Background: Self-care behaviors are the most important way to prevent frequent hospitalization, improve the quality of life, and reduce mortality in patients suffering from heart failure. Aims: To assess the preventive self-care behaviors and its associated factors in heart failu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21499
Background and Aim: Cervical Traction (CT) is a vital physiotherapeutic modality in the management of cervical musculoskeletal disorders. This study determined the cardio-respiratory responses to CT using different percentage body weights on Apparently Healthy Individuals (AHI)....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21885
Background: Sickle cell anaemia (SCA), a common haematological genetic disorder, could affect both the growth and haematological profile of the sufferer. Objectives: This study aims at determining any correlation between anthropometric variables and haematological parameters amon...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21621
Background: While malaria rarely occurs in many parts of the world, it still causes serious complications like acute kidney injury (AKI) in endemic areas and needs to be reported. Methods: This study was carried out at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Paki...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21471
Nephrotic Syndrome (NS) is primarily a pediatric disorder, common in pre-schooler and school aged children. Immunosuppresive drugs like prednisolone, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine A (CsA) has been the main treatment regimen in the management of Nephrotic syndrome. This has remai...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21806
Objective: Most children experience some degree of fear during their development. Excessive fears can create serious obstacles to children. The aim of this study was to identify the most common fears in a sample of children and adolescents and examine the socio-demographic correl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22552
Background/Aim: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of sporadic and epidemic cases of enteric non-A non-B hepatitis in humans. It estimated that 14 million symptomatic cases of HEV infection, with 300,000 deaths and 5,200 stillbirths occur annually worldwide, with developing...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/15467
Mixed Cryoglobulinemia (MC) is the most severe among the extrahepatic manifestations of hepatitis C virus. It is a circulating immune disease due to a virus-induced proliferative disorder of B lymphocytes, mainly involving low and medium-sized vessels. Diagnosis of cryoglobulinem...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21610
Aims: To present the combined spinal-epidural anesthesia and postoperative analgesia in two geriatric patients, with low Ejection Fractions (EF) that underwent hip fracture surgery. Presentation of Case: Herein, 90 and 106-years-old geriatric patients respectively, with low eject...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22382
Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is considered the most health problematic in Egypt. Its severity ranges from mild illness to serious complications as cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Keratins emerge as markers of liver injury beside significant contributors to liver di...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22003
Pulmonary nocardiosis is a severe opportunistic infection in which chronic lung disease along with long term steroid therapy is the most significant predisposing factor. Demonstration of Nocardia in even potentially contaminated sample like sputum, warrant strong warning signal o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22356
Background: Patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) who are positive for e antigen (HBeAg) and have a high viral load are considered to be poor therapeutic responders to pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN). The aim of this study was to assess the therapeutic response of sequenti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21870
Introduction: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the 6th most common cancer worldwide and a greater burden of this disease is born by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) endemic and resource deficient sub-Sahara Africa. This investigation was carried out to determine the pattern of hepato...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21772
Cadmium is a relatively rare soft metal that occurs in the natural environment typically in association with zinc ores and to a lesser extent, with lead and copper ores. It is highly toxic to both human and animals because it is widely distributed in the environment and is used i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/16017
Introduction: Patients suffering from pituitary apoplexy present with variable clinical symptoms and imaging findings. Imaging findings may differ between hemorrhagic and non-hemorrhagic apoplexy. Our study aimed to better define imaging findings in both hemorrhagic and non-hemor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/22132