ABSTRACT The fatty liver is one of diseases that can be discovered when performing routine abdominal ultrasound and noted that its prevalence increased. Although of its wide prevalence and serious prognosis, there was no previous study determined the prevalence of fatty liver in Sudanese. The main objective of this study was to know the prevalence of fatty liver disease in adult Sudanese using ultrasonography; linking it by obesity. One hundred and fourteen patients aging between 18 to74 yea...
Abstract This study aimed to determine the molecular characterization and serological cut-off (Copro-Antigen ELISA) of E. histolytica and G. lamblia in Khartoum State. A crosssectional study was conducted in period between August, 2014 to August, 2017. Epidemiological and parasitological data were obtained and recorded. 300 stool samples were collected from all participants, (100 infected with E. histolytica, 100 infected with G. lamblia and 100 healthy individuals as control group). All sam...
Abstract Metabolic Syndrome is a serious medical condition with increase risk of multiple cancers, has effects on the life quality. It is a problem found all over the world and Sudan. Also it is fatal unless controlled and treated properly. A case control study conducted to compare the plasma level of magnesium and phosphorus of 50 randomly selected patients with metabolic syndrome as case group(age range 40-80 years) and 50 apparently healthy as control group (matched age and gender). Parti...
English Abstract Background: cardiovascular diseases is the most important cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with type2 diabetes mellitus and the TG:HDLc ratio recently used as predict subject at increased risk of developing metabolic and cardiovascular complications and HDLc level are inversely related to plasma TGs level and there is a dynamic interaction between high density lipoprotein and triglycerides rich lipoprotein in vivo. Method: The study includes 52 diagnosed diabe...
Abstract Background: Endometrial abnormalities pose diagnostic challenges for radiologists and gynecologists. The endometrial appearance is influenced by several factors, such as age, menstrual status, pregnancy and hormonal therapy. Amongst these, menstrual status is potentially the most influential factor affecting endometrial thickness. Methodology: This is a prospective, descriptive case study, conducted to assess the endometrium thickness in postmenopausal Sudanese women. The study was...
Abstract This study to measure the thyroid volume in normal adult Sudanese male and female in Khartoum in altamuze hospital .All the subjects were scaned for thyroid by measured thyroid volume on the affected subjects were evaluated by using (Alpinion-Ecube 7) ultrasound machine by 7.5 MHZ linear transducer from July to September 2016 . The study involved 53 subjects 31 of which female whereas 22were male aged (20-30) years .the data analysed using excel Microsoft office programme and SPSS ....
ABSTRACT Introduction: Anaemia in pregnancy remains a major health problem with adverse maternal and fetal outcome worldwide, especially in developing countries such as Tanzania. Taking proper nutrition, including taking iron supplement, child spacing and absence of negative food cultural practices and taboos, may prevent anaemia during pregnancy. The study aimed to establish prevalence, nutrition and obstetric factors associated with anaemia among pregnant women at Mnazimmoja, Mwembeladu an...
ABSTRACT Background: Nursing care plan has been identified as critical nursing practice and as a specified individualized model of a patient-centered care approach. Although several challenges, such as an inadequateness of implementation fidelity during nursing care plan, an excessive number of tasks assigned to the nursing team, poor quality of professional education and insufficient reports on the physical examination related to the disease and health determination haunt its effectiveness....
ABSTRACT Introduction: Virological failure is one of the common challenges facing HIVinfected adultsonantiretroviral therapy programmes particularly in resource limited settings. Objective: This study was done to determine the prevalence of virological failure and associated factors among HIV-infected adults receiving second line antiretroviral therapy in Dodoma city, Tanzania. Methodology: A cross-sectional analytical hospital-basedstudy of HIV-infected adults on second line antiretroviral ...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Knowledge and skills in the nursing profession are crucial for clinical practice in order to provide quality nursing care to patients. The purpose of the study was to evaluate nursing students’ knowledge and skills in the assessment of critically ill patients and to explore the associated factors. Methodology: A cross-section study which involved 464 diploma nursing students in the St. John’s University of Tanzania, the University of Dodoma and tertiary nursing sch...
ABSTRACT Background: Early diagnosis and prompt treatment of childhood febrile conditions are essential for reducing the progression of the illness to severe disease and, therefore, decrease mortality among under five children. This study aimed to assess the health-seeking behavioural patterns and self-medication practices of caregivers on managing childhood febrile conditions in Singida Region. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in Singida Region at Ir...
Abstract This descriptive retrospective cross sectional study was carried out in Omdurman teaching hospital, during the period from March to October 2015, to detect the association between human papilloma virus infection and non-melanoma skin cancers. The study included 40 formalin fixed paraffin embedded blocks previously diagnosed as skin cancers , 20 samples were diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma and 20 samples were basal cell carcinoma. From each block only one section with 3µm in di...
Abstract Kidneys may be exposed to many pathological conditions due to Diabetes mellitus which is a common multi-systemic disease with serious effects on the urinary system and was considered the main causes of chronic renal failure in worldwide . This disease may lead to some renal changes in morphology and function, The aim of this study was to evaluate the renal changes in diabetic patient using ultrasound scan . This cross-sectional –case control study was done in Khartoum and north ku...
Abstract This study was conducted among blood donors in Central Blood Bank of Khartoum. On a total of ninety tow samples were collected, during the period from March to May 2018, to demonstrate the frequency of syphilis and to compare between different diagnostic methods for detection of syphilis. All samples were tested from ELISA, ICT and RPR. The seroprevalence of syphilis revealed from ELISA method was 7(7.6 %), which was equal to ICT but was slightly increase in RPR 8 (8.7%). The high f...
Abstract Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an important enteric human pathogen worldwide distribution. It can cause sporadic cases as well as large epidemics of acute hepatitis. Many studies proved that HEV infection in pregnancy leads to poor maternal and fetal outcome, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy. The current study is descriptive cross-sectional study aimed to determine the prevalence of HEV among pregnant women attending El Ribat University Hospital in Khartoum, during the per...