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Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research

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General Purpose Media (BNO) for Growing Fastidious Gram Negative (FGN) Bacteria

Abdallah Bani Odeh, Issa Shtayeh, Mohammed Ayesh, Ismail Warad & Sameer A. Barghouthi · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

General purpose media for growing fastidious pathogenic Gram negative (FGN) bacteria are limited to non-selective blood and chocolate agar. These suffer from excessive contamination with fungi, Gram positive, and Gram negative bacteria, especially Pseudomonas spp. MacConkey agar...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34450

Factors Influencing Mortality and Outcome of Burns from a Trauma Registry in Nigeria: A Retrospective Study

Sydney E. Ibeanusi & P. N. Wichendu · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

Background: Burns injury has a global distribution and contributes to trauma mortality and morbidity. Whereas mortality from burns is reducing in most developed countries, the picture in developing countries such as Nigeria still remains gloomy. Better understandings of the patho...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34268

Prevalence and Associated Risks Factors for Menstrual Disorders among Undergraduate Students in Borno State, Nigeria

A. A. Kullima, S. M. Ibrahim, B. Isa, H. A. Usman, A. G. Mairiga & M. B. Kawuwa · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

Background: Problems pertaining to menstruation are generally perceived among women as normal variation in body physiology and often not regarded as a serious health issue that requires public health attention. They only presents to our outpatient gynaecological clinics to seek m...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/29332

Polymorphism of pfk13-propeller in Niger: Detection of Novel Mutations

Ibrahim Maman Laminou, Mahaman Moustapha Lamine, Boubacar Mahamadou, Oumou Maïga Ascofaré & Alioune Dièye · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

Aim: Artemisinin resistance was confirmed in Southeast Asia in 2009, and a molecular marker of resistance to artemisinin as point mutations in the region of the kelch13 gene (k13) coding for the C-terminal propeller domain of Kelch13 (K13-propeller) gene, was discovered in Cambod...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34192

Bilateral Renal Infarction in a Teenage Patient: A Case of “Transient” Antiphospholipid Syndrome?

Shadwa Hassan, Diniece Barran, Eleny Romanos-Sirakis & Richard Sidlow · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

We present a case of abdominal pain in an 18-year-old-female which was ultimately diagnosed to be due to bilateral renal infarction. The etiology of this finding was determined to be a transient antiphospholipid syndrome, a rare but known cause of renal infarction in the pediatri...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/33611

The Effect of Fluid-structure Interaction in Finite-element Analysis of Skull Bone on Relieving Cerebral Injury in a Porcine Model

Xian Fang Yue, Duncan E. T. Shepherd, Daniel M. Espino, Li Wang & Hongwu Meng · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

Introduction: Bone tissue is non-homogeneous, porous and anisotropic. Compact bone contains a hierarchical structure of interconnected channels, and cancellous bone is the spongy construction with the biphasic of viscous fluid and elastic solid materials. Fluid flow in and out ha...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/30457

The Relationship between Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio and Left Ventricular Function in Drug-naïve Asymptomatic Hypertensive Adults in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Norbert Ndubuisi Unamba, Akpa Maclean Romokere & Odia Osaretin James · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

Background: Systemic hypertension is the commonest cardiovascular disease, affecting over a billion people all over the world and causing deaths due to target organs damage. Left ventricular dysfunction could be the result of hypertension causing a mechanical alteration of cardia...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/32894

Thoracolumbar Paraspinal Heterotopic Ossification (H.O)

Mohammadreza Etemadifar, Mohammad Hossein Jamalaldini & Rasoul layeghi · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

A rare disorder in the skeletal system is the fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP) that is a sever, disabling disease, autosomal dominant, occasionally sporadic, ectopic ossifying condition and involvement of the muscles together with malformation the great toe. We report...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/32285

Hearing Impairment among Children and Adolescents of Consanguineous Parents: A Study with Practical Challenges Encountered in Malakand, Northern Pakistan

Aftab Alam Sthanadar, Muhammad Zahid & Abdulbari Bener · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

Aim: The aim of the present study is to determine the prevalence of HI and its association with parental consanguinity in urban and rural areas of Malakand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Methods: In this community-based study, data was collected by random sampli...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JAMMR/2017/33713