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A biochemical study of vitamin B12 deficiency in the baboon.
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
A dietary deficiency of vitamin B12 was produced in the baboon by use of an artificial diet. Deficiency was further aggravated by feeding propionate or ampicillin, as judged by serum, liver and brain vitamin B12 levels, ...
Screening For Hypothyroidism In Elderly Inpatients
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
Routine biochemical screening for hypothyroidism in 2000 geriatric inpatients proved valuable and practicable and yielded 46 cases (2.3%). A non-specific clinical picture was particularly common, with less than a third of ...
Possible role of malaria in the etiology of the nephrotic syndrome in Nairobi
(1972)
In a study in Nairobi, Kenya, 30 young adults with nephrotic syndrome were investigated in detail and a further 18 were studied less completely. In no case was evidence found to support a possible role for malaria in the ...
Carpal tunnel syndrome in patients on intermittent haemodialysis.
(1975)
Twenty-three out of thirty-six patients using a forearm arteriovenous fistula for dialysis reported symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome in the fistula hand during dialysis. By contrast with other reported groups of patients ...
Testicular neoplasms in Kenyan Africans
(University of Nairobi,, 1978)
Over a 9-year period 40 testicular and paratesticular neoplasms were seen at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Their incidence rate was 0.08 per annum per 100,000 Kenyan males. This low incidence was largely ...
Possible Mechanism Of Action For Aldosterone-induced Hypertension
(University of Nairobi, 1970)
Aldosterone applied locally to the carotid-sinus regions in rabbits produces a substantial rise in arterial pressure. The rise is larger and happens more quickly than when similar doses are given intravenously. Cross-circulation ...
Schistosomiasis of spinal cord.
(University of Nairobi, 1977)
The case is reported of a 14-month-old child admitted to hospital in Kenya with a 6-week history of progressive weakness of both lower limbs and urinary incontinence following an acute febrile illness. A thoraco-lumbar ...
Community diagnosis and health action: a manual for tropical and rural areas.
(University of Nairobi, 1979)
As the interest of medical schools in developing countries moves towards the use of community health centres in providing much of the health care for the majority of the population, the need becomes apparent for training ...
Post natal changes in somaesthetic evoked potentials in the albino rat.
(University of Nairobi, 1971)
THE evoked potential is a useful tool in the study of brain development1–3 although the underlying mechanism has not been explained conclusively. The post-natal changes in the evoked potential should throw some more light ...
Incidence of peptic ulcer in the Zambian African - a radiological study.
(1978)
Five hundred and sixty-eight (568) consecutive barium meal examinations have been studied. 152 showed peptic ulcer. There were 146 duodenal and six gastric ulcers. Eight were post-bulbar ulcers, and multiple ulcers were ...