Publications by authors named "Christian A Agbo"
Article Synopsis
- - Prostate cancer mortality is high in Nigeria due to poor quality care and the need for early detection and effective management, prompting a study to identify barriers and facilitators affecting detection and treatment.
- - Six focus group discussions with patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers highlighted barriers such as limited knowledge, misperceptions, and issues with centralized screening, while facilitators included the role of religious institutions in promoting health-seeking behavior.
- - In terms of management, barriers included inconsistent clinical guidelines, financial constraints, and lack of patient support systems, whereas facilitators consisted of structured guidelines and support from peers and healthcare professionals to provide accurate information.
Introduction: Non-technical skills (NTS) including communication, teamwork, leadership, situational awareness, and decision making, are essential for enhancing surgical safety. Often perceived as tangential soft skills, NTS are many times not included in formal medical education curricula or continuing medical professional development. We aimed to explore exposure of interprofessional teams in North-Central Nigeria to NTS and ascertain perceived facilitators and barriers to interprofessional training in these skills to enhance surgical safety and inform design of a relevant contextualized curriculum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrelation Between Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen and Testosterone Following Bilateral Total Orchidectomy for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer in Jos, Nigeria.
J West Afr Coll Surg
March 2023
Background: Prostate cancer is a common malignancy affecting men beyond the middle age. Monitoring of treatment of the disease using serum testosterone and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) offers an index of treatment efficacy and a reflection of disease progression, respectively. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between changing values of serum PSA and serum testosterone in patients with advanced prostate cancer following bilateral total orchidectomy (BTO).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine the presentation, management, and outcome of cryptorchidism in Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia, Nigeria.
Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective study conducted at Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia, Nigeria. Information of patients who presented with cryptorchidism to the hospital from January 2015 to January 2020 was retrieved from the folders and analysed.
Background: Urinary stones affect 8%-15% of the world population. In Nigeria, contemporary reports have shown that the incidence of urinary stones is rising. The distal ureter has been described as the most common location of ureteric stones.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTesticular tuberculosis (TB) is a rare presentation of extrapulmonary TB. A 46-year-old man presented to our Urology clinic with a painless swelling of the right testis. Examination revealed a hard, non-tender swelling on the inferior pole of the testis that measured 3 x 2 cm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is accepted as the first-line treatment of advanced prostate cancer. This study sets out to determine the outcomes of ADT in reducing lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in patients with advanced prostate cancer and also to determine the quality of life (QoL) of the patients.
Patients And Methods: This was a prospective study carried out at Jos University Teaching Hospital.