Incidence of hepatotoxicity of highly active antiretroviral therapy in a tertiary health centre in Nigeria.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of hepatotoxicity of HAART in HIV infected patients in a tertiary health centre in Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: This study was carried out on HIV patients on HAART attending infectious disease clinic, gastroenterology clinic or admitted into the medical wards of University of Benin Teaching Hospital. HAART-naive HIV patients were used as controls.

Indications for oesophagogastroduodenoscopy in Ilorin, Nigeria--a 30 month review.

Background: Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy is one of the most commonly performed endoscopic procedures. Properly performed, it provides valuable information in patients with upper gastrointestinal conditions. Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy is a visual examination of the upper intestinal tract using a lighted, flexible fibreoptic endoscope or videoscope.

Comparative study of stool antigen test and serology for Helicobacter pylori among Nigerian dyspeptic patients--a pilot study.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the stool antigen (SAT) and immunoglobulin G (IgG) serology tests for Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients in Nigeria, and determine their usefulness.

Method: Forty six patients with dyspepsia and age and sex-matched healthy controls had their blood and stool collected and screened for H. pylori infection using the enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) IgG serology and SAT respectively.

Pattern and outcome of medical admission of elderly patients seen at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin.

The elderly are increasingly been hospitalised into medical wards in Nigeria and little information is currently available on this group of patients. The objective of this study was to describe the demographic, clinical characteristics and outcome of management of elderly patients admitted into medical wards at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Ilorin, Nigeria. A retrospective study in which hospital records of patients admitted between years 2001 to 2004 were reviewed.

The relationship between gallstone disease and gall bladder volume.

Background: The role of a large gallbladder volume with regards to a predisposition to gallstones is unknown. It is likely that an increase in gallbladder volume could result in impaired gallbladder motility and bile stasis which may encourage gallstone formation. This study is therefore to determine the relationship between the presence of gallstone disease and gall bladder volume.