaching hospital receive antiTB drug trials. This observation prompted the authors to evaluate the role of percutaneous needle pleural biopsy as a diagnostic tool in effusions of uncertain aetiology. Thi...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ezemba N,Eze JC,Anyanwu CH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is a common illness in developing nations. Tuberculous dactylitis is an unusual manifestation of tuberculous osteomyelitis seen predominantly in children. A woman presented with painless, fusiform swelling of multiple digits of the hand. Synovial biopsy revealed granulomatous inflammation and the pus smea...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Chrispal A,Prabhakar T,Booruga HK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease is a common childhood vasculitis. Fever and lymphadenopathy, at times, are the only clinical presentation of Kawasaki disease, which mimics infectious lymphadenitis, especially, when other features are yet to evolve. In such a scenario, ultrasonography of cervical lymph nodes can help to differentiate...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Patra PK,Banday AZ,Bhagat N,Vignesh P,Singh S

更新日期：2020-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of postoperative wound infection was found to be low at 1.12% overall in a prospective study. This was achieved by careful preoperative preparation, judicious use of cheap prophylactic antibiotics which are included in the WHO model list of essential drugs, and meticulous operative technique. ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Nasher AA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy remains an important public health and social issue in South Asia, particularly in India. Its presence in childhood is an immense social burden because of the associated disabilities and widely prevalent misconceptions regarding communicability and treatment potential. The prevalence of leprosy among children ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sachdeva S,Amin SS,Khan Z,Sharma PK,Bansal S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated pancreatic and peripancreatic nodal tuberculosis may mimic pancreatic malignancy and may result in unnecessary surgery. Being a treatable disease, it is desirable to diagnose this condition without a laparotomy. Pancreatic tuberculosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a peripancreatic mas...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ray S,Das K,Ghosh R

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal cocoon is a rare cause of bowel obstruction. The condition was first described three decades ago and is found mainly among adolescent females in tropical and sub-tropical countries. It is characterized by a thick fibrous membrane encapsulating the small intestines partially or completely. Patients present wi...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ibrahim NA,Oludara MA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac failure is a common medical presentation in Uganda. This study primarily focuses on the aetiology of heart failure in 65 adult patients and assesses the utility of echocardiography in a resource-limited setting. Our findings suggest that endomyocardial fibrosis is much less prevalent than previously described ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Ismail Y,Andia I,Byaruhanga S,Shaw MR,Mathieson PW,Wilde P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00