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Cesarean Delivery for a Life-threatening Preterm Placental Abruption.

Annals of medical and health sciences research

Okafor II, Ugwu EO.
PMID: 27057388
Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2015 Nov-Dec;5(6):466-8. doi: 10.4103/2141-9248.177986.

Placental abruption is one of the major life-threatening obstetric conditions. The fetomaternal outcome of a severe placental abruption depends largely on prompt maternal resuscitation and delivery. A case of severe preterm placental abruption with intrauterine fetal death. Following a...

Context matters: A community-based study of urban minority parents' views on child health.

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

Bolar CL, Hernandez N, Akintobi TH, McAllister C, Ferguson AS, Rollins L, Wrenn G, Okafor M, Collins D, Clem T.
PMID: 27275021
J Ga Public Health Assoc. 2016;5(3):212-219.

BACKGROUND: Among children, there are substantial ethno-racial minority disparities across a broad range of health-related behaviors, experiences, and outcomes. Addressing these disparities is important, as childhood and adolescence establish health trajectories that extend throughout life.METHODS: The current study employed...

Evaluation of Factors Delaying Discharge in Acute Orthopedic Wards: a Prospective Study.

European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society

Rambani R, Okafor B.
PMID: 26815487
Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2008 Feb;34(1):24-8. doi: 10.1007/s00068-007-6184-8. Epub 2007 Jul 23.

INTRODUCTION: Prolonged hospitalization due to delayed discharge not only increases cost, it also increases the risk of medical complications e.g., hospital acquired infections. Length of stay (LOS) is one of the indicators that reflect total cost of care during...

Abdominal pregnancy- a case report.

Journal of the West African College of Surgeons

Okafor I, Ude A, Aderibigbe A, Amu O, Udeh P, Obianyo N, Ani C.
PMID: 25452947
J West Afr Coll Surg. 2011 Jan;1(1):121-30.

A case of abdominal pregnancy in a 39 year old female gravida 4, para 0(+3) is presented. Ultrasonography revealed a viable abdominal pregnancy at 15 weeks gestational age. She was initially managed conservatively. Surgical intervention became necessary at 20...

A proposed UAV for indoor patient care.

Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine

Todd C, Watfa M, El Mouden Y, Sahir S, Ali A, Niavarani A, Lutfi A, Copiaco A, Agarwal V, Afsari K, Johnathon C, Okafor O, Ayad M.
PMID: 26409533
Technol Health Care. 2015 Sep 10; doi: 10.3233/THC1046. Epub 2015 Sep 10.

Indoor flight, obstacle avoidance and client-server communication of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) raises several unique research challenges. This paper examines current methods and associated technologies adapted within the literature toward autonomous UAV flight, for consideration in a proposed...

Using brothel leadership to promote condom use among brothel-based female sex workers in Abuja, Nigeria: study protocol for a cluster randomized pilot trial.

Pilot and feasibility studies

Okafor U, Crutzen R, Okekearu I, Adebajo S, Uzoh A, Awo EA, Chima C, Agwagwa O, van den Borne B.
PMID: 28239486
Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2017 Feb 20;3:10. doi: 10.1186/s40814-017-0124-0. eCollection 2017.

BACKGROUND: The HIV prevalence among female populations involved in sex work in Nigeria has heightened interest in HIV prevention programming for this sub-population with brothel-based female sex workers (BB FSWs) having a prevalence of 27.4%, six times higher than...

Changing Pattern of Bacteriuria among Asymptomatic Secondary School Adolescents within Enugu South East Nigeria.

Annals of medical and health sciences research

Nwokocha A, Ujunwa F, Onukwuli V, Okafor H, Onyemelukwe N.
PMID: 25328783
Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2014 Sep;4(5):728-32. doi: 10.4103/2141-9248.141537.

BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infection is one of the infections that could lead to chronic kidney disease. Most of the offending isolates are usually Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli. Adolescent age groups are a special group of individuals who...

Follicular Bronchiolitis: A Literature Review.

Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR

Tashtoush B, Okafor NC, Ramirez JF, Smolley L.
PMID: 26500941
J Clin Diagn Res. 2015 Sep;9(9):OE01-5. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/13873.6496. Epub 2015 Sep 01.

Follicular bronchiolitis (FB) also known as hyperplasia of the bronchial associated lymphoid tissue (BALT), or bronchiolar nodular lymphoid hyperplasia, is an entity characterized by the development of lymphoid follicles with germinal centers in the walls of small airways. FB...

Knowledge, awareness and perception of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among antenatal patients at Nnewi, Nigeria.

Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Obiechina NJ, Nwosu OB, Okafor CI, Ikpeze OC.
PMID: 12521863
J Obstet Gynaecol. 2001 May;21(3):292-4. doi: 10.1080/01443610120046440.

This study investigates STD knowledge, awareness and perception among antenatal patients at a Nigerian teaching hospital. There was general awareness of the common STDs, such as gonorrhoea, 95.5% (n=127) and syphilis 66.92% (n=89), while the least awareness was recorded...

On the condensation of salicylaldehyde with hydrazine.

Talanta

Okafor EC.
PMID: 18962251
Talanta. 1978 Apr;25(4):241-2. doi: 10.1016/0039-9140(78)80016-2.

A simple procedure for preparing uncontaminated salicylaldehyde hydrazone is outlined. The condensation reaction of salicylaldehyde and hydrazine in 2:1 molar ratio usually gives initially a mixture of the three geometrical isomers of salicylaldazine: one isomer is bright yellow, another...

Biotechnology and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.

World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

Okafor N.
PMID: 24421003
World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 1994 May;10(3):243-8. doi: 10.1007/BF00414855.

Whether development is defined by the long-standing economic parameter of per capita gross national product (GNP) or by the newly introduced Human Development Index (HDI), which is not based exclusively on per capita GNP, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa...

Comparison of the performance of two measures of central adiposity among apparently healthy Nigerians using the receiver operating characteristic analysis.

Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism

Okafor CI, Fasanmade O, Ofoegbu E, Ohwovoriole AE.
PMID: 22029004
Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Oct;15(4):320-6. doi: 10.4103/2230-8210.85588.

OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) in predicting the presence of cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension and generalized obesity) in an apparently healthy population.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We recruited 898 apparently healthy subjects (318...

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