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The relationship between the haemolytic crises in sickle cell anaemia, and the deficiency of the red cell enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
(1975-01)
Seventy-two patients with proved haemoglobin SS were studied in respected of their haemoglobin, reticulocyte counts, serum bilirubin and their Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase values in international units per gram of ...
Malnutrition and intestinal worm infestation in rural Kigezi
(1973)
A prevalence study was done on a sample of 169 pre-school children in a rural area in Kigezi, about 3½ miles from Kabale. The objective was to find whether there was an association between malnutrition and intestinal worm ...
Characteristics of acceptors of Planned Parenthood at Mbale Family Planning Clinic
(1979)
The Concept of Planned Parenthood:- Definition and Synonyms:- A common misconception by the layman is to regard Planned Parenthood as a method of stopping to produce anymore children. In Public Health parlance, this has a ...
Malaria indices in children from the urban and peri-urban areas of Kampala
(1977-02)
Malaria in man is the term given to the acute or chronic infections commonly caused by four species of protozoa parasites belonging to genus plasmodium. Malaria is characterized by fever which tends to be paroxysmal, by ...
Cardiovascular findings in patients with Sickle Cell Disease
(1974)
SUMMARY
Fifty homozygous sicklers and ten heterozygous sick cell patients selected from the sickle cell clinic cardiac clinic and inpatients on the medical wards of Mulago Hospital from the basis of this dissertation.
It ...
Factors associated with absenteeism at Kakira Sugar Works (non-plantation workers)
(1978-03)
In this paper, literature on subject of absenteeism in industrialized countries was reviewed briefly, and a passing commentary made on what the pattern of absenteeism in Uganda was likely to be. A short history of the ...
Some aspects of malaria in Mulago Hospital
(1974)
Thirty patients with malaria were studied. Seven had cerebral malaria, ten severe and thirteen non-severe malaria. Age ranged from seven weeks to eight years with equal sex distribution. All were febrile except two infants ...
Immediate and late prognosis of intracranial birth injuries
(1978-02)
Birth injury is defined by Potter (1961) as any condition that affects the foetus adversely during labour or delivery. The definition in Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics is quite in agreement. These birth injuries are further ...
Plasma rennin activity in the African hypertensives
(1974)
Early reports, particularly from East Africa, concerning surveys of arterial pressures in Africans showed hypertension as an unusual event in the indigenous population (Donnison, 1929; Vint, 1937). This impression has in ...
Pulmonary hypertension in endomyocardial fibrosis with emphasis of its severity
(1976-02)
Eighty cases of pulmonary hypertension were found from 148 cases of endomycordial fibrosis studied by cardiac catheter. All were African patients the majority being Ugandans of Rwanda and Tanzania origin and a fair number ...