Background: Vaginal device NaturGyn Scarlett® (Shaanxi Zhongbang Pharma - tech. Co. Ltd) was developed thousands of years ago for treatment of vaginal discharge and discomfort. It contains 8 herbal substances at standardised percentage. Methods: The efficacy of this corpuscle is...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34500
General purpose media for growing fastidious pathogenic Gram negative (FGN) bacteria are limited to non-selective blood and chocolate agar. These suffer from excessive contamination with fungi, Gram positive, and Gram negative bacteria, especially Pseudomonas spp. MacConkey agar...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34450
Background: Burns injury has a global distribution and contributes to trauma mortality and morbidity. Whereas mortality from burns is reducing in most developed countries, the picture in developing countries such as Nigeria still remains gloomy. Better understandings of the patho...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34268
Background: Problems pertaining to menstruation are generally perceived among women as normal variation in body physiology and often not regarded as a serious health issue that requires public health attention. They only presents to our outpatient gynaecological clinics to seek m...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/29332
Aim: Artemisinin resistance was confirmed in Southeast Asia in 2009, and a molecular marker of resistance to artemisinin as point mutations in the region of the kelch13 gene (k13) coding for the C-terminal propeller domain of Kelch13 (K13-propeller) gene, was discovered in Cambod...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34192
We present a case of abdominal pain in an 18-year-old-female which was ultimately diagnosed to be due to bilateral renal infarction. The etiology of this finding was determined to be a transient antiphospholipid syndrome, a rare but known cause of renal infarction in the pediatri...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/33611
Introduction: Bone tissue is non-homogeneous, porous and anisotropic. Compact bone contains a hierarchical structure of interconnected channels, and cancellous bone is the spongy construction with the biphasic of viscous fluid and elastic solid materials. Fluid flow in and out ha...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/30457
Background: Systemic hypertension is the commonest cardiovascular disease, affecting over a billion people all over the world and causing deaths due to target organs damage. Left ventricular dysfunction could be the result of hypertension causing a mechanical alteration of cardia...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/32894
A rare disorder in the skeletal system is the fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP) that is a sever, disabling disease, autosomal dominant, occasionally sporadic, ectopic ossifying condition and involvement of the muscles together with malformation the great toe. We report...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/32285
Aim: The aim of the present study is to determine the prevalence of HI and its association with parental consanguinity in urban and rural areas of Malakand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Methods: In this community-based study, data was collected by random sampli...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/33713
Background: The prevalence of coronary artery lesions (CAL) is higher in older children compared with younger children. Anti-inflammatory drugs including aspirin appeared to have a negative impact on the suppressive effects of initial intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy for...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34047
Aim: This study assessed the impact of nutrient intake and physical activity level on nutritional status of undergraduate university students Study Design: Cross sectional study design. Place and Duration of Study: School of allied health sciences, University for development stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/33335
Aims: We investigated whether Lp-PLA2 activity of blood samples collected 24 h after hospital admission could serve as a predictor of future cardiovascular events in Vietnamese patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In addition, we correlated Lp-PLA2 with common risk factor...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/33587
Background: Tuberculin skin tests (TST) are long established screening methods for tuberculosis (TB). We aimed to compare Mantoux test (a TST) in smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis adults and control subjects. From January to December 2015, 131 patients with smear positive pul...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34166
Background: Nasogastric tubes (NGT) are used in the clinical setting for the management of patients who require nutritional support amongst others. Knowledge of the perceptions and Myths about NGT use would help address the problem associated with its use so that patients care ca...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/34464