Publications by authors named "Mohamed Aden"
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- Chronic constrictive pericarditis is a serious condition that affects the heart's ability to stretch and function, often caused by tuberculosis, especially in developing countries.
- A case study of a 64-year-old man with breathing difficulties and signs of right heart failure revealed significant thickening of the pericardium through various imaging techniques.
- After surgical intervention to remove the thickened pericardium, tests confirmed the presence of tuberculosis, and the patient showed good recovery after 6 months.
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- Acute coronary syndromes lead to high morbidity and mortality rates, despite improvements in treatments, emphasizing the need for prompt reperfusion therapy.
- Early diagnosis can be challenging, particularly in patients with atypical symptoms, such as diabetics, which may delay necessary intervention.
- A case study illustrates a 54-year-old male with multiple cardiovascular risk factors whose initial complaint of epigastric pain led to a delayed diagnosis of biventricular infarction after eight hours.
Renal infarction is a rare pathology, threatening the functional prognosis of the kidney. Given the lack of clinical features specific to this pathology, the practitioner may wrongly diagnose pyelonephritis or other causes of abdominal pain. Renal infarction frequently occurs in patients with thromboembolic risk factors, most often secondary to atrial fibrillation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUntil 2020, Djiboutian health authorities relied on histidine-rich protein-2 (HRP2)-based rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) to establish the diagnosis of . The rapid spread of histidine-rich protein-2 and -3 () gene-deleted parasite strains in Djibouti has led the authorities to switch from HRP2-based RDTs to lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)-based RDTs targeting the plasmodial lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) specific for and (RapiGEN BIOCREDIT Malaria Ag Pf/Pv pLDH/pLDH) in 2021. This study was conducted with the primary objective of evaluating the diagnostic performance of this alternative RDT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) can help women receive the necessary obstetric care and referral if needed. However, there is a lack of evidence on whether women have the desire to stay away from their homes and the sociocultural predictors of their decision in Somaliland.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to measure predictors of the intention of women to stay in MWHs using the theory of planned behavior in Hargeisa city, Somaliland.
This paper presents an initiative to revive the previous Somali-Swedish Research Cooperation, which started in 1981 and was cut short by the civil war in Somalia. A programme focusing on research capacity building in the health sector is currently underway through the work of an alliance of three partner groups: six new Somali universities, five Swedish universities, and Somali diaspora professionals. Somali ownership is key to the sustainability of the programme, as is close collaboration with Somali health ministries.
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