Introduction: Leukaemias are a group of heterogenous neoplastic diseases resulting from malignant transformation of hematopoietic cells. Acute leukaemias are the group of diseases characterised by the infiltration of immature myeloid or lymphoid series cells into the blood, bone marrow or other tissues. ...
Steroid-resistant acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) of the gastrointestinal tract associates with important morbidity and mortality. While high-dose steroids are the established first-line therapy in GVHD, no second-line therapy is generally accepted. In this analysis of 65 consecutive patients ...
The most common reason for readmission in these patients is a dehydration with a prevalence of acute renal failure (ARF) of 20%. The objective of this study was to establish the predictive factors of ARF in patients with protective ileostomy after surgery for rectal cancer from a bicentric ...
Objective: Hepatitis A infection is an acute, self limiting disease due to infection of the liver by hepatitis A virus, an enterically transmitted virus which is a member of the Picornaviridae family. The infection may be asymptomatic or may cause an acu...
We sought to determine the pattern of presentation of acute appendicitis, and the effect of late presentation on surgical outcome in children. Methods This is a retrospective descriptive study done at the paediatric surgical unit of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, ...