Issue 1 Articles

Prevalence and Awareness of the HBsAg Status Among Pregnant Women in the Labour Room of the Ebolowa Regional Hospital

1. Abstract 1.1. Background: Most cases of chronic hepatitis B virus occur during child birth and early horizontal transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa, our study aimed at determining the level of awareness of the HBsAg status by pregnant women at the delivery room of the Ebolowa Regional Hospital and evaluate the prevalence of HBsAg among them.

Colectomy to Successfully Stop Bleeding Due to Idiopathic Colonic Vascular Varices After Failure of Local Endoscopic Treatment and Radiological Embolization. A Case Report

1. Abstract Colic varicose veins, a specific type of ectopic varicose veins, and their incidence is low. At present, there is no uniform standard for the choice of treatment. The purpose of this article is to present a case of a 52-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for intermittent melena for 3 years. A …

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Application of Transcatheter Arterial Embolization in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Small Bowel Bleeding

1. Abstract 1.1. Aim: Acute small bowel bleeding is a life-threatening condition that can result in death. Embolization is considered to be the first line for treating lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding when surgery cannot be carried out. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of this technique retrospectively in a group of patients …

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Drug Repurposing for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Based On Relations Among Drugs, Diseases and Genes

1. Abstract Drug repurposing, which treats new and other diseases utilizing existing drugs, has turned into a much-valuable strategy. It can also be referred to as re-examination of existing drugs that have failed to indicate utility for new diseases. In this work, we mainly focused on finding inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) associated drugs based on …

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Acute Pancreatitis as First Manifestation of Severe Hypothyroidism: A Rare Case Report

1. Abstract We described the case of a 34-year-old Bangladeshi man with an unremarkable personal and family history who presented to the emergency department with severe upper abdominal pain of one day’s duration and with elevated serum amylase and lipase. Further work-up revealed a serum triglyceride level of 39.8 mmol/L and his thyroid function test …

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