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Defects in resting metabolic rates and mitochondrial respiration in Kwashiorkor and dietary obese rats
(Springer-Verlag, 1991-07-01)
Resting metabolic rates have been measured and compared with hepatic
mitochondrial respiration in Kwashiorkor and diet-induced obese weaned rats. In
Kwashiorkor, resting metabolic rate was 21% lower than the value of ...
Sehistosoma Mansoni in the Baboon: Modulation of Pathology After Vaccination with Polyclonal Anti‐Idiotypic Antibodies
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1995-12-01)
Vaccination of five baboons with an anti-idiotypic vaccine to irradiated Schistosoma
mansoni cercariae resulted in nearly 19% protection compared to 39% protection conferred
to five baboons vaccinated with an irradiated ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...