Inpatient and postdischarge mortality among children with anaemia and malaria parasitaemia in Kenya: a cohort study.

Background: Anaemia and malaria are leading causes of paediatric hospitalisation and inpatient mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is limited empirical data on survival following hospital discharge. We aimed to estimate independent effects of anaemia and malaria parasitaemia on inpatient and 1 year postdischarge mortality among Kenyan children.

A staged approach for complex scalp defects using titanium mesh and anterolateral thigh flaps: Two case reports.

Introduction And Importance: Scalp tumors are diverse, with the characteristics of individual tumors depending on the cell lineage. Invasive squamous cell carcinoma and sarcomas of the scalp are a variety of uncommon, aggressive neoplasms of the head and neck. Resecting large invasive tumors causes extensive full-thickness scalp defects, and repairing these defects remains challenging.

A long-term observational study of paediatric snakebite in Kilifi County, south-east Kenya.

Introduction: Estimates suggest that one-third of snakebite cases in sub-Saharan Africa affect children. Despite children being at a greater risk of disability and death, there are limited published data. This study has determined the: population-incidence and mortality rate of hospital-attended paediatric snakebite; clinical syndromes of snakebite envenoming; and predictors of severe local tissue damage.

Trends in inpatient and post-discharge mortality among young infants admitted to Kilifi County Hospital, Kenya: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: To describe admission trends and estimate inpatient and post-discharge mortality and its associated exposures, among young infants (YI) admitted to a county hospital in Kenya.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Secondary level hospital.