Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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Diagnosis unknown: a benign maxillary tumour with an elusive diagnosis – a case report
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Dual omental flap in obliterating post-pneumonectomy bronchopleural fistulae
(KMA, 2015)Background: Post-pneumonectomy bronchopleural fistulae is associated with high mortality and morbidity. The omental flap has been widely used to manage this condition either through laparoscopic or open surgery with varied ... -
Health care worker training programmes: Sharing the Kenyan experience
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06)Despite what seems to be a significant burden of rheumatic diseases in East Africa, huge deficiencies in education and training of health professionals exist. World health organization recommends that there ... -
Rheumatology workforce in Africa: The challenges of providing care with limited resources including workforce
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06)Life threatening communicable diseases, inadequate and over-burdened public health systems, and struggling economies place a tremendous strain on health systems with very limited resources in sub-Saharan ... -
Distribution and characteristics of risk factors for cardiovascular–metabolic disease in a rural Kenyan community
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Background The rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases and associated premature mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa contradicts the widely accepted premise that African countries are only dominated by infectious ... -
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of health care workers on corticosteroid adverse drug events in rheumatologic, respiratory and dermatologic clinics in a teaching hospital in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06)Background: Corticosteroids form the cornerstone of management for a myriad of rheumatological, dermatological and chronic respiratory tract diseases. Whereas these drugs are crucial in reducing morbidity and ... -
Clinical characteristics of patients with systemic lupus erythe - matosus in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06)Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a chronic multisystem autoimmune disease with a wide spectrum of manifestations, shows considerable variation across the globe, although there is data from Africa ... -
Ethnobotanical survey of food and medicinal plants of the Ilkisonko Maasai community in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)Aim of the study Pastoralist communities such as the Maasai are heavily reliant on traditional foods and medicines. This survey sought to identify traditional foods and/or medicinal plants of the Ilkisonko Maasai community ... -
Qualitative mid-term evaluation of a maternal, newborn and child health training and research capacity building program in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-02)Program/Project Purpose Kenya has made small gains on morbidity and mortality for Maternal, Newborn, and child health (MNCH) over the last 25 years. Mortality rates remain high at 400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live ... -
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: management challenges and lessons learnt in the third world set-up: Case report
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Background: Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) is a disorder that manifests clinically as recurrent venous or arterial thrombosis and/or foetal loss. Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome (CAPS) is a very severe variant ... -
Stress, diabetes, and infection: Syndemic suffering at an urban Kenyan hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2015-12)The complexity of sickness among Kenya's urban poor cannot be dissociated from how social and health problems become syndemic. Increasingly diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are emerging among low-income ... -
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 ... -
Some characteristics of two azoreductase systems in rat liver. Relevance to the activity of 2-[4'-di(2″-bromopropyl)-aminophenylazo]benzoic acid (CB10-252), a compound possessing latent cytotoxic activity
(1975)The system involved in the reduction of 2-[4'-di(2″-bromopropyl)aminophenylazo]benzoic acid (CB10-252), an agent designed for treating primary liver cell cancer, has been demonstrated to be localised mainly in the 108 000 ... -
Does pneumocystis carinii occur in Kenya?
(University of Nairobi, 1982)An experiment was carried out exposing immuno-suppressed mice to the atmosphere to determine if transmission of Pneumocystis carinii occured in Kenya. Mice were killed at weekly intervals for four months and the lungs ... -
Gastric {Outlet} {Obstruction}
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Gastric Outlet Obstruction. Gastric outlet obstruction (GOO, also known as pyloric obstruction) is not a single entity; it is the clinical and pathophysiological consequence of any disease process that produces a mechanical ... -
Variant origin of the superior cerebellar artery in a black {Kenyan} population
(University of Nairobi, 2015-05-20)Knowledge of variant origin of the superior cere- bellar artery is important during neuroradiological and neurosurgical procedures at the basilar termi- nation and clivus regions, and may influence ... -
How do clinicians prefer cultural competence training? Findings from the DSM-5 cultural formulation interview field trial.
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)OBJECTIVE: This study's objective is to analyze training methods clinicians reported as most and least helpful during the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview field trial, reasons why, and associations between demographic ... -
Genomic epidemiology of the current wave of artemisinin resistant malaria
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum is advancing across Southeast Asia in a soft selective sweep involving at least 20 independent kelch13 mutations. In a large global survey, we find that kelch13 mutations which ... -
Chronic hypertension in rabbits induced by bilateral placement of rigid casts around the carotid sinus regions
(University of Nairobi, 1972)Blood pressure was measured by the ear capsule method in 12 conscious rabbits. After a two-week control period, at operation under anaesthesia rapid-setting dental cement casts were placed bilaterally around the carotid ... -
An inhibitory effect of prolactin on the response of rat myometrium to cxytocin
(University of Nairobi, 1973)