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Long term valve-related morbidity following open-heart surgery at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
(East African medical journal, 2000)
OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of valve morbidity associated with post-operative valve patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. DESIGN: A combined retrospective and prospective study. Restrospective ...
Pregnancy in open heart surgical patients at Kenyatta National Hospital.
(East African medical journal, 1999-01-01)
In the past, the Kenyatta National Hospital heart unit policy has been to discourage pregnancy among patients following open heart surgery for valve replacement, in view of the adverse effects of warfarin.
OBJECTIVE:
To ...
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 ...
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 ...