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The Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolytic Enzyme Systems in Healthy Adult Africans and Europeans — A Comparative Study
(University of Nairobi, 1973-05)
In a comparative study of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in healthy adult East Africans and Europeans, the Europeans were found to have some evidence of a relatively hypercoagulable state, and the European male had ...
Haemoglobin J nyanza: α21 (B2) Ala-Asp
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
In a family belonging to the Luo community of Western Kenya a new haemoglobin variant was identified which was not causing any obvious haematological disorder.
The coagulation and fibrinolytic properties of peritoneal and venous blood in patients with ruptured ectopic pregnancy
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
The coagulation and fibrinolytic properties of peritoneal and venous blood were studied in ten African patients with ruptured ectopic pregnancy. The peritoneal blood showed marked depletion of coagulation factors and the ...
Acute Leukaemia in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1972-10)
Acute leukaemia is not as uncommon in equatorial East Africa as has until recently been believed. The acute myelogenous variety is disproportionately common in children and has an unusually frequent chloromatous presentation. ...
Dysfibrinogenaemia and Primary Hepato-Cellular Carcinoma
(University of Nairobi, 1976)
The mechanisms of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis have been evaluated in 28 black adult Africans with primary hepato-cellular carcinoma (HCC). A characteristic pattern of abnormalities has been defined. Dysnbrinogenaemia ...
Nephrotic syndrome in adult Africans in Nairobi
(1972)
The adult nephrotic syndrome as met with in Nairobi is predominantly encountered in young sophisticated African women, most of whom began to use skin-lightening creams containing mercury before the symptomatic onset of ...