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Clinical Medicine
Trends and outcome of instrumental vaginal delivery at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital: a five-year review
Background: Instrumental Vaginal delivery (IVD), a key component of essential obstetric care is a procedure used to shorten the second stage of labour reducing the need for caesarean sections in women who require assistance using either the forceps or Vacuum. However, despit…
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Clinical Medicine
Haematological parameters of regular and first-time male blood donors in a medium-sized hospital in north central nigeria.
Background: Haemoglobin concentration is the only parameter that is routinely done in order to determine donor fitness. Donors with non-symptomatic derangement in any of the other haematological parameters may therefore be recruited for blood donation. Aims: We determined th…
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Clinical Medicine
Plastic surgery during COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria: any need for postponement of elective surgeries?
The COVID-19 Pandemic is the most recent and ongoing pandemic with the most devastating consequences economically, politically, academically and socially due to the high fluidity of human movement in the 21st century. COVID-19 means coronavirus disease 2019 first detected in…
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Clinical Medicine
Relationship between serum Cobalamin levels and Neuropsychiatric Syndromes in individuals at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria, Nigeria
Background: Cobalamin deficiency causes defective methylation of myelin resulting in progressive neuropathy. This affects the spinal cord's peripheral sensory nerves and posterior and lateral columns. Inadequate methylation of myelin affects its quality and sufficiency with …
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Clinical Medicine
ABO and Rhesus –D blood group distribution among voluntary blood donors in north-central Nigeria.
Background: Understanding ABO and Rh blood group distribution is crucial for the functional and successful handling of blood bank inventory and effective management of safe blood transfusion services. The distribution of ABO and Rh phenotypes tends to vary among different re…
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Clinical Medicine
Spontaneous gastric perforation in neonates: case series and review of literature.
Spontaneous gastric perforation is a rare cause of pneumoperitoneum in neonates. It is an acute emergency in neonates requiring urgent laparotomy and repair of the perforation. Many theories have been discussed with respect to its aetiology but none has clearly defined the c…
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Clinical Medicine
Mild serotonin syndrome following isolated ingestion of fluoxetine overdose: a case report.
Self-poisoning with antidepressants is a relatively common method of completed or attempted suicide among patients with depressive disorders. Among these antidepressants, SSRIs for example fluoxetine, have been shown to have a relatively safe profile compared to other classe…
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Clinical Medicine
Emergency myomectomy for massive acute hemoperitoneum from avulsion of subserous uterine myoma following a fall: a case report
Uterine fibroids (myomas) are benign tumours commonly seen in women of reproductive age. The cause is generally unknown but it is associated with ovarian steroids. Uterine fibroids are usually asymptomatic but when they do, they usually heavy menstrual bleeding and pelvic pa…