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Follow up of patients after open heart surgery.
(East African medical journal, 1998-12)
To determine the patient drop out to postoperative follow up for heart patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
DESIGN SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:
The study analysed the postoperative attendance of heart patients to the ...
Epstein‐Barr virus in Hodgkin's disease: frequency of a 30‐bp deletion in the latent membrane protein (LMP‐1) oncogene in South African patients
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-08-20)
In recent years, substantial evidence has accumulated implicating Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the pathogenesis of Hodgkin’s disease (HD) and some non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (Pallesen et al., 1993; Weiss et al., 1989). It has ...
Anaemia in elderly patients at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 1988)
The main objective of this work was to study anaemia in elderly patients and hence contribute some baseline data for future possible work in this area. This prospective study covered 63 elderly patients of all types of ...
Fibrosarcoma of the lung with extrapulmonary manifestations
(East African Medical Journal,, 1995-07-01)
A 50-year-old female presented with a five months history of recurrent attacks of dizziness, sweatiness, tremors and fainting with loss of consciousness. These were found to be due to hypoglycaemic episodes with blood ...
A study of haemorrhoids as seen at the Kenyatta National Hospital with special reference to asymptomatic haemorrhoids.
(University of Nairobi, 1987)
Haemorrhoids is a condition defined as a swelling at the anal margin, a pile. This condition has been known to afflict mankind for a long time having been documented from the time of Hipprocrates. So far it has not been ...
Surgery of the oesophagus: a Nairobi experience.
(East African medical journal, 1993-05-01)
On average, for every 100 patients with malignant dysphagia admitted into the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi, 28 will have their tumour resected. Seven in the tumour resected group will die during the postoperative ...