INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide with a larger impact in Africa. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a desirable modality of renal replacement ...

Abstract: Background and objectives: Diabetic retinopathy (DR), the primary retinal vascular complication of diabetes mellitus, is a leading cause of visual impairments and blindness. The risk factors for DR include ...

Background A good doctor-patient relationship is important for quality health care delivery. Measures that improve such will improve health outcomes. The online social media has become an important part of our daily living ...

Background: Hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (HDP) is a leading and preventable cause of pregnancy-related acute kidney injury globally. This systematic review and meta-analysis determined the prevalence of AKI in cases ...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with eye diseases such that the diabetic patients may even first present to the ophthalmologist where the diagnosis of DM is made. The trends in the pattern of eye diseases ...

Snake bite is a common problem in Nigeria and indeed in many parts of the world. [1] There seems to be a seasonal variation in the cases of snake bites that are reported. Although snake bite can happen anytime of the year, ...

E. coli, which is one of the main causes of both nosocomial and community acquired infections, particularly diarrhoea in children and has been variously reported to develop or acquire resistance to a variety of ...

INTRODUCTION: HCV is recognized as the major cause of transfusion associated and sexually transmitted sporadic chronic non-A non-B hepatitis. There is a high degree of genetic variability from HCV genomes isolated from ...

Introduction: coronavirus disease, (COVID-19), was a pandemic with high global morbidity and mortality, partly due to a lack of preparedness. People´s knowledge, belief, attitude, and perception of disease outbreaks may ...

BACKGROUND: Massive upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (UGIH) is a common surgical emergency. It is however uncommon for it to present as the only site of bleeding in a patient with septic abortion. OBJECTIVE: To report ...