Low prevalence of malnutrition in a rural Nigerian community.

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：: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：:This is a retrospective case series of 233 spinal injury patients admitted to the orthopaedic ward of BPKIHS from May 1997 to April 2001. The inpatient records were analysed. In all, 40.3% of spinal injuries resulted from falls from trees while cutting leaves for fodder, and 27.9% resulted from falls from first/second...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Lakhey S,Jha N,Shrestha BP,Niraula S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-typhoidal salmonella (NTS) infections are severe, invasive and recurrent in the HIV-infected adult, and NTS are the commonest cause of hospital admission with bacteraemia in sub-Saharan Africa. NTS bacteraemia typically presents in patients with HIV/AIDS once the CD4 count falls below 200 cells/microL. In-patient ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Kankwatira AM,Mwafulirwa GA,Gordon MA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the role of the Mini Mental State examination (MMSE) in detecting cognitive impairment in Nigerian epileptics. The performance of 65 epileptics on the MMSE was compared with that in 65 age- and education-matched controls. There were significantly more epileptics than controls with cognitive dysfunc...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Imam I,Ogunniyi A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is a great mimic of many diseases and may present a dilemma in diagnosis. Sebaceous cyst is the commonest swelling that occurs in the scrotal skin. We present a 23-year-old patient who presented with a painful hard scrotal skin nodule, clinically diagnosed to be an infected calcified sebaceous cyst, ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Joseph J,Menon A,Ramanathan R,Misra D,Rodrigues G

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:How traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in post-war Sierra Leone explain, handle and prevent postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) and their potential role in a better management of PPH to reduce maternal mortality in this low resource setting. METHODS:Semi-quantitative interviews about knowledge and measures in PPH...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Bräuer MD,Antón J,George PM,Kuntner L,Wacker J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of cutaneous amoebiasis which presented as malignant ulcers are reported. In non-healing ulcers in the perianal or gluteal region, the possibility of amoebiasis should be kept in mind, especially in the tropics. An immediate examination of the scraping from the ulcer is sufficient to confirm or rule out the ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Venkataramaiah NR,Reinaerts HH,Van Raalte JA,Shaba KJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weighing children is one of the simplest, cheapest, and quickest methods of assessing the nutritional status of children. Regular weighing of children and recording the results on growth charts can be used to monitor the growth pattern of individual children and may promote early detection and prevention of growth-fa...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Abel R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of glycated proteins, especially haemoglobins, is now a routine procedure for monitoring previous glycaemic control in diabetic patients in the developed world. Until recently, however, the assays were sophisticated and costly and, therefore, were only rarely used in developing countries. With easier and c...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Rahlenbeck SI

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:We report a 46-year-old woman presenting with leprosy, HIV and active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). It is advisable to screen for each one of TB, HIV and leprosy patients, especially when an extra feature emerges. Particularly in a leprosy case, if TB remains undiagnosed, the development of rifampicin resistance second...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Keragala B,Herath H,Janappriya G,Gunasekera CN

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis is the disease caused by the soil and water bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. Our study aimed to delineate its genitourinary manifestations. Over a 10-year period (2006-2016), 20 adults with culture-confirmed genitourinary melioidosis were identified. The patients were all men with a mean age of 45.3 ±...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Koshy M,Sadanshiv P,Sathyendra S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary small bowel volvulus is the commonest cause of intestinal obstruction in the Gorkha district of Nepal resulting in laparotomy. Yet, this problem is mentioned only briefly, if at all, in many standard textbooks of surgery. This paper presents details of the presentation, clinical findings, and surgical manageme...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Parkes G

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of tracheobronchial inhalation of a bead by a five-year-old girl in Djibouti. The bead was extracted using a Fogarty balloon catheter passed through the rigid bronchoscope without complication. This kind of accident is not exceptional and we discuss the management of such cases with limited diagnost...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Landy C,Massoure PL,Gauthier J,Eve O,Kaiser E

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty Shigella strains were isolated from bloody stools, of which 10 had been collected from children. Eighty per cent of the Shigella isolates were serogrouped as S. flexneri. All 20 Shigella strains were susceptible to gentamicin, nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. More than 80% were resistant to ampicillin, cotrimo...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Guyot A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tanzania, rural medical aides (RMA), mother and child health aides (MCHA) and health auxiliaries (HA) care for mothers of childbearing age and children under age 5. This paper presents data obtained at 2 district seminars on mother and child health held in June 1981 and June 1983 at which knowledge and skills of M...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： van Roosmalen J,van Roosmalen-Wiebenga MW

