Medicine
Recent Submissions
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The role of parenteral phenobarbitone in the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia.
(1993)Abstract available in PDF. -
Evaluation of serological techniques in the diagnosis of active invasive amoebiasis.
(1991)Abstract available in PDF. -
Aspects of gastrointestinal tuberculosis at King Edward VIII Hospital.
(1987)Abstract available in PDF. -
Suturing of the faucial pillars and its effect on the pain following tonsillectomy.
(1998)Abstract available in PDF. -
An assessment of ENT scope and training perceptions amongst general practitioners and primary care physicians in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)An overview of dissertation is available in a PDF. -
The role of carcinoembryonic antigen in predicting colorectal cancer in resource poor setting of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2019)Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common malignancy in South Africa. Currently the most reliable screening tool, colonoscopy, is not readily accessible in resource-deprived settings of KwaZulu-Natal. ... -
Association between thyroid dysfunction and conventional risk factors in patients with acute coronary syndromes.
(2019)Abstract not available. -
Assessment of the liver in an HIV era: clinical, laboratory and radiological abnormalities.
(2020)Background: Liver – related mortality and morbidity are an increasing burden worldwide. Aim: To outline the pattern of liver abnormalities at a tertiary hospital in KwaZulu Natal (KZN), Durban, South Africa, during the ... -
A review of aplastic/hypoplastic anaemia diagnosed on bone marrow samples at the haematology laboratory at National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2019)Aplastic Anaemia (AA) is a bone marrow failure syndrome (BMFS) characterized by bone marrow aplasia and peripheral blood pancytopenia. The presenting symptoms in patients with AA are often those of anaemia, haemorrhage or ... -
A 10-year institutional review of surgery for structural valve dysfunction in the developing world.
(2017)Background Prosthetic heart valves do not fulfil the requirements for an ideal valve, resulting in the development of prosthetic dysfunction or complications over time. Structural valve dysfunction may be influenced by ... -
An audit of the infection prevention and control program at Port Shepstone Regional Hospital.
(2019)BACKGROUND Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death in South Africa. The treatment of these diseases and their complications consume huge amounts of already limited healthcare resources. Antibiotic resistance ... -
Increase in live infected cell number with drug and generation of a quasispecies are consequences of multiply HIV infected cells.
(2018)HIV may form reservoirs in anatomical compartments and evolve a quasispecies in order to survive under selective pressures such as antiretroviral drugs. Lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue - critical sites for reservoir ... -
Size does not matter: a molecular insight into the biological activity of chemical fragments utilizing computational approaches.
(2016)Insight into the functional and physiological state of a drug target is of essential importance in the drug discovery process, with the lack of emerging (3D) drug targets we propose the integration of homology modeling ... -
The epidemiology and impact of pretreatment HIV drug resistance in adults in South Africa.
(2018)HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) present prior to initiating or re-initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART), is known as pretreatment drug resistance (PDR). Conventionally, PDR is detected by Sanger sequencing. Drug resistant ... -
Faecal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. in Mozambican students.
(2017)In recent years, the world has seen a surge in extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria. Among antibiotic resistance mechanisms, the production of β-lactamase is the most rapidly developing and clinically ... -
PreNatal nicotine exposure and maternal separation alter the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in mice.
(2019)Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy has been associated with long term cognitive dysfunction. The harmful behavioural effects of cigarette smoking have been shown to be primarily due to nicotine. While the mechanism ... -
The role of follistatin and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in HIV-associated pre-eclampsia.
(2018)KZN has a high burden of HIV infection and high blood pressure, specifically pre-eclampsia (PE) in pregnancy. Follistatin (FS) and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) are two glycoproteins involved in PE pathogenesis. ...
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