Resuscitation with intravenous fluid therapy is considered a corner stone in the management of critically ill patients in most acute conditions. In daily practice, the assessment of individual thresholds in order to optimize cardiac preload and avoid hypovolemia or deleterious fl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20278
Aims: To acquire preliminary information in order to assess the efficacy of a university-based exercise program developed to serve members of the community suffering from symptoms associated with cancer fatigue. Study Design: The pilot study included 35 adult cancer patients who...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20214
Aim: To study (1) effect of pioglitazone mono-therapy on body composition in treatment naive type-2 diabetes mellitus patients and (2) relationship between changes in body composition and insulin resistance induced by pioglitazone. Methods: Subjects: 49 newly diagnosed non-obese...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21556
Aim: To estimate prevalence of TB among inmates and staff of three prisons in south India. Place of Study: The study was undertaken in three purposively selected prisons in Karnataka State, India, namely, Belgaum, Mysore and Mangalore prisons. Methodology: A descriptive, cross-s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21444
Ranula is a cystic lesion arising in the oral cavity in relation to the sublingual gland. Typically ranulas are unilateral although there has been a report of superficial dissecting ranula crossing the midline thus presenting as a bilateral lesion. This article is about our exper...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20419
Jorge Pontual Waked, André Cavalcante da Silva Barbosa, Alexandre Batista Lopes do Nascimento, Caio Belém Rodrigues Barros Soares, Márcia Maria Vendiciano Barbosa Vasconcelos, Aronita Rosenblatt, Evelyne Pessoa Soriano & Arnaldo de França Caldas Júnior·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2015
Aims: Evaluating the prevalence of tooth loss, edentulism, prosthetic rehabilitation needs and the use of dental prosthesis as well as determine associations between tooth loss and age, sex, economic classification and race of the population studied. Methodology: A cross-sectiona...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21515
Background: Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is defined as a suspect endoscopic finding followed by pathologically proven specific intestinal metaplasia as opposed to the normal squamous epithelium of the esophagus. A new BE classification, the Prague C and M criteria, was proposed in 20...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20339
Aims: To compare blood loss following vaginal delivery by two different methods: visually estimated blood loss (vEBL) and calculated estimate of blood loss (cEBL). Study Design: Postpartum blood loss was analyzed during 2 different time frames: 1. Traditional estimation (vEBL) of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19239
Aim: To determine the normal and extremes of values for interpupillary distance [IPD] amongst adults in Ogun State, South Western Nigeria. Methodology: A population based cross-sectional study. Multi-staged stratified random sampling was used to select respondents from seven Loca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19152
It’s been over 60 years since the wide spread use of penicillin saved millions of lives from infection. Today there is a rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance and it’s on the increase with each passing day. The dentists are responsible for a large number of antimicrobials p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19817
Under the guide of the medical models, we clearly know the nature of many diseases. However, a lot of complicated diseases, the polygenic and multi-factorial diseases for example, are remained unexplained. Here, we proposed a new medical model, namely the Environment - Genetic -...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21532
Pericarditis is the most common cardiac manifestation of Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but pericardial effusion infrequently happens as the first clinical sign of SLE. We report the case of a previously healthy 19 years old male patient whose initial manifestation of lupus...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21490
Aims: To ascertained and compared the knowledge and attitude of public and private health-care workers in South-East, Nigeria on hospital-acquired infections. Study Design: A cross sectional surveillance report. Place and Duration of Study: Randomly selected hospital workers in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/18272
Aims: To determine the antibiotic resistance patterns and virulence factors of coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) associated with urinary tract infections (UTIs). The virulence factors assayed for were the atl E and ica AB genes. The prevalence of the antibiotic resistance...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19912
Background: Epilepsy is usually stigmatized in the developing world because of the poor knowledge. The health workers in Nigeria are generally regarded as the custodians of medical information irrespective of their designation in the health care institution. Their opinion in heal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/19812