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Predictors of traumatic intracranial lesions in clinically diagnosed mild head injury patients at Mulago hospital.
(Makerere University, 2019-07-09)
Background
Head injury is one of the most common causes of admission at Mulago hospital with the bigger proportion of it being categorised as mild head injury (MHI).
Study Aims
The main aims of this study were to ...
APPROPRIATE PRESCRIPTION OF PROTEASE INHIBITORS AND HIV TREATMENT OUTCOMES IN HIV-TUBERCULOSIS CO-INFECTED PATIENTS ON RIFAMPICIN IN URBAN HIV CLINICS IN UGANDA.
(2019-10-17)
We aimed to determine how emerging evidence over the past decade informed how Ugandan HIV clinicians prescribed protease inhibitors (PIs) in HIV patients on rifampicin based TB treatment and how this affected HIV treatment ...
Modified malement with early vascular control versus modified retropubic prostatectomy in the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia - a randomised controlled trial.
(Makerere University, 2015-05)
Background
BPH is the most common benign tumor in men and its incidence varies with age, its >45% for men above 50 years globally. Internationally the Gold standard surgical management of severe symptomatic BPH is TURP, ...
Umbilical artery lactate level as a predictor of perinatal outcome at Mulago National Referral Hospital
(Makerere University, 2019-04-01)
Introduction: In 2017 global burden of neonatal mortality was 18 deaths per 1000 live births with over 39% of this burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Birth asphyxia is one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality and morbidity ...
Prevalence, factors associated and clinical response to uncontrolled hypertension among HIV hypertensive patients at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Mulago
(Makerere University, 2019-11-11)
Introduction: Uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) is the leading modifiable cause of
cardiovascular diseases (CVD). According to the Global Burden of Disease Study, CVDs were
the leading cause of death globally with more ...
Prevalence and factors associated with postpartum anemia among women attending postnatal clinic at six weeks at Apac General Hospital
(Makerere University, 2019-09)
INTRODUCTION
Postpartum anemia presents a high burden to the frontline health care workers worldwide. The burden is more so in countries with high prevalence of antepartum anemia and malaria. Postpartum anemia is ...
Outcomes of acute Leukemia in children at the Uganda Cancer Institute
(2019-03)
Background: Acute leukemia is the most common cancer in children worldwide, representing approximately 25% of all childhood malignancies. Five year overall survival rates are greater than 90% and 65% to 70% for acute ...
The reliability of sickling and solubility tests and peripheral blood film method sickle cell disease screening at District Health centres in Uganda
(Clin Mother Child Health, 2010)
Although sickling and solubility tests and peripheral blood film methods are today available for sickle cell disease screening
in Uganda, their reliability and ease of applicability have not been determined. This study ...
A descriptive study of gestational trophoblastic disease in four major hospitals in Kampala Uganda
(Makerere University, 2015-06)
Background.Gestational trophoblastic disease is unusual complication of pregnancy were by abnormal placental tissue proliferates in the absence of a viable fetus. There is usually a protracted follow-up period were pregnancy ...
CLINICIAN ADHERENCE TO TENOFOVIR-PRESCRIPTION-GUIDELINES FOR HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS WITH IMPAIRED RENAL FUNCTION AT A SPECIALIZED HIV CLINIC IN KAMPALA, UGANDA.
(Makerere University, 2019-10-11)
Introduction: Tenofovir Disproxil Fumarate (TDF), a highly efficacious drug widely used as first line antiretroviral therapy (ART), is associated with impaired renal function that mostly resolves after substitution. Uganda’s ...