Involving men in reproductive health advocacy in the United Republic of Tanzania.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Biomedical subjects
D Popoola
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Rationale for the Surgical Treatment of Severe Obesity.
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Journal Article↗
Small bowel obstruction: review of nine years of experience.
Strong evidence in the literature suggests that improvements in the management and outcome of small bowel obstruction result from early diagnosis, better fluid and electrolyte replacement, use of antibiotics, and early surgical intervention. This paper reviews the outcomes of 49 male and 31 female patients who were operated on for small bowel obstruction. The average age was 38 years (range, 3 to 87 years); the average hospital stay was 13 days. There was one death. The causes of obstruction included postoperative adhesions (78 percent), strangulated external hernia (11 percent), gangrenous bowel (4 percent), intussusception (2.5 percent), appendiceal mass (3.5 percent), and Meckel's diverticulum (1 percent). The outcome was worse with late presentation, perforation or gangrene of the bowel, and delayed surgery.
Adolescent↗
Traumatic pancreatic pseudocysts.
At the Martin Luther King, Jr, General Hospital in Los Angeles, during the period from June 1972 to April 1981, seven patients underwent surgery for traumatic pancreatic pseudocysts. The overall average age was 28 and the average hospital stay was 31 days. Ultrasound was the most useful test for diagnosis and follow-up. Preoperatively, serum amylases were not consistently elevated. Overall recurrences and complications totaled 57 percent. There were no deaths. The authors consider a large cystogastrostomy the treatment of choice for mature cysts that are satisfactorily adherent to the stomach. The second preference is a Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy. External drainage was employed for acute cysts that required drainage. A distal pancreatectomy was performed for patients with small pancreatic tail pseudocysts. Patients who underwent acute drainage were usually drained externally and had a poorer outcome than patients who were operated on later with internal drainage. When compared with another group of 15 alcoholic patients who were operated on for pancreatic pseudocysts, patients with traumatic pseudocysts had a poorer outcome.
Abdominal Injuries↗