Background: The prevalence of diabetes is increasing worldwide and the burden is worse in the Sub-Saharan Africa where the health budgets are already constrained. It is well known that diabetes education is a pillar to ...
Introduction and background; Tonsillitis is a common condition among ENT patients, with raw data showing up to 10 patients with tonsillitis seen daily in the Mulago hospital ENT OPD. The throat swab has been the main ...
Background:
Malignant musculoskeletal tumours are comparatively rare tumours and delays in diagnosis and treatment are common.
Several factors have been associated with delayed presentation of patients with tumours. These ...
BACKGROUND:
Pneumonia is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in children less than five years in Uganda. Electrolyte abnormalities in children with pneumonia have been associated with increased risk of morbidity ...
Introduction
Lumbar spine plain radiography contributes relatively high doses of radiation compared to a chest x-ray; 10mGy for AP and 30mGy for lateral projections according to IAEA and European commission on radiation ...
Introduction: Northern Uganda is emerging from two decades of conflict from 1986 to 2006. Health and nutritional well being are potentially major challenges in these resettling communities mainly due to limited access to ...
Background:
Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis is not always a straight forward process; sometimes its
presentation is so atypical even for the most experienced surgeon leading to false positives of (15% to 37.6%) and false ...
Introduction: Progress in acute pain management over the last 30 years has demonstrated that effective pain relief can be achieved with a range of inexpensive drugs and treatments, yet the vast majority of patients in less ...
ABSTRACT
Background: Intestinal atresia is one of the commonest causes of neonatal intestinal obstruction. Survival of neonates with intestinal atresia has improved in many developed countries but in low and middle income ...
Background: Intra-operative blood salvage is a scientific technique known to reduce the need for an allogenic transfusion and associated risks of infectious and non-infectious complications and time required to acquire ...
Background: Neonatal septicemia is an emergency; globally, In Mulago there is an increase in microbial resistance to the commonly used drugs. This is associated with increased morbidity and mortality which can be prevented ...
Introduction:
The mortality after Cryptococcal Meningitis is still high, in part due to Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) related events. Cryptococcal Meningitis paradoxical IRIS incidence rates of 45% ...
Background: Accurate active tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis remains a challenge in clinical practice, especially in HIV infected patients. The aim of the study was to determine the serum markers that are associated with pulmonary ...
Within 72hrs after admis: Maternal and Child mortality, as largely avoidable causes of death are an important focus of international development, thus millennium development goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. The Uganda maternal mortality ...
Cryptococcal meningitis (CM), which is caused by the fungus, Cryptococcus Neoformans, causes life-threatening inflammation of the meninges and sometimes inflammation of the brain parenchyma. Asymptomatic cryptococcal ...
Patients with heart failure are predisposed to electrolyte abnormalities especially the older population. The most common electrolyte abnormality among these patients is hyponatraemia which is mostly dilution hyponatraemia. ...
Background: Intra-abdominal Infections (IAIs) are generally the result of invasion and multiplication of enteric bacteria in the wall of a hollow viscus or beyond. Complicated Intra-abdominal Infection (CIAI) refers to ...
Background: Rhomboids, proteins that are conserved in all life kingdoms, are among the novel genes likely to encode roles in the pathogenesis of mycobacteria. While rhomboids have various specific functions across species, ...
Introduction: More than half of the world’s population is infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori), the primary cause of chronic gastritis. Chronic gastritis is associated with peptic ulcer and in advanced stages with ...
Background:
Malaria and underweight have contributed to high morbidity and mortality in children. The two conditions have the potential to co-exist, but their relationship is not well understood in Uganda. The objective ...