Predictors of late presentation for obstetric fistula repair in Abakaliki, South-East Nigeria.

Late presentation is a challenge to reducing the backlog of obstetric fistulas. We aimed to identify characteristics of women presenting late for repair in order to improve patient recruitment. It was a cross-sectional comparative study.

Correlates of patients' satisfaction with antenatal care services in a tertiary hospital in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

Introduction: antenatal care is a specialized pattern of care organized for pregnant women to improve their chances of a safe delivery. Assessment of patients' perception of healthcare services is one of the ways of measuring the quality of healthcare as satisfied patients are likely to come back for the services they need and to recommend the services to others.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study.

Age at menarche, menstrual characteristics, and its associated morbidities among secondary school students in Abakaliki, southeast Nigeria.

Background: Menstruation has a variable pattern. Knowledge of age at menarche and providing accurate information to adolescent girls is necessary to allay anxiety, treat menstrual morbidities, and improve their quality of life.

Objective: To determine the age at menarche and menstrual characteristics of adolescent secondary school girls in Abakaliki.

Knowledge and Practices of Health-Care Waste Management among Health Workers in Lassa Fever Treatment Facility in Southeast Nigeria.

Background: The threat of endemic, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases, especially the viral hemorrhagic fevers demands effective health-care waste management (HCWM) among health-care workers. The study was intended to assess the knowledge and practices of HCWM among the cleaning staff in a Lassa fever (LF) treatment facility.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study of 234 cleaning staff of Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki recruited by systematic random sampling.

Choice of birth place among antenatal clinic attendees in rural mission hospitals in Ebonyi State, South-East Nigeria.

Background: Low utilization of health facilities for delivery by pregnant women poses a public health challenge in Nigeria.

Aim: To determine the factors that influence the choice of birth place among antenatal clinic attendees.

Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study of the eligible antenatal clinic attendees recruited at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Afikpo and Saint Vincent Hospital, Ndubia in Ebonyi State from February 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016.

Clinical Presentation and Management Outcome of Emergency Adolescent Gynecological Disorders at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria.

Background: Gynecological emergencies which affect the adolescents may pose a serious challenge to both the patient and the gynecologist.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to determine the clinical presentations and management outcomes of emergency adolescent gynecological disorders at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective review of all cases of adolescent gynecological emergencies managed at Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014.

Outcome of open excisional breast biopsies in Abakaliki, South-East Nigeria.

Introduction: open excisional breast biopsy is a known modality for treatment of breast lumps especially in developing countries. Other sophisticated methods are available for management of breast lumps in more advanced nations. Our aim in this study was to review the outcome of open excision breast biopsies in our setting with a view to improving patient management.

Enterocutaneous Fistula Coexisting with Enterovesical Fistula: A Rare Complication of Ovarian Cystectomy.

Enterocutaneous fistula is an abnormal communication between the intestine and the skin, while enterovesical fistula is an abnormal communication between the intestine and the bladder. Both are not usual complications of ovarian cystectomy. We present a patient with enterovesical fistula coexisting with enterocutaneous fistula following ovarian cystectomy.

Transvaginal Retropubic Urethropexy Versus Pubovaginal Sling for Treatment of Postrepair Urinary Incontinence.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the success rates of transvaginal retropubic urethropexy with fascia lata pubovaginal sling (PV sling) for treatment of postrepair urinary incontinence at a fistula center in Nigeria.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of 60 patients who had transvaginal retropubic urethropexy and 46 patients who had PV sling on account of postrepair incontinence at National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki, Nigeria, between January 2014 and December 2016. Data were retrieved from the hospital records.

Intravenous urography findings in women with ureteric fistula.

Introduction: Ureteric fistula is one of the major morbidities that can arise from pelvic surgeries. It mainly results from gynaecological and obstetric procedures. Intravenous urography is an imaging modality for the upper urinary tract.

Profile and outcome of patients with recurrent urogenital fistula in a fistula centre in Nigeria.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Management of a recurrent urogenital fistula is very challenging and requires experienced surgeons. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics, success rates, and associated factors related to surgical repairs of patients with recurrent urogenital fistulas by an experienced team at a fistula centre in Nigeria.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of 154 patients that had repeat urogenital fistula repairs at the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki, Nigeria, between January 2014 and December 2016.

Bladder spasm following urogenital fistula repair.

Objective: To examine the occurrence of bladder spasms following surgical repair of urogenital fistula.

Methods: The present retrospective study included data from patients who underwent surgical repair of urogenital fistula at the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki, Nigeria, between June 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016. Patients who underwent rectovaginal fistula repair and those who experienced persistent postoperative pain requiring high doses of analgesia were excluded.

Obstetric benefits of health insurance: A comparative analysis of obstetric indices and outcome of enrollees and non-enrollees in southeast Nigeria.

This study determined the obstetric benefits and compared the obstetric indices and pregnancy outcome of enrollees and non-enrollees of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS). A prospective cohort study of enrollees and non-enrollees of NHIS was conducted over 2 years. Data was analysed with Epi-info statistical software.