Background and Purpose: Purpura fulminans (PF) is a rapidly progressive disease of small-vessel thrombosis and hemorrhagic skin infarctions with high mortality and morbidity. Three forms of disease exist; neonatal, idiopathic and infectious. Infectious one usually appears seconda...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/24131
Aims: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is seen in 15% of hospitalized patients and a renal ultrasound (RUS) is often ordered to exclude an obstructive cause in the initial evaluation of AKI. This study was done to evaluate the usefulness of a RUS in patients with AKI in a developing cou...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23827
Aims: To evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of atosiban in delaying preterm labour. Study Design: A prospective, open label, non comparative study. Place of Study: Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College Mumbai, India. Methodology: Pregnant women (N=110) between the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23823
Aim: Clinicians are often face the dilemma of choosing more appropriate antithrombotic regimen, since there is no evidence regarding the role of combination of Oral Anticoagulant (OAC) and antiplatelet which played in elderly patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Ischemic He...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23637
Aim: To evaluate the sexual practices of undergraduate university students in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in order to provide evidence for appropriate interventions. Study Design: A multi-stage random sampling design and stratified sampling proportionate to size was used...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23587
Schools have the responsibility to educate their students and encourage them to live healthy and hygienic behavior. This descriptive cross-sectional study aimed to determine the status of the school health instruction in 56 randomly selected schools in Nnewi North Local Governmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23737
Primary hypothyroidism may present with myriad of unusual presentation apart from typically described signs and symptoms. We report an unusual case of primary hypothyroidism clinically presenting as acute psychosis and radiologically mimicking as pituitary macroadenoma. A 19-year...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23244
Lymphatic malformation (lymphangioma) is an uncommon benign vascular tumour with unknown etiology, which is rarely seen in the abdomen. Clinically it may present with acute abdominal pain requiring surgery and may mimic many other intrabdominal emergencies. A case of a mesenteric...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23864
Aims: To study the relationship between brain dominance and academic performance among undergraduates. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Melaka Manipal Medical College (MMMC), Melaka campus, Malaysia, from April 2014 to June 2014. Methodology: A cr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22881
Objectives: The aim for this study was to investigate the effects of chronic restraint stress on the expression of mucins that comprises the integral component of the gastrointestinal barrier. Design and Methods: A completely randomized design was used for the study. Sixteen ICR...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/23764