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Echocardiographic Patterns Of Juvenile Rheumatic Heart Disease At The Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
(University of NairobiDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2005-10)Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676-00202 Nairobi, Kenya. OBJECTIVE: To describe the echocardiographic features of children with rheumatic heart ... -
Editorial in You Are Not Rejected
(University of Nairobi, 2010) -
Entering sex work in the informal urban settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
(African Wildlife Foundation, NairobiDepartment of Community Health, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)Female sex work has long been recognized as an important factor in the urban sub-Saharan Africa HIV/AIDS pandemic, and in some cities remains a driving force for HIV transmission. However, despite a long history of ... -
Environmental Effects on Some Resin/ionomer Dental Restoratives
(Department of Conservative and Prosthetic Dentistry, 1998) -
The Epidemiology of cancer in Kenya with special reference to chronic myeloid leukaemia
(University of Nairobi,Faculty of Medicine, 2007) -
Epilepsy
(AMREFSchool of Medicine, 2006) -
Essential oil bearing plants from Kenya:
(School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2009)Essential oils are aromatic volatiles that are recovered from different plant tissues using a variety of distillation and extraction technologies. Kenya, being a country with diverse plant genetic resources, is endowed ... -
Ethnic Differences In Thiopurine Methyltransferase Pharmacogenetics: Evidence For Allele Specificity In Caucasian And Kenyan Subjects.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Biochemistry, 1999-12)Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) degrades 6-mercaptopurine, azathioprine and 6-thioguanine which are commonly used in the treatment of autoimmune diseases, leukaemia and organ transplantation. TPMT activity is polymorphic ... -
An Evaluation Of Acute Pain Management On Postoperative Patients In Surgical, Obstetrics And Private Wing Wards In Kenyatta National Hospital (knh)
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Despite major advances in the knowledge and development of efficient techniques for pain control, many patients still suffer from modest to severe pain following surgery. Indeed,a pain audit conducted at KNH (2006) ... -
Factor analysis in relation to survival rate of proximal ART restorations in primary molars
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Feeding the low birthweight infant in a resource-restricted environment.
(University of Nairobi, 2008)This chapter discusses the provision of intravenous crystalloids to support the nutritional needs of low birth weight (LBW) infants, the optimization of full enteral feeding, and the value of breast milk fortification and ... -
Female Genital Cutting among the Somali of Kenya and Management of its Complications
(University of Nairobi, 2005-02)The Somali community living in Kenya (and in their native Somalia) has practised the severest formof female genital cutting (FGC), infibulation, for centuries. To understand the context within which the practice takes ... -
Guidelines for Anti Retroviral therapy in Kenya
(Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2001) -
Guidelines for the rational use of non - opioid analgesics in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2003) -
Guidelines on the management of Opportunistic infections in HIV
(Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2001) -
Handbook On Paediatric Aids In Africa For Medical Students, Doctors And Primary Care Workers
(University of NairobiDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2011) -
The histopathological patterns of skin conditions as seen at Kenyatta national hospital Kenya, over a ten year period
(2012)The thigh is a common seat for tumours. Many histopathological types can arise there. Management challenges begin from the clinical diagnosis, to the surgery and ultimately the oncological therapy be it medical or radiation ... -
HIV/AIDS in Kenya
(Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, 2004)MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. The IFN-y enzyme-linked immunospot (ELI-Spot) assay is often used to map HIV-specific CD8 T-cell responses. We compared overlapping 15-mer pools with optimized ... -
HIV/AIDS in Kenya – An update. AIDS Vaccines
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 2004)