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(South African Medical Association, 2018-12)BACKGROUND : Significant mortality and morbidity occur after major lower limb amputation for diabetes-related foot complications and peripheral arterial disease. Risk factors for atherosclerosis and medical comorbidities ...
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(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2023-06)BACKGROUND : Anorectal obstetric injuries resulting in anal sphincter damage (ASD) and rectovaginal fistula (RVF) remain a major problem. The resulting flatus or faecal incontinence is devastating. Surgical repair remains ...
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(In House Publications, 2022)Acute pancreatitis refers to acute inflammation of the pancreas, usually accompanied by abdominal pain and elevations of serum pancreatic enzymes. This syndrome is usually a discrete episode which causes varying degrees ...
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(AVES, 2023-03)The size of adrenal incidentalomas has important implications for diagnosis and management. Recommendations from endocrine societies do not all correlate with regard to adrenal incidentaloma size. Therefore, the aim was ...
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(Elsevier, 2022)Precision medicine is the personalization of medicine to suit a specific group of people or even an individual patient, based on genetic or molecular profiling. This can be done using genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic ...
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(MDPI, 2023-08-07)Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as one of the top causes of cancer mortality worldwide and its incidence is on the rise, particularly in low-middle-income countries (LMICs). There are several factors that contribute to the ...
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(2009-07)An aneurysm is defined as a localised dilatation of an artery with an increase in diameter of ≥ 50% than that of the 'normal' undilated adjacent vessel. Aneurysms may occur in all arteries but are most commonly found in ...
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(Mary Ann Liebert, 2012)BACKGROUND: The Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART) follows trends in resistance among aerobic and facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacilli (GNB) isolated from complicated intra-abdominal ...
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(Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd., 2011-11)Vascular complications during posterior lumbar disc surgery are rare and its presentation with varicose veins is even rarer. A 23 year-old male patient presented with large varicose veins in right lower limb. He underwent ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2018-03)Reddy et al. present a worthy and timely review on breast cancer in HIV-infected patients. There is clearly a paucity of robust data on this important and common simultaneity. Some older retrospective reports describe ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2007-05)OBJECTIVE : Various modalities are used for cerebral monitoring during carotid endarterectomy (CEA). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether transcranial cerebral oximetry (TCO) and carotid stump pressure (SP) are ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-12)In 1997, Nuss introduced a minimally invasive non-destructive procedure for pectus excavatum, which revolutionised the treatment of the condition. This review will give a brief history on the management of this condition, ...
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(In House Publications, 2022)Chronic calcific pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive fibro-inflammatory disease of the pancreas. In its later stages it is characterized by both exocrine dysfunction presenting as malabsorption and steatorrhea, and endocrine ...
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(Dove Medical Press, 2020-10)Each year, colorectal cancers (CRCs) affect over a quarter of a million people. The risk of developing CRC in industrialized nations is approximately 5%. When the disease is localised, treatment success rates range from ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2018-02)BACKGROUND. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer in South Africa (SA), and the sixth most lethal. Approximately 25% of patients will have synchronous metastatic disease at the time of their primary CRC ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2021-03)BACKGROUND : Approximately 25% of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) will be diagnosed with CRC liver metastases (CRCLM) during the course of their disease. No data regarding CRCLM presentation, management and survival ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)BACKGROUND : People infected with HIV are prone to venous thrombosis. Treatment of thrombosis is primarily with warfarin. No studies have addressed the effects of HIV infection on warfarin dose. The aims of this ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2023)BACKGROUND : Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a widely used diagnostic tool to evaluate salivary gland tumours. The Milan system for reporting salivary gland cytopathology allows for standardisation and facilitates ...
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(Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins:, 2018-12)BACKGROUND : The work-up of a thyroid nodule to diagnose malignancy is not always straightforward. There are various international thyroid societies each with their own guidelines on the approach to a thyroid nodule. The ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-09)BACKGROUND : Thyroid nodules are common. Most patients with indeterminate fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) results are subjected to thyroidectomy for fear of malignancy. However, only 20–30% of these cases are found ...
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