BACKGROUND: Cesarean delivery carries both short term and long-term fetal and maternal complications. Among the complications hemorrhage requiring hysterectomy or blood transfusion, incision extension,surgical site infection, ...
Background: Antenatal care is one of the key strategies for reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality directly through the detection and treatment of pregnancy related illness, or indirectly through detection ...
Background: Hepatitis B virus is a public health problem worldwide. WHO in 2015, two hundred fifty million people were living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection worldwide, and that 900 000 had died from HBV ...
Background: Every year a lot of people are injured due to road traffic accidents. The majority of these injuries include long bone fractures, and the best treatment for these injuries is the surgical fixation with an ...
Introduction
Traditional bone setting is a practice of treating musculoskeletal disorders by untrained persons rely on manual physical assessment and their main principles are manipulation and immobilization by applying ...
Background: Humeral shaft fractures accounts 3% to 5% of all fractures with the incidence of 14.5 per 100,000 per year but debate still occurs as to whether these are best managed operatively or conservatively. The purpose ...
Introduction: The Magnitude of delayed long bone fracture fixation was variable in deferent setups; it reached 67.7% to 81 %. The reasons mentioned were shortage of operating theater slot, increased age, sever associated ...
Introduction: Fractures of the tibial plateau involve the articular surface of the proximal tibia. The functional outcome tibial plateau fracture in resource-limiting countries was not known. Factors that most predictably ...
Background: Infection has been associated with significant morbidity, mortality and increased medical cost after intramedullary nailing. The overall infection rate for open tibia fractures treated with the SIGN nail in ...
Background: -Orthopaedic surgery has a long and rich history. It is important to recognize the successes and failures of the past, in order to advance research and practice as well as improve patient care, satisfaction ...
Introduction: Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) has become the global “epidemic” with an estimated of 2.5% (177.5 million) people currently infected worldwide. In Ethiopia the pooled prevalence estimated is 2%. HCV infection ...
Background - Relevant clinical information that prompted radiologic examination of the patients should be provided by referring physicians for accurate interpretation of images by radiologists. Many studies from secondary ...
Background: Spleen is the largest lymphoid solid organ containing reticuloendothelial system and located intraperitoneally in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. Knowledge of the normal range of spleen size in the ...
Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common acute abdomen presentation. Clinical and laboratory findings are the mainstay of diagnosis of acute appendicitis..But the clinical diagnosis is not always straightforward, ...
Background: Thick Nuchal Translucency detection by ultrasound has emerged as a powerful prenatal screening strategy to diagnose a myriad of birth defects and syndromes. Abnormal Nuchal Translucency thicknesses should be ...
Background : large-bowel obstruction (LBO) is an abdominal emergency, with high morbidity and mortality rates if left untreated While LBO may develop over a protracted period of time, the clinical presentation is often ...
Background:- Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection is the second most common prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial infection. Currently, the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant N. gonorrhoeae isolates is a concern. ...
Background: Malaria is one of the killer diseases those caused by Plasmodium. Despite this, diagnosis is mainly based on clinical presentation having low specificity. Hence, prompt and reliable laboratory diagnosis is ...
Back ground: Tuberculosis is an infectious (TB) disease caused by M. Tuberculosis. TB generally affects the lung but can also affect other parts of the body. Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) spread the disease ...
Background: Undernutrition is an acute or chronic form that is a major public health concern in resource-limited settings. In addition to this, its dual relation to HIV infection results in physical, mental, social, ...