Aim: Snakebite is an important public health problem especially in tropical and subtropical countries. Snake antivenom is the only specific treatment to save the lives. However, antivenoms are relatively expensive, have restricted efficacy to the species of snake whose venom was...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/36687
Aims: To determine the incidence of Germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH) among preterm neonates and the associated perinatal risk factors. Study Design: Prospective cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: This study was carried out in the (two) neonatal units of Lagos Uni...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/38198
Zied Mezgar, Mariem Khrouf, Houda Ben Soltane, Mohamed Mahjoub, Amel Amara, Sihem Ben Fredj, Maher Jdidi, Samar Hajer Sandid, Sarra Zaouali, Ines Waz, Asma Saada & Mehdi Methamem·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2018
Introduction: The re-consultation after short period of initial visit is an indicator of health care’s quality offered in the first consultation. They increase health expenditures and reflect a wrong medical care process. Aims: The aims of this work are to determine the rate of r...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/38329
The goal of this study was to determine the association between arterial blood flow in normal and high BMI of hypertensive adult male subjects under resting state. To achieve this, 400 humans were ethically recruited from Irrua Specialist Teaching hospital, Irrua, Edo State of Ni...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36815
Background: Nephrectomy is a surgical operation that requires removal of the kidney. Indications for nephrectomy vary across the globe. Scope of disorders, available human and material resources affect the type and method of nephrectomy offered in a centre. Aims: To study the ind...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/38766
A total of 400 pregnant women, 200 from Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), 200 from Bori General Hospital (BGH) and 100 non- pregnant women used as control were examined for malaria parasitemia by staining their blood films with Giemsa stain. The prevalence of malar...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37994
Dermatophyte infection or ringworm is a superficial cutaneous infection with one or more of the fungal species of the keratinophilic genera Microsporum, Trichophyton, or Epidermophyton and is a zoonosis with a great impact on public health. Three skin scraping were collected from...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/38678
Aims: Researches show that sports participation has its own inherent haematological and biochemical adaptations. Although studies have reported that athletes are at vantage level as compare to non-athletes in physiological parameters, whether it extends to haematological and bioc...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/38217
Acanthosis nigricans is characterized by hyperpigmented and velvety verrucous plaques observed as symmetric eruptions. We report a 22 year old girl with generalized idiopathic acanthosis nigricans with no family history, who presented with hyperpigmented, hypertrophic and symmetr...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/38668
Background: The slime that produces by bacteria are responsible for many chronic infections and it's not easy to treat because they showing more resistance to antibiotic. Clearly it's the main virulence factors that determined pathogenicity of coagulase-negative staphylococci (Co...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/37997