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Validation of three pain scales among adult postoperative patients in Ghana.

BMC nursing

Aziato L, Dedey F, Marfo K, Asamani JA, Clegg-Lamptey JN.
PMID: 26265901
BMC Nurs. 2015 Aug 11;14:42. doi: 10.1186/s12912-015-0094-6. eCollection 2015.

BACKGROUND: Pain assessment is an important component of pain management and health professionals require valid tools to assess pain to guide their pain management decisions. The study sought to select, develop, and validate context-appropriate unidimensional pain scales for pain...

A CASE REPORT OF SUSPECTED ANGIOEDEMA IN A CHILD AFTER ADMINISTRATION OF MEBENDAZOLE, COTRIMOXAZOLE AND LEAF EXTRACTS.

Annals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine

Ashubu OF, Ademola AD, Asinobi AO.
PMID: 27721685
Ann Ib Postgrad Med. 2016 Jun;14(1):41-43.

Adverse drug reactions in children are an important public health problem. Children are at a higher risk of developing adverse drug reactions as they seldom express their own drug therapy experiences. Factors that have been implicated include polypharmacy especially...

Body composition and ankle-brachial index in Ghanaians with asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease in a tertiary hospital.

BMC obesity

Yeboah K, Puplampu P, Yorke E, Antwi DA, Gyan B, Amoah AG.
PMID: 27239322
BMC Obes. 2016 May 13;3:27. doi: 10.1186/s40608-016-0107-3. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: Ankle-brachial index (ABI) and indices of obesity are both use to indicate cardiovascular risk. However, association between body composition indices and ABI, a measure of peripheral arterial disease, is inconsistent in various study reports. In this study, we...

Haemodialysis for paediatric acute kidney injury in a low resource setting: experience from a tertiary hospital in South West Nigeria.

Clinical kidney journal

Asinobi AO, Ademola AD, Alao MA.
PMID: 26798463
Clin Kidney J. 2016 Feb;9(1):63-8. doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfv112. Epub 2015 Nov 14.

BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important cause of preventable mortality among children. Management of AKI may require renal replacement therapy (RRT) but access to RRT for children in low resource settings is limited. Our study explored the...

Arterial Stiffness in Nonhypertensive Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Ghana.

International journal of endocrinology

Yeboah K, Antwi DA, Gyan B.
PMID: 27774104
Int J Endocrinol. 2016;2016:6107572. doi: 10.1155/2016/6107572. Epub 2016 Sep 28.

No abstract available.

Screening for Cushing Syndrome at the Primary Care Level: What Every General Practitioner Must Know.

International journal of endocrinology

Yorke E, Atiase Y, Akpalu J, Sarfo-Kantanka O.
PMID: 28819359
Int J Endocrinol. 2017;2017:1547358. doi: 10.1155/2017/1547358. Epub 2017 Jul 27.

Cushing's syndrome is a rare entity, and a high index of suspicion is needed for screening in a primary care setting. The clinical awareness of the primary care physician (PCP) to the highly indicative signs and symptoms such as...

Relationship between oxidative stress and haematological indices in patients with diabetes in the Ghanaian population.

Clinical diabetes and endocrinology

Asmah RH, Yeboah G, Asare-Anane H, Antwi-Baffour S, Archampong TN, Brown CA, Amegatcher G, Adjei DN, Dzudzor B, Akpalu J, Ayeh-Kumi PF.
PMID: 28702226
Clin Diabetes Endocrinol. 2015 Aug 20;1:7. doi: 10.1186/s40842-015-0008-2. eCollection 2015.

BACKGROUND: Persistent hyperglycaemia is a hallmark of Diabetes Mellitus (DM). It causes increased production of free radicals, especially reactive oxygen species (ROS), - resulting in oxidative stress. Reactive Oxygen Species have been implicated in the development of haematological complications...

Sociodemographic and Clinical Determinants of Time to Care-Seeking Among Febrile Children Under-Five in North-Central Nigeria.

Oman medical journal

Abdulkadir MB, Ibraheem RM, Johnson WB.
PMID: 26421113
Oman Med J. 2015 Sep;30(5):331-5. doi: 10.5001/omj.2015.68.

OBJECTIVES: Our study sought to determine the time parents of febrile children under the age of five took to seek competent medical care. We also looked at the possible sociodemographic/ clinical factors that influenced this presentation.METHODS: Four hundred and...

Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana: impacts and challenges of health policies and programs.

Global health action

Kayode GA, Grobbee DE, Koduah A, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Agyepong IA, Ansah E, van Dijk H, Klipstein-Grobusch K.
PMID: 27558221
Glob Health Action. 2016 Aug 23;9:31907. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.31907. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: Following the adoption of the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) in Ghana to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, efforts were made towards its attainment. However, impacts and challenges of implemented intervention programs have...

Vitamin D levels are low in adult patients with sickle cell disease in Jamaica and West Africa.

BMC hematology

Tayo BO, Akingbola TS, Salako BL, McKenzie CA, Reid M, Layden J, Osunkwo I, Plange-Rhule J, Luke A, Durazo-Arvizu R, Cooper RS.
PMID: 25161768
BMC Hematol. 2014 Aug 16;14(1):12. doi: 10.1186/2052-1839-14-12. eCollection 2014.

BACKGROUND: Patients with sickle cell disease in the USA have been noted to have lower levels of vitamin D - measured as 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) - compared to controls. Average serum 25(OH)D levels are also substantially lower in African...

Peripheral sensory neuropathy in type 2 diabetes patients: A case control study in Accra, Ghana.

Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology

Yeboah K, Puplampu P, Boima V, Antwi DA, Gyan B, Amoah AGB.
PMID: 29067231
J Clin Transl Endocrinol. 2016 Jul 20;5:26-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jcte.2016.07.001. eCollection 2016 Sep.

OBJECTIVE: Peripheral sensory neuropathy (PSN) is a common cause of ulceration and amputation in diabetes (DM) patients. The prevalence of PSN in DM patients is largely undetermined in sub-Saharan African population. We studied the burden of PSN in DM...

Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Thrombus in a Child with Dilated Cardiomyopathy: An Atypical Location.

Journal of cardiovascular echography

Abdulkadir MB, Ibrahim OR, Afolayan FM, Adedoyin OT.
PMID: 28758062
J Cardiovasc Echogr. 2017 Jul-Sep;27(3):101-103. doi: 10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_46_16.

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) may be associated with formation of intracardiac thrombi which may embolize and result in life-threatening complications. We present a 19-month-old female child with DCM who presented with a right hemispheric cerebrovascular accident. Urgent echocardiography revealed poor...

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