Mwangala, Muyendekwa M (1993) The Acute Abdomen in the University Teaching Hospital: A Comparative Study of the Outcome of Surgery in HIV Seropositive and Seronegative Patients. Other thesis, University of Zambia.
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Abstract
with the emergency of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) most disease presentations have been modified or altered in seropositive patients. At mortality meetings in the Department of surgery the increased mortality and morbidity noted has often been attributed to the positive HIV status of the patient. There has been no factual data to support such a relationship other than the reports emanating from the literature. Because of the widespread belief that seropositivity is associated with a poor outcome some surgeons have been reluctant to offer surgical treatment to patients who are HIV seropositive. In other words the decision to operate or not is often based on the results of a single test alone. Is there justification for such a course of action? In order to address this important issue a prospective comparative study was undertaken to compare the outcome of surgery in seropositive and seronegative patients with acute abdomen.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Other) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RD Surgery |
| Divisions: | Comparative |
| Depositing User: | Geoffrey Obatsa |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2019 10:49 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2019 10:49 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9208 |
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