abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been shown that colorectal carcinoma is increasing in incidence in African countries. This could be due to change in life style. Molecular pathogenesis of colorectal cancer commonly involves mutation in p53 gene which leads to expression of p53 protein in tumor cells. Expression of p53 protein has bee...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Rambau PF,Odida M,Wabinga H

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is a well known cause of infertility. Endometriosis of the appendix is a very rare condition. To highlight this rare entity, we are reporting a case of a young lady who was admitted with recurrent attacks of lower abdominal pain associated with primary infertility. Preoperative diagnosis was acute append...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Al Oulaqi NS,Hefny AF,Joshi S,Salim K,Abu-Zidan FM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oro-Pharyngeal Candidiasis (OPC) continues to be considered the most common opportunistic fungal disease in HIV/AIDS patients globally. Azole antifungal agent has become important in the treatment of mucosal candidiasis in HIV patients. Presently, antifungal drug resistance is fast becoming a major problem p...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Enwuru CA,Ogunledun A,Idika N,Enwuru NV,Ogbonna F,Aniedobe M,Adeiga A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Snoring is a common sleep problem with significant public health concerns. Studies have characterized this in most developed countries. Hitherto there have been no published studies on this subject in Nigeria. OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence and correlates of snoring in addition to morbidity in an ...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Adewole OO,Adeyemo H,Ayeni F,Anteyi EA,Ajuwon ZO,Erhabor GE,Adewole TT

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-traumatic perforation of the small bowel is an uncommon serious complication associated with high morbidity and mortality. Diseases that cause small bowel perforation vary in different areas of the world. OBJECTIVE:To highlight difficulties in the diagnosis and management of non-traumatic perforation of...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Eid HO,Hefny AF,Joshi S,Abu-Zidan FM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stigmatization and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS has a negative impact on the global efforts to control the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Due to fear of stigmatization and discrimination, many people are reluctant to undergo voluntary counseling and testing, infected individuals are often unwilling to d...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Bassey EA,Abasiubong F,Ekanem U,Abasiatai AM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Honey is an ancient remedy for the treatment of infected wounds, which has recently been 'rediscovered' by the medical profession. The use to which honey is put in medical care is increasing daily with many authors pointing out its importance and role in wound care. There have been reports that honey contain...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Olaitan PB,Adeleke OE,Ola IO

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to introduce and integrate the discipline of family medicine in sub-Saharan Africa have remained slow due to failure to understand what role and benefit such physicians can play in the existing health care systems in the region. An attempt is made here to explain reasons for this trend and suggest ways to over...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Ssenyonga R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effectiveness of Botulinum toxin injection in the treatment of anal fissure. METHODS:38 patients (22 males, 16 females; mean age (SD) of 33.3 (8.3) years) who have presented to Surgical Outpatient Clinic at Al Ain Hospital, United Arab Emirates, with anal fissure in the period between June 2...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Radwan MM,Ramdan K,Abu-Azab I,Abu-Zidan FM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Standardised measuring instruments are increasingly used in psychiatric research cross-culturally. These instruments are considered to be culturally equivalent when all forms of biases, or social norms specific to the culture of origin, have been removed. OBJECTIVES:To describe the qualitative process of se...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Smit J,van den Berg CE,Bekker LG,Seedat S,Stein DJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gunshot injuries were rare in Calabar before the Nigerian civil war. This has changed in subsequent years and has reached a near epidemic proportion in the last three years. These are caused by civil violence, police brutality and armed robberies. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the incidence, pattern and causes of g...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Udosen AM,Etiuma AU,Ugare GA,Bassey OO

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) diseases is often made on clinical grounds alone in Nigeria due to lack of endoscopic facilities. The validity of using such diagnosis is presently unknown. OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to determine: age and sex distribution of patients presenting for UGI endoscopy; pa...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Agbakwuru EA,Fatusi AO,Ndububa DA,Alatise OI,Arigbabu OA,Akinola DO

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurologic infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality especially worldwide but much more in the African continent. The frequency of the different types of neurologic infections and their mortality in this part of Nigeria is not known. OBJECTIVES:To review cases admitted into the main terti...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Chapp-Jumbo EN

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are limited reports on HIV-1 RNA load, CD4+ T-lymphocytes and antibody responses in relation to disease progression in HIV-1 infected untreated children in Africa. METHODS:To describe the relationships between these parameters, we conducted a longitudinal cohort study involving 51 perinatally HIV-1 in...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Ochieng W,Ogoyi D,Mulaa FJ,Ogola S,Musoke R,Otsyula MG

