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Hemodynamic and metabolic effects of enalapril in patients with heart failure.
(University of Nairobi, 1985-11)
Placebo and enalapril were added on a double-blind basis to conventional treatment in 14 patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), New York Heart Association class II-III. The patients were followed for 14 weeks and ...
A comparative study of captopril and enalapril in patients with severe hypertension.
(University of Nairobi, 1985-03)
Twenty patients with moderate to severe essential hypertension were randomized in a paralleled, double-blind, 22-week study of captopril (ten) and enalapril (ten) following four weeks of hydrochlorothiazide (50 mg/d) ...
Studies Of Case-finding For Pulmonary Tuberculosis In Outpatients At 4 District Hospitals In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1985-12)
This investigation is the sixth in a series of case-finding studies in Kenya. It explores the potential for case-finding by the identification of tuberculosis suspects (individuals with a cough for 1 month or more) through ...
Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis in Kenya: an assessment of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
(1985)
Sera from 124 adult Kenyan patients with chronic splenomegaly and from 93 geographically matched controls without splenomegaly were tested for evidence of Schistosoma mansoni infection by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ...
Cell-mediated immunity to spermatozoal antigens after vasectomy: recent developments
(1985)
Vasectomy has rapidly become the most popular male sterilization technique in man in recent years. However, little is known about its long-term physiological, anatomical, endocrinological, and immunological consequences. ...
Relationships of Schistosoma hematobium, hookworm and malarial infections and metrifonate treatment to hemoglobin level in Kenyan school children
(1985)
Relationships between hemoglobin level and S. hematobium, hookworm, and malarial infection before and six months after metrifonate treatment were studied in Kenyan primary school children in an area where anemia, S. ...
Diets and trophic ranking of ungulates of the northern Serengeti
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1985)
The botanical composition of diets was determined for Thomson's (Gazella thomsoni) and Grant's gazelles (G. granti), impala (Aepyceros melampus), topi (Damaliscus lunatus topi), kongoni (Alcelaphus buselaphus cokii), ...
Absorption of 1.5% glycine after percutaneous ultrasonic lithotripsy for renal stone disease
(1985)
An elderly normotensive man underwent percutaneous ultrasonic lithotripsy for renal stone disease, the procedure lasting three hours and the fragments being washed out with 20 l 1.5% glycine. After two hours the inflation ...
Blood Volume, Erythrokinetics and Spleen Function in Thrombocythaemia
(University of Nairobi,, 1985)
Essential thrombocythaemia was diagnosed in a series of 18 patients on the basis of platelet counts greater than 1,000 × 109/1. Radionuclide studies have been carried out to distinguish thrombocythaemia as a primary disease ...
Urinary iron loss and physical fitness of Kenyan children with urinary schistosomiasis
(1985)
Daily urinary iron loss and physical fitness were determined in Kenyan primary school children who had low-medium (16-177 eggs/10 ml adj) or high (200-1,194 eggs/10 ml adj) S. hematobium egg counts compared with a matched ...