African health sciences
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Clinical application of optical coherence tomography angiography in diabetic macular edema.
Diabetic macular edema (DME) is characterized by a retinal thickening or hard exudation deposition in the fundus microvasculature, capillary leakage, increased vascular permeability, extracellular fluid accumulation in the fovea of a foveal disc. Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a new item of fundus structure examination. OCTA is to reconstruct the retinal choroidal vascular structure from the continuous same cross-sectional views and blood flow signals obtained by optical scanning, thereby obtaining an image. It is very significant to evaluate, diagnose, treat and manage the disease.
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Prevalence and factors associated with suboptimal blood pressure among ambulatory patients with diabetic kidney disease attending a tertiary hospital in Uganda.
Kidney failure prevalence is increasing among diabetic kidney disease (DKD) patients in low-income countries. Suboptimal blood pressure (BP) drives kidney failure and mortality. The burden of suboptimal BP and its associated factors among these patients are not well documented. ⋯ The prevalence of suboptimal BP was high among the overweight, obese, unemployed and alcohol users. Thus, there is a need for better BP control interventions.
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Antibody response to pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 10 among Nigerian children under 5 years.
Invasive pneumococcal diseases have been a major contributor to childhood mortality, particularly in the developing world and pneumococcal vaccines were introduced to reduce the burden. The Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 10 (PCV 10) was incorporated into the Nigerian National Programme on Immunization (NPI) in 2014 to reduce the incidence of childhood pneumococcal infections. This study was done to determine the immunogenicity of the vaccine in our clime. ⋯ All the children under the age of five years who had received PCV 10 at 6, 10 and 14 weeks of age, who participated in this study formed protective levels of antibodies to the vaccine. Antibody levels increased slightly with age. The PCV 10 currently used in the Nigerian programme is sufficiently antigenic and a downward trend in pneumococcal diseases should soon be noticeable.
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Study on effectiveness analysis of multi-media combined with PBL teaching in breast surgery.
To explore the effectiveness of multi-media combined with PBL teaching in breast surgery. ⋯ Multi-media combined with PBL teaching can effectively improve students' professional knowledge theory level, operation skills, enhance students' enthusiasm and initiative, develop good clinical thinking habits, and have high teaching satisfaction. It is worthy of being popularized in the clinical teaching of breast surgery.
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African health sciences · Jun 2023
Interferon in the treatment of ill adults with Covid-19 in the Republic of Guinea.
Effective and safe antiviral treatments are required to refrain the COVID-19. ⋯ The interferon resulted effective and safe in contributing to the viral replication conversion to negative results in shorter time and to survival.