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Serum lactate and phosphate as biomarkers of intestinal ischaemia among patients with mechanical intestinal obstruction in Mulago Hospital.
(Makerere University, 2012-05)
Background: Intestinal ischaemia is a common complication of intestinal obstruction and arises from impaired perfusion of the supplying mesenteric blood vessels or from direct constriction of the intestines. The resultant ...
Cholelithiasis among children with sicle cell anaemia at Mulago Hospital.
(Makerere University, 2012-07)
BACKGROUND: Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA) is the most severe and commonest inherited form of haemoglobinopathy in Africa. It has been associated with many complications, including cholelithiasis. Cholelithiasis in SCA has been ...
Status and factors affecting utilisation of sanitation facilities in primary schools in Agago District
(Makerere University, 2012-09)
Background: Access to sanitation facilities is still a big challenge in developing countries including Uganda where poor sanitation and hygiene has long been recognized as a major Public Health concern. This study was ...
Late age at first child birth as a risk factor of breast cancer among Ugandan women at Mulago Hospital: A case control study.
(2012-05)
Background
Breast Cancer in Uganda is the third commonest cancer in women after cancer of the cervix and Kaposis sarcoma.
The incidence of Breast Cancer in Uganda has nearly tripled from 11:100,000 in 1961 to 31:100,000 ...
Umbilical cord sepsis among neonates admitted to Mulago Hospital: Bacterial aetiology, prevalence and immediate outcome
(Makerere University, 2012-07)
Background: Uganda is one of the ten countries with the highest under five mortality rate
globally. Progress of the fourth Millennium Development Goal is currently hampered by the slow decline in neonatal mortality rate ...
Molecular epidemiology of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in patients with surgical site infections at Mulago Hospital, Kampala – Uganda
(Makerere University, 2012-06)
Background:
Surgical site infections (SSI) are globally the third most common type of nosocomial infections with Staphylococcus aureus being the most common causative agent. SSI are difficult to treat and are associated ...
Assessment of availability and quality of health services in Secondary Schools in Nebbi District
(Makerere University, 2012-10)
Introduction: Health is among the issues that determine the performance of a child at school. Children are vulnerable to communicable diseases, injuries, social problems and negative lifestyles which affect their physical ...
Efficacy and safety of antenatal dexamethasone in reducing respiratory distress among late preterms in Mulago Hospital: a randomized controlled trial.
(Makerere University, 2012-05)
Introduction:
Late preterm infants, who were previously thought to be as physiologically and metabolically mature as term infants, are now known to be at a higher risk of morbidity and mortality.
Respiratory distress is ...
Comparison of intralesional bleomycin to intralesional triamcinolone in the symptomatic control of keloids in patients seen at Mulago Hospital Plastic Surgery Unit: A randomized, single blinded clinical trail
(Makerere University, 2012)
Introduction: Keloids are raised skin lesions that develop from poor scar formation and extend beyond the original wound margin. They are dermal fibroproliferative disorders unique to humans that occur following trauma, ...
Toxicity evaluation of the methanolic crude plant extract from Ipomoea Alba in rats
(Makerere University, 2012-01)
Background: Ipomoea alba plays a significant role as a medicinal plant in the treatment of abdominal pains, syphilitic sores, irregular menstruations, burns and tumors, However little is still known about its toxicity. ...