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Surgery: Recent submissions
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(South African Medical Association, 2018-12)BACKGROUND : Significant mortality and morbidity occur after major lower limb amputation for diabetes-related foot complications and peripheral arterial disease. Risk factors for atherosclerosis and medical comorbidities ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2018-03)Reddy et al. present a worthy and timely review on breast cancer in HIV-infected patients. There is clearly a paucity of robust data on this important and common simultaneity. Some older retrospective reports describe ...
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(Baskent University, 2018)Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is a common cause of end-stage renal failure and an indication for transplant. The genetic mutation in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease also causes vascular ...
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(Wiley, 2018-10-31)BACKGROUND : Variceal haemorrhage that is refractory or recurs after pharmacologic and endoscopic therapy requires a portal decompression shunt (either surgical shunts or radiologic shunt, transjugular intrahepatic ...
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(Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2019-01)OBJECTIVES : Interleukin-21 (IL-21) is a cytokine associated with tissue inflammation, autoimmune and infectious diseases. Organ dysfunction and death can occur in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) in two distinct ...
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(Elsevier, 2019-01)INTRODUCTION : The influence of trauma- and surgical stress-induced decrease of CD4 count on anastomotic leaks after penetrating abdominal trauma has to date not been investigated. A prospective study was performed to ...
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(Wiley, 2018-05)No abstract available.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-06)BACKGROUND : Surgical training varies significantly amongst universities within the same country. This trend is reflected in South Africa and provides an opportunity for innovation to improve the quality of general surgical ...
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(Editura Celsius, 2018-05)Managementul necrozei pancreatice infectate a început cu necrozecto-mia deschisă precoce, asociată cu o mortalitate semnificativă. În ultimii ani, a avut loc o transformare bazată pe dovezi înspre abordarea progresivă ...
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(BioMed Central, 2018-04-23)BACKGROUND : Cryptococcosis is an important opportunistic infection of organ transplant recipients. It is the third most common fungal infection of transplant patients and occurs especially in kidney recipients. Cryptococcus ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)INTRODUCTION : Squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus is a common cancer among South Africans. Due to the absence of effective screening and surveillance programme for early detection and late presentation, ...
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(Elsevier, 2017-12)Colorectal carcinoma in children and adolescents is extremely rare, with an annual incidence <0.3 cases per million, most frequently reported in the second decade of life. It accounts for severe morbidity and poor prognosis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Introduction: Patients infected with the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are more prone to developing a hypercoagulable state. This may be due an upregulated inflammatory system resulting in a different coagulation ...
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(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018-06)This project investigated the in-vitro effects of a glycolytic inhibitor, 3-bromopyruvate (3-BrP), in combination with and a new in silico-designed inhibitor of the bromodomain-4 (BRD-4) protein, ITH-47, on the U937 acute ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-04)BACKGROUND : Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is characterised by two distinct clinical phases. Organ dysfunction and death is initially as a result of a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). Systemic sepsis from ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-02)BACKGROUND. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer in South Africa (SA), and the sixth most lethal. Approximately 25% of patients will have synchronous metastatic disease at the time of their primary CRC ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-07)BACKGROUND : Glycaemic control constitutes an important component in the management of critically ill patients. As such, all healthcare workers involved in the management of critically ill patients need to ensure that ...
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(PAGEpress, 2017)The incidence of esophageal cancer varies widely in the world. In the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and parts of Europe, squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus dominates the esophageal cancer landscape. Worldwide the ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-04)Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma (MASC) is a rare and recently described tumour of the salivary glands. MASC has similar histomorphological and immunohistochemical features of secretory carcinoma of the breast. MASC ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-05)BACKGROUND. Appropriate critical care admissions are an important component of surgical care. However, there are few data describing postoperative critical care admission in resource-limited low- and middle-income ...
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