Douala General Hospital
Late presentation to HIV/AIDS care at the Douala general hospital, Cameroon: its associated factors, and consequences
... the Douala general hospital, and was defined as having a CD4+ T cell count done at least within 3 months of diagnosis < 350 cells/mm3 or being at an advanced stage of the disease (WHO stage 3 or ...
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HIV-associated sensory neuropathy in HIV-1 infected patients at the Douala General Hospital in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
... Methods: Using the Brief Peripheral Neuropathy Screening (BPNS) tool validated by the AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) we carried out a cross sectional study to determine the prevalence of HIV-SN and its associated ...
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Tuberculous meningitis: presentation, diagnosis and outcome in hiv-infected patients at the douala general hospital, cameroon: a cross sectional study
... the Douala General Hospital is according to national guidelines [16] by antibody detection on two successive samples using a third generation ELISA test BIOREX® (Biorex Diagnostics Limited, Antrim, ...
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Malnutrition in patients admitted to the medical wards of the Douala General Hospital: a cross sectional study
... the Douala General Hospital, a 320 bed tertiary medical Institution located in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon which has a population of about 3 million ...
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Toxoplasma encephalitis in HIV/AIDS patients admitted to the Douala general hospital between 2004 and 2009: a cross sectional study
... the Douala General Hos- pital (DGH), a tertiary referral hospital in Douala, the largest city in ...the Douala General Hospital was sought and ...
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Osteo Articular System at the Douala General Hospital
... The osteo-articular system corresponds to all the anatomical structures that support the human body. It includes bone skeleton, joints and muscles. It is a system that is permanently exposed to different pathologies. In ...
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Sleep Quality on Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients in Douala General Hospital in Cameroon
... the Douala General Hospital hemodialysis center of Ca- meroon involving 46 chronic hemodialyzed patients for at least six months with arteriovenous ...
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Epidemiology, Clinical Presentations and In Hospital Mortality of Venous Thromboembolism at the Douala General Hospital: A Cross Sectional Study in Cameroon, Sub Saharan Africa
... The objective of this cross-sectional descriptive study was to describe the epide- miology, clinical presentations, and outcome of VTE at the Douala General Hospital (DGH). VTE was seen in 4.4 cases ...
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Spectrum of Meningitis in Adult at the Douala General Hospital
... In spite of the progress made in diagnosing and treating of meningitis, it is still a problem in sub-Saharan Africa due to its high frequency and serious complications. Since the advent of HIV infection, there has been a ...
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Hepatitis B and C, HIV, Syphilis Seroprevalences and Asymptomatic Carriage of Hemoparasites Among Blood Donors at the Douala General Hospital in Cameroon, Central Africa
... On other hand, hepatitis prevalences obtained in this study where slightly higher than that observed in Laquintinie hospital in Douala [12], while the prevalence rate of syphilis infection is 7-fold lower. ...
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Fatal outcomes among patients on maintenance haemodialysis in sub-Saharan Africa: a 10-year audit from the Douala General Hospital in Cameroon
... Methods: Medical records of ESRD patients who started chronic haemodialysis at the Douala General Hospital between 2002 and 2012 were reviewed. Baseline characteristics and fatal outcomes on dialysis ...
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Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Malformations in Douala General Hospital
... Objectives: To determine the prevalence of congenital malformations and the proportion of cases diagnosed before birth; to specify this proportion according to the type of malformation and the sonographer qualification. ...
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Cesarean delivery technique among HIV positive women with sub optimal antenatal care uptake at the Douala General Hospital, Cameroon: case series report
... Keywords: Cesarean section, Vaginal delivery, Human immunodeficiency virus, Antenatal care visits, Viral load, CD4 count Background Cesarean section is one of the most commonly performe[r] ...
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Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Pattern at the General Hospital, Douala, Cameroon
... the General Hospital, Douala, ...the Douala General Hospital in second intention and by non-medical ...the General Hospital, Douala during the last ten years ...
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Microbial Ecology and Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile of Germs Isolated from Hospital Surfaces and Medical Devices in a Reference Hospital in Douala (Cameroon)
... the Douala General Hospital were found to be highly contaminated by pathogenic environmental bacteria and certain yeasts; this allows us confirming the existence of a microbial ecology probably ...
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Stroke Epidemiology in Douala: Three Years Prospective Study in a Teaching Hospital in Cameroon
... in Douala and its environs, while ...and Douala can explain the referral of patients to the Douala General hospital which is better equipped to handle cerebrovascular ...
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Why do pregnant women present late for their first antenatal care consultation in Cameroon?
... According to WHO, early ANC refers to initiation of antenatal care as soon as possible after confirmation of pregnancy and or within the first 12 weeks of gestation whereas late ANC is starting ANC after 12 weeks of ges- ...
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Pattern and Management of Neural Tube Defect in Cameroon
... the Douala General Hospital is a referral hospital where such pathologies are properly ma- naged, all the cases of neural tube defects in Douala are not managed ...referral ...
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Epidemiology, Clinical and Paraclinical Presentations of Pulmonary Embolism: A Cross Sectional Study in a Sub Saharan Africa Setting
... 1) Douala General Hospital (DGH), a tertiary care level and teaching hospital; 2) Douala Military Hospital (DMH), a second level hospital; and 3) the Centre des Maladies ...
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Prevalence and causes of blindness at a tertiary hospital in Douala, Cameroon
... Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon and political capital of the Littoral region, has a population estimated at more than 2.5 million inhabitants with two tertiary hospitals: the General ...
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