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Screening for urinary tract infection in children with cancer
(University of Nairobi., 1998-05)
Neutropaenia and immunosuppression place children on treatment for malignancies at a high risk for infections. We undertook to determine the prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI) in children on treatment for cancer ...
Hormonal contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, and risk of heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
(1998)
To examine associations between method of contraception, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and incident human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection, a prospective observational cohort study was done among ...
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease - a systemic disorder.
(1998)
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease [ADPKB] is one of the commonest genetic diseases. Apart from the involvement of the kidneys, several other organs, viz. the liver, the central nervous system, the pancreas, the ...
Local infiltration and spermatic cord block for inguinal, scrotal and testicular surgery.
(1998-10)
This was a prospective study involving 372 male patients. Surgical procedures including simple inguinal hernia repair, inguinal lymph node biopsy, hydrocelectomy, testicular biopsy, testicular fixation, orchidectomy and ...
Quality of Pharmaceuticals in Kenya -
(1998)
Over the past years Kenya has been treated to press reports about poor quality pharmaceuticals in the market and problems with the same in public institutions. This paper reviews mechanism in place in Kenya to minimise ...
Study of psychiatric consequences of closed head injury at the Kenyatta National Hospital
(1998-06)
This was a study to compare the psychiatric consequences of closed head injury (CHI) in 37 patients with 39 demographically similar patients with fractured lower limb injury (FLLI), aged 16-55 years. The outcome measures ...
Neurological syndromes of brucellosis.
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1998-08)
Eleven patients with brucellosis presented with neurological features closely simulating transient ischaemic attacks, cerebral infarction, acute confusional state, motor neuron disease, progressive multisystem degeneration, ...
Relative merits of ultrasonography, computed tomography and cholangiography in patients of surgical obstructive jaundice.Hepatogastroenterology.
(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) ...
Studies on schistosomiasis in western Kenya: II. Efficacy of praziquantel for treatment of schistosomiasis in persons coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus-1
(University of Nairobi,, 1998-08)
Praziquantel is the drug of choice for schistosomiasis chemotherapy. Although the exact mechanism of how praziquantel kills schistosomes remains poorly understood, the immune response of the host is an important factor in ...
Gonococcal scalp abscess in a neonate delivered by caesarean section
(University of Nairobi., 1998-12)
Gonococcal infection in caesarean delivered babies is very rare and is usually limited to ophthalmia neonatorum. The mother had rupture of membranes 14 hours before the caesarean section. The infection was most likely ...