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Intense Simulation-Based Surgical Education for Manual Small-Incision Cataract Surgery: The Ophthalmic Learning and Improvement Initiative in Cataract Surgery Randomized Clinical Trial in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
(University of Nairobi, 2021-01)Importance: Cataracts account for 40% of cases of blindness globally, with surgery the only treatment. Objective: To determine whether adding simulation-based cataract surgical training to conventional training results ... -
Intense Simulation-Based Surgical Education for Manual Small-Incision Cataract Surgery: The Ophthalmic Learning and Improvement Initiative in Cataract Surgery Randomized Clinical Trial in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
(university of nairobi, 2021)Importance: Cataracts account for 40% of cases of blindness globally, with surgery the only treatment. Objective: To determine whether adding simulation-based cataract surgical training to conventional training results ... -
Intensive care in poor-resource settings: Solutions are in the hands at home Reply
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Intensive nitrogen mustard therapy with abdominal aortic occlusion in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
(School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, 1965-03)No abstract available. -
Intentional and Unintentional Condom Breakage and Slippage in the Sexual Interactions of Female and Male Sex Workers and Clients in Mombasa, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)We examined why male condoms broke or slipped off during commercial sex and the actions taken in response among 75 female and male sex workers and male clients recruited from 18 bars/nightclubs in Mombasa, Kenya. Most ... -
Interaction between cytostatics and nutrients
(College of health science,University of Nairobi, 1991)Cancer patients have the highest prevalence of malnutrition of any group of hospitalized patients. The presence of the tumor alone may lead to reduced intake of different nutrients and treatment modalities such as surgery, ... -
Interaction between nifedipine and digoxin in rats
(Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, 1995)Possible nifedipine-digoxin interaction was investigated in rats by comparing lethal doses of intravenously diogoxin in control and experimental rats. In the experimental rats, nifedipine was administered intraperitoneally, ... -
Interaction of benzoquinones with mitochondria interferes with oxidative phosphorylation characteristics
(University of NairobiDepartment of Biochemistry, 1990-06)Studies with four benzoquinones, viz. juglone, embelin, maesaquinone and maesanin, on rat liver mitochondria oxidative phosphorylation have been carried out. Three of the benzoquinones are uncouplers in the order juglone ... -
Interaction of cardiac diseases in pregnancy.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics, 1979) -
Interaction of chloropromazine with adrenochrome and interference of a possible endogenous psychotogenic agent with some synaptic enzyme activities
(University of Nairobi, 1972)Chloropromazine is able to interact with adrenochrome yielding a complex more stable than the acetylcholine-adrenochrome complex postulated as the endo-genous psychotogenic agent in mental illness. The toxicity of the ... -
Interaction of soluble cellooligosaccharides with the N-terminal cellulose-binding domain of Cellulomonas fimi CenC 2. NMR and ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy.
(University of NairobiFaculty of medicine, 1996-11)The N-terminal cellulose-binding domain (CBDN1) from Cellulomonas fimi beta-1,4-glucanase CenC binds amorphous but not crystalline cellulose. To investigate the structural and thermodynamic bases of cellulose binding, NMR ... -
The interaction of trypsin and chymotrypsin with intestinal cells in man and several animal species
(Medicine, University of Nairobi, 1971) -
Interactions between malaria and HIV infection—an emerging public health problem?
(Department of Medical Microbiology annexe, University of NairobiMRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, 2002-10)Recent evidence demonstrates interactions between malaria and HIV infection. HIV-infected people are more likely to experience clinical malaria, and acute malaria can up-regulate HIV replication, leading to higher plasma ... -
Interactions between natural populations of human and rodent schistosomes in the Lake Victoria region of Kenya: a molecular epidemiological approach.
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 2008)BACKGROUND: Schistosoma mansoni exists in a complex environmental milieu that may select for significant evolutionary changes in this species. In Kenya, the sympatric distribution of S. mansoni with S. rodhaini potentially ... -
Interactions between schistosomiasis and human immunodeficiency virus in Western Kenya
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Science, 2004)Abstract For the past ten years, we have been exploring the relationship between schistosomiasis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) and how coinfection with both agents may affect the pathology and progression of ... -
Intercorrelations of the anthropometric measurements of the newborn infants of Upper Egypt
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Human Anatomy, 1989)A sample of 166 normal adult males and females was taken from different colleges of Assiut representing those living in upper Egypt. Each subject has been studied for measurements of stature (S), hand length (HL) and hand ... -
An Interesting Case of Fatal Myasthenic Crisis Probably Induced by the COVID-19 Vaccine
(University of Nairobi, 2022-03)A myasthenic crisis is a severe, life-threatening exacerbation of myasthenia gravis that causes a rapid onset of muscle weakness and fatigue that may result in tetraparesis, dyspnea, respiratory insufficiency, aspiration, ...