Aims: To evaluate the pattern of skin prick test results of atopic dermatitis patients. Study: This was a retrospective study. Data were collected for the results of skin prick tests for atopic dermatitis patients who attended the King Abdul Aziz University Medical Services Derma...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5903
Aims: As differences in promoter activity and CD30 surface expression between CD30+ lymphoid cell-lines and peripheral blood leukocytes have been shown previously to be independent of the size of the CD30 promoter microsatellite, in this study we investigate the instability withi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6420
The relationship between glycated haemoglobin, fasting plasma glucose, packed cell volume and albumin creatinine ratio in diabetic patients in south-south Nigeria was investigated in 118 diabetic patients (80 females and 38 males) and 36 apparently healthy controls (20 females an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4713
Aim: To know whether one of the commercially available immunochromatographic tuberculosis tests is comparable with the widely available method, direct sputum microscopy. Design: The study prospectively validated the pulmonary tuberculosis rapid test kit using the reference standa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5802
Aims: The aim of the study was to determine the extent of compliance and non-compliance with treatment of psychiatric patients and examine the factors affecting compliance and non-compliance with treatment. Study Design: Hospital based prospective descriptive study. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6127
Aim: To assess the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) on the cost of the tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Study Design: Prevalence based cohort Place and Duration of Study: Penang General Hospital, Hospital USM, and– Univesiti Malaya Medical Center; 2005 – 2008. Methods: Study patients...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2013/3394
Aim: This study assesses the effects of prevention education, prevention personal motivation, prevention knowledge, and past exposure to violent living conditions on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection prevention behavioral skills among historically black college and Uni...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5917
Background and Objectives: Chronic heart failure (CHF) is an increasingly widespread, costly and deadly disease, frequently named as an epidemic of the 21st century. Herbal treatments may provide promising & beneficial treatment for heart failure. But unfortunately there is n...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4571
Aims: We present this case to raise awareness of this unusual presentation of a malignant anomalous right coronary artery arising from the left coronary cusp in a patient older than 50 years. We describe a useful imaging modality and discuss therapy. Presentation of the Case: We...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5508
We present the case of a 66-year-old man under surveillance for oropharyngeal malignancy. The presentation was that of recent onset recurrent syncopal attacks associated with neck pain. Both bradycardia and hypotension were seen during the syncopal events. Although recurrence of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5992
Background: Silent myocardial ischemia is defined as objective documentation of myocardial ischemia in the absence of angina or anginal equivalents. There are a number of reports of exercise-related sudden deaths and myocardial infarctions in aerobically trained athletes sufferin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6145
Distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is seen in the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) population in the setting of hypergammaglobulinemia and antiretroviral agents, whereas isolated HIV infection is rarely reported to be associated with dR...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6650
We report the case of a 10 year old girl with a late diagnosis of a high grade osteosarcoma (Stage IIb) of the right femur in a low income setting. The diagnosis could clinically have been made much earlier if the observation of an enucleated congenitally blind left eye due to a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5037
Aims: Previous researches identified the gene for Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) and found several different gene mutations that cause this inherited rheumatic disease. The aim of this work is to investigate the correlation between severity of symptoms of FMF and the number a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5311
Aims: To objectively evaluate the level of scientific research of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs) of the provincial capital cities in China. Design：To compare each capital city’s scientific research output in China, the authors used authoritative Chinese datab...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5599