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Pregnancy care and delivery management for patients with rheumatic heart diseases
(1979)
cute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an illness caused
by a reaction to a bacterial infection with group
A streptococcus. It causes an acute, generalised
inflammatory response and an illness that targets
specific parts of the ...
Positive ventriculography using water-soluble contrast media in infants with myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus.
(1978-02)
Ventriculography with meglumine iocarmate (Dimer X) or Metrizamide (Amipaque was carried out in 15 infants with myelomeningocele and progressive hydrocephalus. In all cases, an Anold-Chiari-Malformation type II was diagnosed ...
The mitogenic response of cryopreserved human lymphocytes in a microculture system
(1977)
Fresh blood lymphocytes from nine health donors have been compared with samples from the same donors, recovered after period of 2 to 21 months storage in liquid nitrogen, for the capacity to respond to a range of mitogens ...
Red-blood-cell potassium as a practical index of potassium status in elderly patients.
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1976-02)
Red-blood-cell potassium has been measured using a simplified technique on 292 geriatric patients. The measurement was found useful in reflecting changes in potassium status whereas serum potassium was unhelpful.
Excretion of the active principle of of Catha edulis (Miraa) in human urine.
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
d-Norpseudoephedrine, a central stimulant present in Catha edulis, is excreted unchanged in human urine. The alkaloid was detected in urine 30-50 min after ingestion of synthetic d-norpseudoephedrine, and trace amounts of ...
Electrocardiographic patterns in normal healthy Zambians
(1975)
Although abnormalities in the electrocardiograms have been described amongst peoples of the Negroid race, there does not appear to be a clear classification of these abnormalities. An attempt has been made to classify these ...
Cost Benefit Analysis in Adult Education.
(University of Nairobi, 1979)
This paper describes the methodology and presents preliminary results of an economic appraisal of a community based health care project in Kenya. Community health workers, trained for 12 weeks and deployed in two locations ...
Analysis of selected techniques for surveys of intestinal parasites.
(University of Nairobi, 1978)
A review is given of the recent literature on methods for diagnosis of intestinal parasites for epidemiological surveys. There are 23 references. The Kato, Harada-Mori, merthiolate-iodine-formaldehyde (MIF), scotch-tape ...
A comparison of parameters used to assess liver damage in sheep treated with carbon tetrachloride
(1977)
Changes in serum enzyme levels, liver histology and liver function tests have been correlated to determine the usefulness of these tests in assessing liver status. The effects of carbon tetrachloride administration on these ...
Schistosomiasis haematobia in coast province Kenya. Relationship between egg output and morbidity
(, 1979-09)
Several studies of schistosomiasis haematobia in Africa have revealed a correlation between intensity of infection as measured by urine egg counts and severity of disease as determined by intravenous pyelography. The present ...