Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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JOCommunity-acquired bacterial infections and their susceptibility in Nairobi EAMJ 74: 166-70, 1977
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Acute Leukaemia in pregnancy -A case report from Kenyatta National Hospital. E.A. Med. J. Vol. 53 No. 11, Nov. 1976
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Fibronectin in acute and subacute hepatic failure
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1989)The mean plasma fibronectin (FN) concentrations in 30 patients with fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) and in 10 patients with subacute hepatic failure (SAHF) were 111.2 +/- 70 and 123.5 +/- 46.5 micrograms/ml, respectively, ... -
Ultrasonography in portal hypertension: a sensitive noninvasive test to demonstrate portal-vascular anatomy
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1989)The accuracy of ultrasonography (US) in delineating the portal vascular anatomy was assessed clinically by the clinician in 30 cases of portal hypertension due to noncirrhotic portal fibrosis and extra hepatic portal venous ... -
Accuracy of abdominal ultrasonography and the role of a second investigation in surgical obstructive jaundice.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1989)The diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography (US) was evaluated in delineating the site and cause of biliary obstruction in 59 patients of surgical obstructive jaundice (SOJ). A final analysis of the ultrasonographic data ... -
Ultrasonography in portal hypertension
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Needle aspiration of amoebic liver abscess
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1989)OBJECTIVE–To determine the value of needle aspiration in uncomplicated amoebic liver abscess. DESIGN–Randomised case-control study with a minimum follow up of one year, comparing patients treated with drugs alone with those ... -
Hepatitis C virus antibody in acute and chronic liver diseases in India
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Alcohol is not a desirable sclerosant
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1990) -
Hepatitis B virus replication in patients with chronic liver diseases
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1990)One hundred and seventy five subjects with chronic liver diseases which included patients with chronic active hepatitis (90), liver cirrhosis (31) and asymptomatic hepatitis B carriers (54), were included in the study. ... -
Ultrasonography in gastroenterology: stethoscope of a gastroenterologist.
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Significance of anti-pre-S antibodies in patients with fulminant hepatic failure
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1990)Anti-pre-S antibody was tested in 38 sera from patients with fulminant hepatitis (positive for HBsAg and/or IgM anti-HBc) using a specific solid phase enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Anti-pre-S activity was ... -
Clinical profile of multiple amoebic liver abscesses
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1990)Of 70 consecutive patients with amoebic liver abscess admitted over a 3 year period, 15 (21.4%) had multiple abscesses. This condition, like solitary abscess, was a disease of the 2nd to 5th decade with a male preponderance. ... -
Prediction of severity of acute pancreatitis.
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Intragastric pH and control of peptic ulcer bleeding
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1991) -
Hospital malnutrition: a prospective evaluation of patients during hospitalisation
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1991)Nutritional Status of 89 patients was assessed during their course of hospitalisation. All patients consumed diet deficit in protein and calories. The mean daily intake of calories was 819 +/- 425 Kcals and of protein was ... -
The role of sustained achlorhydria in bleeding peptic ulcer.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1991)Twenty-five patients with bleeding peptic ulcers were randomized to receive either ranitidine 50 mg 8 hourly i.v. (control group) or a continuous nasogastric antacid infusion at the rate of 0.5 ml/min along with an i.v. ... -
Constrictive pericarditis masquerading as Budd-Chiari syndrome
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1991)Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) and constrictive pericarditis (CP) share many common clinical features. Over the last year we encountered three patients in whom CP clinically mimicked BCS. Two of the three did not even have ... -
Colon carcinoma presenting as a fever of unknown origin.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1991) -
Case report: unusual CT appearances in a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1991)We describe a case of Budd-Chiari Syndrome due to hepatic venous blockage in which there were multiple space-occupying lesions on CT simulating tumour deposits. Ultrasound directed liver biopsy and laparoscopy proved these ...
