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Research Articles (Surgery): Recent submissions
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)BACKGROUND : People infected with HIV are prone to venous thrombosis. Treatment of thrombosis is primarily with warfarin. No studies have addressed the effects of HIV infection on warfarin dose. The aims of this ...
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(Elsevier, 2016-10)INTRODUCTION : Breast cancer is the most common cancer of women in the world. Twenty-five percent of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reside in South Africa. The coincidence of breast cancer and ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-06)A 54-year-old woman developed a fungating locally invasive anaplastic thyroid cancer with distant metastases, and was treated with aggressive tumour reduction, using a Cavitron® Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator. This mode ...
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(New Media Publishing, 2016-08-09)This document is designed to briefly explain why a medical aid rate is unreasonably low. It is not only an unethical rate, but has in fact been deemed illegal, not covering cost of practice and dismissed in a court of ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-02)Historically considered an expensive, inefficient and limited public healthcare initiative, the place of surgery as the ‘forgotten stepchild’ of public health now leaves almost 5 billion individuals worldwide unable ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-03)BACKGROUND. There are few studies that look at the influence of diabetes mellitus on early outcome following carotid endarterectomy (CEA). Those available have reported conflicting results, with some showing poor outcome ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-11)BACKGROUND. The role of the pharmacist has evolved over the last 2 decades beyond traditional functions such as stock control and dispensing. OBJECTIVES. To describe the functions performed by a clinical pharmacist while ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-10)Lower limb varicose veins are a common complication of bipedal human movement and deep-vein thrombosis. However, they may have unusual causes, e.g. forming as collaterals around an obstruction or resulting from vascular ...
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(Elsevier, 2015-01)INTRODUCTION : Penetrating injury may involve the major vessels in the abdomen. Injury to the abdominal inferior vena cava (IVC) is uncommon and is usually caused by gunshot wounds. Mortality from IVC injuries is high ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-08)BACKGROUND. There is a perception among general surgeons that there are deficiencies in surgical training in South Africa (SA). Dependence on under-resourced state training institutions possibly plays a role. The opinions ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)BACKGROUND : Resectional breast surgery has become less extensive. Dissection on plane of the superficial fascia covering the breast (juxtacapsular) is used during various procedures for retention of the appearance of ...
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(Faculty of Law, North West University, 2013)The words locum tenens originate from Latin meaning "one holding a place". This phrase dates back to the middle ages when the Catholic Church provided clergy to parishes where there was no priest available. These travelling ...
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(Medkow Publications, 2013-01-14)Single incision laparoscopic surgery is used in many centres for routine cases such as appendisectomy, splenectomy and cholecystectomy. Morgagni hernias are uncommon and account for 1-2% of all congenital diaphragmatic ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-09)The Western Cape Department of Health (WC DoH) has taken a decision to withdraw all intravenous fluids (IVFs) containing hydroxyethyl starch (HES) from hospitals in the Western Cape, with similar action contemplated in the ...
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(Mary Ann Liebert, 2012)BACKGROUND: The Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART) follows trends in resistance among aerobic and facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacilli (GNB) isolated from complicated intra-abdominal ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-08)Diverticula of the oesophagus are rare. They can occur at any level, and are often defined by their anatomical location. Three categories are recognised, namely pharyngo-oesophageal, parabronchial and epiphrenic. Although ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-08)INTRODUCTION: Surgery is sometimes performed on patients with peau d'orange (dermal oedema) of the breast. This may be done to achieve local control of cancer after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy or in resectable locally advanced ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-08)One of the most serious and frustrating complications after successful primary repair of a tracheoesophageal fistula is a recurrent fistula, the incidence of which is reported as 5 - 15%. Secondary recurrences following ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-08)Gastric bypass leads to the remission of type 2 diabetes independently of weight loss. Our hypothesis is that changes in bile flow due to the altered anatomy may partly explain the metabolic outcomes of the operation. ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-05)OBJECTIVES: Endovascular repair (EVAR) is accepted as effective treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and has become the standard of care in many instances. The standard bifurcated stentgraft (BFG) is often not ...
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