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Extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma among blunt torso injury patients at Mulago Hospital
(Makerere University, 2012)
Introduction: Evaluation of patients with torso trauma is often a diagnostic challenge for emergency physicians and trauma surgeons. This is mainly because of large cavities in this part of the body which may theoretically ...
Value and importance of informed consent to researchers at Makerere University.
(Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health., 2012)
Background: Respect for persons requires that research participants be given the opportunity to make choices about what should be done to them. Many times, the process of informed consent is abused to the benefit of ...
Relationship between phenotypic features of Cryptococcus Neoformans and CSF opening pressure in HIV–infected patients with cryptococcal meningitis in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2012-05)
Background: Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis(CM) is a highly prevalent HIV associated opportunistic infection in Africa, with mortality attributable to raised intracranial pressure (ICP) as high as 50%, rising to 100% among ...
Association between RBC folate levels with breast cancer in patients seen at Mulago National Referral Hospital: A case-control study.
(Makerere University, 2012)
Background: Folate has been shown to play a complex but unclear role in carcinogenesis, with, some studies showing that low folate intake protects against early while high folate intake promoting advanced carcinogenesis. ...
Zinc adjunct therapy reduces case fatality in severe childhood pneumonia: a randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: Pneumonia is a leading cause of children’s deaths in developing countries and hinders achievement of the fourth Millennium Development Goal. This goal aims to reduce the under-five mortality rate, by two thirds, ...
Prevalence of triple negative breast cancer and its associated clinico-histopathological characteristics among women with primary breast cancer at Mulago hospital.
(Makerere University, 2012)
Background Globally, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed life threatening cancer and leading cause of cancer death among women. In Uganda, breast cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer after Kaposi’s ...
Chest radiographic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis in severely immunocompromised patients with the human immunodeficiency virus
(The British Institute of Radiology, 2012-06)
Objective: We describe chest radiograph (CXR) findings in a population with a high
prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) in order to
identify radiological features associated with TB; to ...
Prevalence and factors associated with use of traditional medicine among HIV positive clients in Mubende District, Uganda
(2012-03)
Introduction: Traditional Medicine is widely used in Uganda and Sub-Saharan African in general.There are proven adverse interactions between some herbal medications and ARV drugs hence the practice of concurrent use of the ...
Health system facilitators and barriers to the implementation of cotrimoxazole preventive therapy recommendations among HIV positive adults in Mityana District, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2012-07)
Introduction: In Sub Saharan Africa, only 36% of those eligible for Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) receive it. Well implemented Septrin use among HIV positives can reduce morbidity, mortality, the rate of HIV progression ...
Antibacterial activity of the root extracts of draceana laxissima and draceana fragrans on selected urinary tract pathogens
(Makerere University, 2012-01)
Introduction: Over 150 million people are diagnosed with urinary tract infections (UTI) each year. The prevalence rate for UTIs in the Ugandan population was estimated to be at 1 in 33 or 3.03%. The main causal organisms ...