scholarly journals SUN-394 RENAL FUNCTION CORRELATION WITH HISTOLOGIC ACTIVITY AND CHRONICITY INDICES IN ADULT PATIENTS WITH GLOMERULONEPHRITIDES AT OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS COMPLEX ILE-IFE

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. S361-S362
Author(s):  
T. BAMIKEFA ◽  
A. Adelakun ◽  
A. Adefidipe ◽  
B. Omosule ◽  
R. Ezengowa ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Patrick O. Echekwube ◽  
Olayinka A. Olasode ◽  
Emmanuel O. Onayemi

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Vitiligo is a depigmentary dermatosis which currently has no cure but there are different treatment options available to treat affected patients with varying results. The aim of the study was to ascertain the effect of PUVAsol therapy offered to adult patients with vitiligo at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> All consecutive adult patients with vitiligo who presented at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals complex, Ile-lfe and gave consent were recruited for the study which was for a period of 6 months. Patients with limited disease were treated with topical PUVAsol and those with extensive disease were treated with oral PUVAsol. The outcome of therapy for the patients was classified into three categories as follows: progressed (P), stable (S) and repigmented (R). The repigmented group was further sub-classified into fair (R1) and good (R2) representing ≤50% and &gt;50% repigmentation of areas affected respectively.<strong></strong></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> After 6 months of therapy, most of the patients (92%) had repigmentation of their lesions while the remaining had either stable lesions (6%) or progression of their lesions (2%). Amongst the patients whose lesions got repigmented, 96% of them had repigmentation in less than half of the areas affected by vitiligo which was a fair outcome.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> PUVAsol is a treatment modality for vitiligo with some repigmentation of lesions following therapy for 6 months. PUVAsol therapy could be recommended in resource poor settings because of its low cost and availability in most parts of Nigeria.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibraheem Olayemi Awowole ◽  
Olusegun Olalekan Badejoko ◽  
Oluwafemi Kuti ◽  
Omotade Adebimpe Ijarotimi ◽  
Oluwaseun Oludotun Sowemimo ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Akaninyene Eseme Ubom ◽  

Nigerian women of southwest extraction have the highest rate of dizygotic twinning worldwide, with a reported incidence as high as 49 per 1000 deliveries. Among the risk factors for dizygotic twinning is advanced maternal age, which is also an independent risk factor for Down syndrome (trisomy 21). Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal disorder affecting live born neonates. It occurs very rarely in twins, seen in 14-15 per million non-identical twins. Down syndrome in one of non-identical twins was first reported in Nigeria by Otaigbe in Port Harcourt, in 2007. Herein, we report another case of suspected Down syndrome in one of non-identical twins born to a 41-year-old grand multiparous woman at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria. Keywords: Down Syndrome; dizygotic; fraternal; dichorionic; diamniotic.


2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 207-209
Author(s):  
Adam Moreton ◽  
Andrew Collier

Aims and methodTo determine the provision of teaching in psychiatry for foundation doctors up to the point of making specialty applications. Data for the cohort of foundation doctors entering training in 2010 were collected from teaching programmes across the Mersey Deanery and North Western Foundation Schools.ResultsIn the 17 hospitals that provided data, ‘protected teaching’ totalled 2354 h; 1.8% of time was dedicated to psychiatry, with 4 hospitals providing no teaching on mental health topics. The mean duration of psychiatry teaching was higher in university teaching hospitals (3 h 34 min) than district general hospitals (2 h 57 min); and almost a quarter of teaching sessions were titled only ‘psychiatry’.Clinical implicationsFor many foundation doctors their only experience of psychiatry will be through teaching sessions, and this is potentially the only time to change opinions and build interest in the specialty. Psychiatrists need to take a more active role in the provision of high-quality teaching for foundation doctors and become the visible role models which are currently lacking.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document