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendocrine tumours (NET) are rare. They usually arise from the gastrointestinal or bronchopulmonary systems. Most are discovered incidentally and the small bowel tumours pose special difficulty in detection and treatment. Primary mesenteric involvement is very rare. Here we report such a case with a liver metastas...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Agarwal A,Kaman L,Gupta A,Ramavath K,Vaiphei K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most growth monitoring programmes in developing countries have not been successful in reducing malnutrition. This is due, at least in part, to the exclusion of mothers from the process of growth monitoring. An essential requisite for greater participation is for mothers to understand the meaning of a growth chart. The...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sohal H,Wilkinson D,Morley D

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiology of diarrhoea with Cryptosporidium species and pathogenic bacteria has not been identified in the Ethiopian primary healthcare system. Thus, antibiotic consumption for unconfirmed pathogenic diarrhoea is not infrequent. A total of 344 children aged <5 years with diarrhoea were included in the present stud...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Abera B,Hailu T,Beza L,Mulu W,Yizengaw E,Kibret M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ophthalmic presentation of relapse in a patient with human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV1) associated adult T-cell lymphoma leukaemia is described. Epidemiology, clinical features and therapeutic options are briefly reviewed. Antenatal screening and inclusion of HTLV1 in the differential diagnosis of inflammat...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Charles KS,Leelah N,Murray DC

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients (34 limbs) with compressive peroneal neuropathy induced by prolonged squatting of more than 5 h during harvesting season were treated conservatively and followed-up to an average of 28.2 months. A marked preponderance of involvement of the left side was noticed. We attribute this to the intermittent ex...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Sangwan SS,Marya KM,Kundu ZS,Yadav V,Devgan A,Siwach RC

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe meconium aspiration syndrome is difficult to manage and has a high mortality in developing countries. Guidelines are available for the initial management. If the infant has been born through particulate meconium and is not vigorous, an inspection of the vocal cords by laryngoscopy is recommended. If meconium is...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Green DA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information on a country-wide basis in sub-Saharan Africa about how the diagnosis of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is made. A country-wide cross-sectional study was carried out in 40 non-private hospitals in Malawi which register and treat (TB) patients in order to assess diagnostic practices in ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Harries AD,Hargreaves NJ,Kwanjana JH,Salaniponi FM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate models of nursing and nursing education based on the western medical model and medical education impede the development of adequate national health service and primary health services. Nurses are an untapped resource for primary health care (PHC) along with non-nurse PHC workers. They have the potenti...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Hammond M,Mazibuko R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and three patients with intestinal gangrene were managed in Ile-Ife, Nigeria over a 10-year period. The overall mortality in the series was 25.2%. Strangulated hernias were responsible for 65 cases (63%), intussusception 20.4%, adhesions 11.7% and volvulus 2.9%. Avoidable deaths resulted from anastomotic b...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Fashakin EO

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In pregnancy drug treatment presents a special concern due potential teratogenic effects and physiologic alterations in mother. This retrospective study was performed to evaluate the drug prescribing pattern in pregnancy among pregnant women in a secondary care hospital in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This ...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Das S,Winston A B,Sukumaran D,Kumar A,Fx MS,Prasad J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 40 women, mean corpuscular volume (MCV) values in second and third trimesters were compared between women who were iron deficient and those who were iron replete. There was no difference in the two groups. Hence reduced MCV seen in iron deficiency anaemia cannot be relied upon as an effective...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Mukhopadhyay A,Bhatla N,Kriplani A,Saxena R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most snakebite victims in low- and middle-income countries continue to seek many forms of first aid therapy before reaching hospital, the commonest being the application of a tourniquet. Our study looked at a prospective cohort of 382 such patients to ascertain the association of pre-hospital care with clinical outcom...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Singaravelu KP,Pandit VR,Chinnakali P,Bammigatti C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is an ancient human scourge that continues to be an important public health problem worldwide. As impaired immunity is closely associated with the pathogenesis of TB, an increase in the incidence of the disease among patients with cancer is anticipated. A total of 20 cases of haematological cancers co-exi...

journal_title：Tropical doctor

authors： Omoti CE,Olu-Eddo AN,Nwannadi AI

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00