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Pattern of extracranial peripheral aneurysms in a Kenyan referral hospital
(University of Nairobi, 1986)
Peripheral aneurysms are important because of concurrence with aortic ones and potential to thromboembolise or rapture. Their distribution shows population variations yet reports from Africa are scarce and altogether absent ...
The nutritional cost of measles in Africa.
(1986)
A 24 hour energy balance study was carried out on 20 black Kenyan children with acute measles and repeated after recovery. The energy content of a weighed 24 hour food intake and of a simultaneous collection of faeces and ...
Delta hepatitis in the Los Angeles area: a report of 126 cases
(University of Nairobi, 1986)
Abstract
We describe the clinical course in 126 patients with delta hepatitis who have been evaluated in Los Angeles since 1967. In approximately two thirds of all patients, delta infection was associated with chronic ...
Anorexia nervosa and dysmorphobia. A case study.
(University of Nairobi, 1986)
Anorexia nervosa is frequently associated with neurotic traits and symptoms. The symptomatology and history of a housebound 20-year-old woman with anorexia nervosa and dysmorphophobia are described. The role of the family ...
Epidemiology of ophthalmia neonatorum in Kenya
(1986)
In a Nairobi hospital where ocular prophylaxis against ophthalmia neonatorum has been discontinued, 1,019 women were screened for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis during labour and 7 and 28 days postpartum. ...
AIDS virus infection in Nairobi prostitutes. Spread of the epidemic to East Africa.
(1986)
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is epidemic in Central Africa. To determine the prevalence of AIDS virus infection in East Africa, we studied 90 female prostitutes, 40 men treated at a clinic for sexually ...
Paranoid disorder--environmental, cultural or constitutional phenomenon?
(1986-07)
At a London hospital the prevalence and types of recorded paranoid disorders, and their characteristics were extracted from the files of in-patients of various cultural groups. It was found that West Indians and Africans ...
Mode of action of halothane on histamine-induced airway constriction in dogs with reactive airways.
(1986)
o determine if clinical concentrations of halothane have direct relaxant effects on airway smooth muscle, the authors compared dose-response curves to histamine in the control state (thiopental) and during halothane ...
The influence of nitrous oxide on oxyhaemoglobin dissociation and measurement of oxygen tension
(1986)
There are conflicting reports of the effect of nitrous oxide on the oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve. We have therefore determined P50 of haemoglobin in the presence of either nitrous oxide or nitrogen and studied the ...