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What is South African sign language? What is the South African deaf community
(2009-05-11)
SUMMARY What is South African Sign Language? What is the South African Deaf Community? These two questions may look simple but answering them is quite complicated. It is a well-known fact that across the world, the majority ...
NATIONAL HOSPITAL, NAIROBI
(EAsT AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 2008-02)
Background: Electroencephalogram based studies done elsewhere suggest that epileptiform activity originates predominantly from the left cortical hemisphere. Thereis evidence that partial epilepsies (focal spike and wave ...
Primary cerebral angitis of the central nervous
(East African medical journal, 2008)
We report a case of a 28 year old female who presented with variedly progressive stroke like illness and raised intracranial pressure. Brain MRI scans revealed pericallosal and periventricular hyperintensities with oedema. ...
A review of electroencephlagrams done at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
(East African Medical Journal, 2008-06-11)
Background: Electroencephalogram based studies done elsewhere suggest that epileptiform activity originates predominantly from the left cortical hemisphere. There is evidence that partial epilepsies (focal spike and wave ...
Pathological sub-types, risk factors and outcome of stroke at the Nairobi Hospital, Kenya
(East African medical journal, 2008)
Background: Stroke is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality the world over. Established risk factors such as arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, hyper-lipidaemia, micro-vascular ...
Clinical and laboratory characteristics of hospitalised patients with neurological manifestations of HIV/AIDS at the Nairobi hospital
(East African Medical Journal, 2007)
Objective: To determine the profile of clinical and laboratory characteristics of hospitalised HIV positive patients with neurological complications at a private hospital in Nairobi, Kenya from Ianuary 2000 to June ...
Osmotic demyelination syndrom: case report
(East African Medical Journal, 2007)
We present a 40 year old man who was admitted to the hospital with convulsions. His final diagnosis was osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS). We discuss the diagnostic and management challenges and the possible complications ...
STROKE IN HIV/AIDS
(International Journal of Stroke, 2006-11)
Background:
Asymptomatic cognitive impairment in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients has recently been recognised as part of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. This has been implicated as one of the ...
Hemifacial spasm: case report
(Kenya Medical Association, 2006-07)
A 53 year old lady with diabetes mellitus presented with right hemi-facial spasm (HFS). Brain MRI Scan revealed extensive pan-sinusitis and mild bilateral mastoiditis. She responded well to intravenous ceftriaxone therapy ...
THE DIMINISHING WEALTH: THE CASE OF NYAMASARIA WETLANDS IN KISUMU TOWN
(Egerton university press, 2007-04)
Although household food security may not capture all dimensions of food such as
availability, access and utilisation; inability of households to put enough and
quality food on the table is a manifestation of bad food ...