Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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Oral health knowledge , attitudes and practices of Parents/guardians of pre - school children in Moshi,Tanzania.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Paediatric Dentistry / Orthodontics, 2009)Objective: To assess the oral health knowledge, attitudes and practices of the parents/guardians of pre-school children in Moshi, Tanzania. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Moshi Municipality, Kilimanjaro region, ... -
Biennial meet of the International Association for the Study of the Liver.
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Esthetic preferences of European American, Hispanic American, Japanese, and African Judges for soft - tissue profiles
(University of NairobiDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, 2009-04)Introduction: Our objectives were to determine whether observer and patient sex and race or ethnicity determine esthetic preferences for lip positions. Methods: Four independent panels each consisting of 30 lay judges ... -
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection in severe forms of liver diseases in north India
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1996) -
Hepatitis G virus in India.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1996) -
Blood culture for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1997) -
Status Of Orthodontic Services In Kenya.
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Magnitude of hepatitis C virus infection in India: prevalence in healthy blood donors, acute and chronic liver diseases
(1997)An enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was developed in-house for the detection of anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody against the prevailing genotypes in India. The specific reactivity of the test was compared with commercial ... -
Leading-edge Scientific and clinical advances, 9-10 January, Monte Carlo, Monaco
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
Relative merits of ultrasonography, computed tomography and cholangiography in patients of surgical obstructive jaundice.Hepatogastroenterology.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1998)Fifty consecutive patients with surgical obstructive jaundice were evaluated prospectively with ultrasonography (US), computed tomographic scans (CT scan) and cholangiography-percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) ... -
Edge Strength Of Resin-composite Margins.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Conservative And Prosthetic Dentistry, 2008)OBJECTIVES: Marginal integrity is a major clinical problem in restorative dentistry. The aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of an edge strength measurement device in an in vitro test to determine the force ... -
Portal hypertensive gastropathy in noncirrhotic patients. The effect of lienorenal shunts.
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Evaluation of Acute Pelvic/Lower abdominal pain in Women
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Diagnostic Imaging And Radiation Medicine, 2002-03) -
Hepatitis E virus infection: where are we?
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
Mechanisms behind hepatitis B virus persistence: the search continues
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
Role of abdominal ultrasound in evaluation of children with suspected upper gastrointestinal disease.
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Diagnostic Imaging And Radiation Medicine, 2012)Objectives: To evaluate the sonographic abdominal findings in children with suspected upper gastrointestinal disease, establish indications for sonography and show the gastrointestinal disease patterns that can be evaluated ... -
2,6-Dichloro-phenol indophenol prevents switch-over of electrons between the cyanide-sensitive and -insensitive pathway of the mitochondrial electron transport chain in the presence of inhibitors.
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)To evolve a simple oxygen electrode-based method to estimate alternative respiration, one needs to develop a procedure to prevent switch-over of electrons to either pathway upon inhibition by cyanide or salicylhydroxamic ... -
An Analysis Of The Pattern Of Findings On The Mediastinum In The Computerised Tomography Chest In Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Diagnostic Imaging And Radiation Medicine, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to assess the pattern of findings in the Mediastinum in Computersied Tomography chest based on a study of major hospitals in Kenya. CT Scan chest was performed in patients suspected to have ... -
Sonographic appearances and percutaneous management of primary tuberculous liver abscess
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)Primary tuberculous liver abscesses are rare. We report on 3 patients who presented with a nonresolving abscess in the liver. Clinical presentation and sonographic findings in each case were nonspecific. A diagnosis of ... -
Is protein-deficient diabetes mellitus a pancreatitis?
(Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1999)BACKGROUND: Malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus is a distinct clinical entity subdivided into protein-deficient diabetes mellitus (PDDM) and fibrocalculus pancreatic diabetes (FCPD). Whereas FCPD has obvious pancreatitis ...
