Juvenile diabetes mellitus clinical spectrum in Zambian children.
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Adolescent↗
Biomedical subjects
C Chintu
Publications and source records attributed to C Chintu.
Tuberculous manifestations in children.
An analysis of 110 cases of primary tuberculosis in Zambian children revealed that 47% of them had protein energy malnutrition. Of all pulmonary manifestations, simple primary tuberculosis was predominant followed by segmental lesions. A high incidence of extra pulmonary involvement mainly tuberculous lymphadenitis was observed. Previous BCG inoculation was not protective in 37 (33.6%) children.
BCG Vaccine↗
Neuroblastoma--an unusual presentation.
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Adrenal Gland Neoplasms↗
Differential solubility test for haemoglobin S.
Two hundred and seventy-eight blood specimens were examined, both by the Sicklequik solubility test and haemoglobin electrophoresis on paper. Two hundred and sixty specimens (96.04%) were correctly identified by the Sicklequik solubility test. Forty-nine out of fifty (98%) specimens were interpreted identically when examined independently by two observers.
Blood Protein Electrophoresis↗
Perinatal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Lusaka, 1976.
A prospective study of perinatal and neonatal mortality and morbidity at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka for 1976 is presented. The early neonatal mortality of the babies born in hospital was 28.7 per 1000 live-births; it was 239.96 per 1000 admissions of those born outside the hospital. The still-birth rate in the hospital-born babies was 25.2 per 1000 deliveries; the perinatal mortality was 53.3 per 1000 deliveries; and the neonatal mortality in the hospital-born was 31.1 per 1000 live-births. The cause of death were asphyxia, infections could injury, respiratory distress syndrome, congenital malformation and intracranial haemmorrhage. If the perinatal and neonatal mortality and morbidity are to be reduced, much effort and co-operation of all concerned with the health of the expectant mother, and her child are required. Records of birth-weights, stillbirth, and causes of deaths in the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) for the year 1976 have been analysed. The aim is to provide a basis for future comparisons and improvement of the care given to newborns.
Female↗
Childhood tuberculosis and infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.
TB in HIV-infected individuals is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries and poses enormous problems to the health services. Despite the availability of curative therapy, the incidence of TB in children and adults is increasing at an alarming rate and poses a grave threat to TB control programmes in developing countries. Prospective studies to define basic clinical, microbiological and epidemiological features of the resurgence of childhood TB in the light of the HIV epidemic are required.
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections↗