School of Medicine: Recent submissions
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Surgical Apgar Score Predicts Post-Laparatomy Complications
(Annals of African Surgery, 2013-09-20)Introduction: The Surgical Apgar score (SAS) presents a simple, immediate and an objective means of determining surgical outcomes. The score has not been widely validated in low resource settings where it would be most ... -
Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa.
(Science (New York, NY), 2014-06-01)Our understanding of genome biology, genomics, and disease, and even human history, has advanced tremendously with the completion of the Human Genome Project. Technological advances coupled with significant cost reductions ... -
Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014-04-20)Our understanding of genome biology, genomics, and disease, and even human history, has advanced tremendously with the completion of the Human Genome Project. Technological advances coupled with significant cost reductions ... -
Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study)
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Aims Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) accounts for over a million premature deaths annually; however, there is little contemporary information on presentation, complications, and treatment. Methods and results This ... -
Prevalence, Associated Risk Factors and Progression Of Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease At Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2016)The prevalence of peripheral arterial disease worldwide has been estimated at between 4.5% and 29%. Peripheral arterial disease can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. It is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity ... -
Seven key actions to eradicate rheumatic heart disease in Africa: the Addis Ababa communiqué: cardiovascular topics
(Sabinet, 2016-05-01)Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remain major causes of heart failure, stroke and death among African women and children, despite being preventable and imminently treatable. From 21 to 22 ... -
Clinical outcomes in 3343 children and adults with rheumatic heart disease from 14 low-and middle-income countries: two-year follow-up of the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease …
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017-11-08)BACKGROUND:There are few contemporary data on the mortality and morbidity associated with rheumatic heart disease or information on their predictors. We report the 2-year follow-up of individuals with rheumatic heart disease ... -
Prevalence, Progression and Associated Risk Factors of Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease
(The Surgical Society of Kenya, 2017)Introduction: The prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) ranges between 4.5% and 57% and is independently associated with cardiovascular disease burden irrespective of symptoms. Two thirds of cases are thought to ... -
Perioperative patient outcomes in the African Surgical Outcomes Study: a 7-day prospective observational cohort study
(Elsevier, 2018-04-21)There is a need to increase access to surgical treatments in African countries, but perioperative complications represent a major global health-care burden. There are few studies describing surgical outcomes in ... -
Employment Cost Index, Historical Listing–Volume V: Continuous Occupational and Industry Series: September 1975-December 2017. Table 4: employment cost index for total …
(RTI International, 2019-05-05)Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies, brings together in a single document the most up-to-date statistics related to heart ... -
Maternal and neonatal outcomes after caesarean delivery in the African Surgical Outcomes Study: a 7-day prospective observational cohort study
(Elsevier, 2019-04-01)Maternal and neonatal mortality is high in Africa, but few large, prospective studies have been done to investigate the risk factors associated with these poor maternal and neonatal outcomes. Methods A 7-day, international, ... -
Explaining the slowdown in medical spending growth among the elderly, 1999-2012.
(RTI International, 202-03-03)The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, annually reports on the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular risk factors, including core ... -
Interleukin (IL)-13 promoter polymorphisms (-7402 T/G and-4729G/A) condition susceptibility to pediatric severe malarial anemia but not circulating IL-13 levels
(BioMed Central, 2013-12)In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission areas such as western Kenya, severe malarial anemia [SMA, hemoglobin (Hb) < 6.0 g/dL, with any density parasitemia] is the most common clinical manifestation of severe ... -
(− 7402 T/G and-4729G/A) condition susceptibility to pediatric severe malarial anemia but not circulating IL-13 levels
(Bio Med Central, 2013)In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission areas such as western Kenya, severe malarial anemia [SMA, hemoglobin (Hb) < 6.0 g/dL, with any density parasitemia] is the most common clinical manifestation of severe ... -
Elly O. Munde, Winnie A. Okeyo, Samwel B. Anyona, Evans
(2012)An understanding of the immunogenetic basis of naturally acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum infection would aid in the designing of a rationally based malaria vaccine. Variants within the Fc gamma receptors (Fc ... -
The lipid acyl-chain dynamics in giant liposomes and characterization of domain 4 of the Wilson disease protein
(2010)Steady-state and nanosecond time-resolved fluorescence of the nitro-2, 1, 3- benzoxadiazol-4-yl (NBD) probe and line tension force were determined in phospholipids acyl-chain dynamics in giant liposomes made from a homologous ... -
Selective Blockade of Trypanosomatid Protein Synthesis by a Recombinant Antibody Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi P2β Protein
(Public Library of Science, 2012-05-03)The ribosomal P proteins are located on the stalk of the ribosomal large subunit and play a critical role during the elongation step of protein synthesis. The single chain recombinant antibody C5 (scFv C5) directed against ... -
Proteins Associated with SF3a60 in T. brucei
(Public Library of Science, 2014-03-20)Trypanosoma brucei relies on Spliced leader trans splicing to generate functional messenger RNAs. Trans splicing joins the specialized SL exon from the SL RNA to pre-mRNAs and is mediated by the trans-spliceosome, which ... -
Depletion of trypanosome CTR9 leads to gene expression defects
(Public Library of Science, 2012-04-20)The Paf complex of Opisthokonts and plants contains at least five subunits: Paf1, Cdc73, Rtf1, Ctr9, and Leo1. Mutations in, or loss of Paf complex subunits have been shown to cause defects in histone modification, mRNA ...