Biosystems and Environmental Engineering Research Group, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. Electronic address: wgwenzi@agric.uz.ac.zw.
It was not until the nineteen nineties that there was scientific evidence for the primary treatment concept of glaucoma, lowering intraocular pressure. The treatment concept of lowering intraocular pr...
The 20-year data of the ocular hypertension treatment study showed a 49% incidence of primary open-angle glaucoma. The data of this landmark study was used for developing different machine learning al...
The number of published follow-up studies to the landmark studies in glaucoma show the ongoing development of clinical questions in management of glaucoma....
The COVID-19 pandemic was initially responsible for a global restricted access to healthcare resources including the follow-up of at-risk populations such as bariatric patients. We substituted face-to...
We retrospectively reviewed data collected on all patients scheduled for TC during the French lockdown period (March 15 to May 15, 2020) (N = 87). Our aims were to present the patients' outcomes at on...
Seven (8%) patients required FTFC, and 80 (92%) underwent TC (study population) for preoperative bariatric assessment (N = 3) and postoperative follow-up (N = 77) after 23.6 ± 29 months following surg...
TC is a satisfactory substitute for FTFC, enabling continued bariatric follow-up during and beyond the pandemic setting without compromising patient safety. However, the modest satisfaction outcomes a...
Prospective studies regarding tuberculous myelitis are lacking. We aimed to prospectively evaluate patients with tuberculous myelitis to identify the features that distinguish tuberculous myelitis fro...
This was a prospective study. Patients presenting with paraparesis/quadriparesis, and MRI showing myelitis were included. All patients were subjected to clinical, neuroimaging, and laboratory evaluati...
We enrolled 52 patients. Eighteen (34.6%) patients had tuberculous myelitis. Headache (P = 0.018) was significantly more common in tuberculous myelitis. The CSF protein (P < 0.001), and CSF cell count...
Tuberculous myelitis was seen in approximately 35% of all myelitis cases, in a high tuberculosis endemic zone. Headache, markedly elevated CSF protein and spinal meningeal enhancement were distinguish...
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with significant increases in sleep disorder symptoms and chronic worry. We previously demonstrated that worry about the pandemic was more strongly associated with...
In this multicenter retrospective study we aimed to evaluate the outcome of cardiac involvement in children affected by multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), assessed through cardiac magnetic res...
Despite the severity of heart involvement in the acute MIS-C phase, the mid-term cardiac outcome is good. Direct cardiac tissue viral invasion may be involved in MIS-C pathogenesis....
• Heart involvement is common in MIS-C, but conflicting findings have been shown regarding cardiac outcome when assessed through cardiac MRI....
• Midterm cardiac MRI shows mild abnormalities in patients recovered from MIS-C with any grade of severity of cardiac involvement at presentation....
Primary hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HypoPP) is an inherited channelopathy most commonly caused by mutations in CACNA1S. HypoPP can present with different phenotypes: periodic paralysis (PP), perma...
In this 3-year follow-up study, we used the MRC scale for manual muscle strength testing and whole-body muscle MRI (Mercuri score) to assess disease progression in individuals with HypoPP-causing muta...
We included 25 men (mean age 43 years, range 18-76 years) and 12 women (mean age 42 years, range 18-76 years). Two participants were asymptomatic, 21 had PP, 12 MW, and two PW. The median number of mo...
The study demonstrates that HypoPP can be a progressive myopathy in both patients with and without attacks of paralysis....
Medical care and technology have increased the survival of low birthweight babies (LBW), but especially in low- and middle-income settings the longer term thriving of such babies is not assured becaus...
A prospective descriptive cohort study of 49 newborns weighing less than 2.5 kg, born between April and August 2019. Data were recorded on their hospital stay, and they were followed up at 6 and 12 mo...
The mean birthweight was 1800 g at 35 weeks gestation (between 2nd and 9th centile). At 6 months of age the median weight was 6.5 kg (9th centile) and at 12 months it was 7.8 kg (9th centile). Three i...
It is vital that all LBW babies are followed up in the years after discharge: nutritional, developmental and general health outcomes were generally good; however, post-discharge deaths are more common...
Plasma cell vulvitis (PCV) is a rare inflammatory vulvar condition. The aim of this study was to describe the natural history, treatment, impact on quality of life, and factors associated with poorer ...
A mixed-methods approach was used combining a retrospective case note review with a cross-sectional telephone questionnaire. All women diagnosed with PCV attending the vulvar disorders clinic at the R...
During the 10-year study period, 7,500 women were seen at the vulval disorders clinic, of whom 21 were diagnosed with PCV (0.28%). Of these women, 12 who were followed up for more than 12 months agree...
Women with PCV can remain symptomatic for many years with significant impacts on quality of life, which may consequently require long-term support and follow-up....
This article describes the study design of the quantitative part of the VersKiK study, The primary objectives of this study are to examine the occurrence of late effects in survivors of childhood or a...
This is a non-interventional retrospective observational cohort study. It is based on stochastically linked insurance claims data from approximately 150,000 statutory insured persons with information ...
The growing group of survivors after cancer in childhood and adolescence is representing a special population with an increasing demand for life-long healthcare services through relative high probabil...
Loss to follow-up from lifelong antiretroviral therapy continued to be a major challenge affecting virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, especially in Su...
An institutional-based retrospective follow-up study was conducted among 365 women who were enrolled for option B+ prevention of mother-to-child transmission service between June 2013 and March 2021 i...
The overall incidence of loss to follow-up was 12.04 (95% CI: 9.50, 15.20) per 1000 person-months of observation time. Residing outside the catchment area (adjusted hazard ratio (AHR): 3.08, 95% CI: 1...
We found a higher incidence of loss to follow-up relative to previous studies in Ethiopia. Thus, strengthening adherence support interventions, and effective counseling on sero-status disclosure and m...
