Abstract Background: Men’s involvement can impact the delays in the decision to seek health care and in reaching a health facility, which are contributing causes for increased maternal mortality. Despite of the call to involve men in antenatal care, their participation is not well understood. This study aimed to determine the level of men’s involvement in antenatal care and the factors influencing their involvement in these services. Methods: A cross sectional study of 966 randomly selec...
Abstract Introduction: Primary Caesarean Section (CS) is an operation that is performed for the first time on a pregnant woman. Primary CS is of particular interest because it has an influence on future modes of delivery. There is also an issue about the original indication for the procedure both in a woman who has never tried her pelvis for vaginal delivery and a woman who has delivered vaginally in the past. Objectives: To determine the prevalence, indications, and outcomes of primary CS de...
ABSTRACT Background: Improving maternal health is one of the goals to be achieved under the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 3. Worldwide, half a million women die each year from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications which can be prevented by skilled birth assistance. One of the determinants of maternal health is the place of childbirth. Giving birth at home leads to a high risk of maternal and child mortality. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and factor...
ABSTRACT Background: Intestinal obstruction is one of the most causes of cause of surgical emergency associated with morbidity and mortality in surgical department. The study aimed to determine the causes and predictors of management outcome in postoperative patients with intestinal obstruction at IRRH. Method: A prospective hospital based study design was used. Duration of the study was six months. The collected data were checked for any inconsistency, coded and entered into SPSS version 20...
ABSTRACT Background: This study aims to determine the administrative competencies of nurse managers, working in Tertiary Hospitals of Tanzania. Method: This was a cross-sectional study design with a quantitative research approach. Simple random sampling was employed to select two zones out of the five zones listed in Tanzania. The purposive sampling method was used to select three public tertiary hospitals and nurse (N=276). Standardized structured questionnaires were used as the main data c...
Abstract Background and Aim: Cigarette smoking is a classical and a major risk factor in the development of several diseases with an inflammatory component, including cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and dyslipidemia. The aim of this study to evaluate the plasma levels of high sensitive c-reactive protein, magnesium and lipid profile in smoker’s subjects. Materials and methods: This was descriptive cross-sectional study conducted during the period from April ...
Abstract This is a case control study to estimate Prothrombin Time, Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time among hypertensive patients in AL- Gezira state at the period from March to May 2019. A total of 100 subjects were enrolled for this study, study population divided into case study group (n=50) who were hypertensive patients, and apparently healthy subjects as control group (n=50). Both, they're matched in age and sex. Venous blood sample (1.8ml) was collected in 3.2% tri sodium citrate ...
Abstract The pulmonary tuberculosis is infectious and chronic disease; increase morbidity and mortality due to morbid condition develop during the stage of disease like anemia and Pancytopenia. This was a case control study which aimed to study the CBC parameters and iron profile in active pulmonary tuberculosis patients to detect the effect on CBC and iron profile (S. iron, S. ferritin, TBIC, saturation %) and to detect frequency and the type of anemia in these patients. One hundred twenty ...
Abstract This was a descriptive experimental study conducted in Sudan University of Science and Technology (College of Medical Laboratory Sciences). The aim of this study was to determine the antimicrobial activity of different concentrations of Acacia nilotica pods extracts against selected reference bacterial strains using ethanol, chloroform, and aqueous extracts by agar diffusion method. Six reference bacterial strains were tested [Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922), Klebsiella pnemoniae (ATC...
Abstract Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by Hepatitis C virus (HCV) which affects the liver . The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of HCV among patients with Diabetes type 2 in Marawi Al skary Hospital at Northern State The study was conducted during the period between march to July 2017. A total of ninety (n=90) blood specimens were obtained from 48 males and 42 females diabetic patients .Five ml of blood was collected .Sera were obtained by centrifugation ...
Abstract Breast cancer comprises 10.4% of all cancer incidence making it the second most type of non skin cancer and the fifth most common cause of cancer death. Breast cancer is about 100 times more common in women than in men, but survival are equal in both. it constitutes 13-35% of all female cancer. The aim of this study is to determined the Complete Blood Count in Sudanese females with breast cancer under treatment with ( Chemotherapy, Radiation or mastectomy) . This is a hospital based...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out in Khartoum State during the period between May 2013 to February 2014, aimed to evaluate twotechniques smear preparation methods for Ziehl–Neelsen (ZN) staining for acid fast bacilli (AFB) in patients with signs and symptoms of tuberculosis and compared with PCR as reference method. Ninety sputum samples were collected from different TB centers in Khartoum State including Abu Anga Hospital, the National Reference Tuberculosis Laboratory, and Elsha’ab T...
Abstract Camel glandular sac areas were previously considered as water stores. Recently these sacs are found to be glandular areas which probably perform absorption, fermentation and secretion functions. This investigation which was conducted on thirty five adult camels and ten camel fetuses which were collected from Tamboul slaughterhouse during the period 2|2013 – 2|2014, aimed to study the morphology (gross anatomy, histology, ultrastructure, histometry) and histochemistry of camel glan...
Abstract The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of Ultrasound in detecting the impact of diabetes mulletus on carotid arteries. This study was done among 60 Sudanese patients. The data were collected during the period April 2012 to April 2013 in clinic of College radiological science and other clinics in Khartoum hospitals, all patients were affected with D.M. Divided into two groups: Group (1) 50 patients, the study depends on practical scanning of carotid arteries of all patient...
Abstract Brucellosis is one of the bacterial zoonotic disease that affects both man and animal and has considerable impact on public health and economy. This Study was carried out to update information about prevalence of brucellosis in cattle in the north Darfur state, Sudan. The study was extended from April to November 2019. The objective was to estimate the prevalence of brucellosis in cattle and to investigate risk factor associated with the disease . Two hundred and thirty blood for se...