Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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Relative merits of ultrasonography, computed tomography and cholangiography in patients of surgical obstructive jaundice.Hepatogastroenterology.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1998)Fifty consecutive patients with surgical obstructive jaundice were evaluated prospectively with ultrasonography (US), computed tomographic scans (CT scan) and cholangiography-percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) ... -
Edge Strength Of Resin-composite Margins.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Conservative And Prosthetic Dentistry, 2008)OBJECTIVES: Marginal integrity is a major clinical problem in restorative dentistry. The aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of an edge strength measurement device in an in vitro test to determine the force ... -
Portal hypertensive gastropathy in noncirrhotic patients. The effect of lienorenal shunts.
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Evaluation of Acute Pelvic/Lower abdominal pain in Women
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Hepatitis E virus infection: where are we?
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Mechanisms behind hepatitis B virus persistence: the search continues
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Role of abdominal ultrasound in evaluation of children with suspected upper gastrointestinal disease.
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Diagnostic Imaging And Radiation Medicine, 2012)Objectives: To evaluate the sonographic abdominal findings in children with suspected upper gastrointestinal disease, establish indications for sonography and show the gastrointestinal disease patterns that can be evaluated ... -
2,6-Dichloro-phenol indophenol prevents switch-over of electrons between the cyanide-sensitive and -insensitive pathway of the mitochondrial electron transport chain in the presence of inhibitors.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)To evolve a simple oxygen electrode-based method to estimate alternative respiration, one needs to develop a procedure to prevent switch-over of electrons to either pathway upon inhibition by cyanide or salicylhydroxamic ... -
An Analysis Of The Pattern Of Findings On The Mediastinum In The Computerised Tomography Chest In Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Diagnostic Imaging And Radiation Medicine, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to assess the pattern of findings in the Mediastinum in Computersied Tomography chest based on a study of major hospitals in Kenya. CT Scan chest was performed in patients suspected to have ... -
Sonographic appearances and percutaneous management of primary tuberculous liver abscess
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)Primary tuberculous liver abscesses are rare. We report on 3 patients who presented with a nonresolving abscess in the liver. Clinical presentation and sonographic findings in each case were nonspecific. A diagnosis of ... -
Is protein-deficient diabetes mellitus a pancreatitis?
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)BACKGROUND: Malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus is a distinct clinical entity subdivided into protein-deficient diabetes mellitus (PDDM) and fibrocalculus pancreatic diabetes (FCPD). Whereas FCPD has obvious pancreatitis ... -
Portal systemic shunting of insulin does not lead to insulin resistance in patients with extrahepatic portal vein obstruction.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)There is no clear relation between portal systemic shunting, reduced hepatic insulin extraction leading to an increased systemic delivery of insulin, and, resultant peripheral hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance. ... -
Bancroftian filariasis in 12 villages in Kwale district, Coast province, Kenya - variation in clinical and parasitological patterns.
(University of NairobiInstitute Of Tropical And Infectious Diseases, 2004)As part of a larger study on the effects of permethrin-impregnated bednets on the transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti, subjects from 12 villages in the Coastal province of Kenya, south of Mombasa, were investigated. The ... -
Hepatology in India–sailing without a mast.Trop Gastroenterol
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999) -
Management of hepatocellular carcinoma: many ways to skin a cat.
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Acute hepatic failure in India: a perspective from the East
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2000)Acute hepatic failure (AHF) in India almost always presents with encephalopathy within 4 weeks of the onset of acute hepatitis. Further subclassification of AHF into hyperacute, acute and subacute forms may not be necessary ... -
The repellent and antifeedant activity of Myrica Gale oil against Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its enhancement by the addition of salicyluric acid.
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HPV Infection and EGFR Activation/Alteration in HIV - Infected East African Patients with Conjunctival Carcinoma
(University of NairobiInstitute Of Tropical And Infectious Diseases, 2010)Background: There has been substantial growth in the numbers of patients with conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma infected with HIV in East Africa. The natural history of the conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma appears ... -
Activated protein C resistance in Budd-Chiari syndrome
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2000) -
Renal function and structure in subacute hepatic failure
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 2001)BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Subacute hepatic failure (SHF) is a fatal complicaton of acute viral hepatitis. Renal failure has been implicated as the main cause of death in this disease. However, renal functional and structural ...