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis is one of the causes of granulomatous disease within the anorectal region. The clinical features, which include symptoms and signs of anal pain or discharge, multiple or recurrent fistula in ano and inguinal lymphadinopathy, are not characteristically distinct from other anal lesions. It is also...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Gupta PJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Uganda, morbidity and mortality among adolescent mothers and their children are high. Social factors behind this problem need to be better understood. OBJECTIVE:To explore problems that pregnant adolescents face in order to design appropriate policies and interventions. METHODS:This was a descriptive st...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Atuyambe L,Mirembe F,Johansson A,Kirumira EK,Faxelid E

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an inbred Tunisian family, in which the proband manifested signs of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, subtotal amelia, scoliosis and left renal agenesis. Two other family members had the full clinical criteria of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, characterized by deficient sweat glands, hypodontia, hypopla...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Al Kaissi A,Ben Chehida F,Nassib N,Safi H,Djnziri M,Ben Ghachem M,Gharbi H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV/AIDS epidemic and sexual assault have emerged as the most serious public health problems in South Africa. The country has about 5-million HIV infected individuals. About a million women are raped every year. OBJECTIVES:To study the incidence of HIV infection in victims of sexual assaults. DESIGN:This i...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Meel BL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:South Africa has endorsed a World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution calling for control of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). In Cape Town, services and housing that exist in old-established suburbs should minimise the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections, even when residents are poor. Where families...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Adams VJ,Markus MB,Adams JF,Jordaan E,Curtis B,Dhansay MA,Obihara CC,Fincham JE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The utilisation of ethnobotanical indigenous knowledge is vital in male sexual reproductive health care delivery in western Uganda. Reproductive health care is the second most prevalent health care problem in Africa. However, this concept of reproductive health care has been focusing mainly on women disregar...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Kamatenesi-Mugisha M,Oryem-Origa H

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is still a commonly used investigation in the evaluation of the female genital tract and the main indication for HSG is infertility. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to find the pathology detected at HSG in patients with infertility in our setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Kiguli-Malwadde E,Byanyima RK

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The morbid effects of urinary bilharziasis are becoming more evident with the advent of sophisticated diagnostics such as ultrasound. However, such diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium morbidity is often hampered by lack of funds, proper equipment, or training. OBJECTIVE:We performed a cross-sectional inves...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Brouwer KC,Munatsi A,Ndhlovu PD,Wagatsuma Y,Shiff CJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:IMCI was launched in Uganda in June 1995 and has so far been implemented in most districts. However, reports indicate that counselling is poorly performed and that health providers find IMCI counselling the most difficult component to implement. OBJECTIVES:The study was carried out to assess IMCI-trained he...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Karamagi CA,Lubanga RG,Kiguli S,Ekwaru PJ,Heggenhougen K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review of recent advances in nutrition, we shall follow the 'life cycle' with special attention to maternal and foetal nutrition, linear growth, and nutritional assessment. We also consider nutrition, infection and micronutrients, and recent concepts of the pathophysiology and management of protein energy maln...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Duggan MB

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The concept of pharmaceutical care is neither well developed nor adequately documented in Uganda. OBJECTIVES:This study is therefore an attempt to identify and quantify the various service components of community pharmacy practice in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. SETTING:Two pharmacies operating retail o...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Anyama N,Adome RO

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of tuberculosis in children is difficult particularly in HIV infected children. The poor outcome following antituberculosis treatment usually reported in HIV infected children might be due, in part, to other HIV-related chronic diseases wrongly diagnosed as TB. OBJECTIVE:The study examines the...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Kiwanuka JP

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, there is renewed interest in the role community participation can play in Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes such as the delivery of effective anti-TB treatment to patients in high-burden settings. OBJECTIVES:To explore the feasibility of community participation in a high-burden Tuberculosis Co...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Kironde S,Kahirimbanyi M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many developing countries increasingly recognize and acknowledge family planning as a critical part of socio-economic development. However, with few health dollars to go around, countries tend to provide essential drugs for curative care, rather than for family planning products. Donors have historically pro...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Chandani Y,Breton G

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a 43-year-old female patient who presented with severe dizziness, neck pain and headache. Clinical examination revealed diplopia with a horizontal gaze. Plain skull radiographs showed an enlarged sella turcica with no abnormal intracraial calcifications. Pre and post contrast axial and post cont...

journal_title：African health sciences

authors： Luutu I

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00