Medication adherence and blood pressure control: A preliminary assessment of the role of health insurance in Nigeria and Ghana.

Objectives: This study sought to assess the current impact of health insurance coverage on medication adherence and blood pressure control of patients being managed for hypertension in Ghana and Nigeria.

Methods: The study was a prospective study among 109 patients with hypertension in two health facilities with similar population dynamics in Ghana and Nigeria. Patients were systematically selected, categorized as having health insurance coverage or not, and followed up monthly for 6 months.

Diagnostic accuracy of flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy: experience from a tertiary health institution in Nigeria.

Background: Flexible fibreoptic laryngoscopy (FFL) is a technique of laryngeal visualization. The instrument (flexible laryngoscope) is relatively scarce in resource challenged countries. Where available, it is a useful compliment to the armamentarium of clinical tools at the disposal of the otolaryngologist.

The Role of Preoperative Evaluations in Otorhinolaryngological Procedures.

Background: Routine laboratory investigations are important in preoperative preparation of otorhinolaryngological, head and neck patients to assess and to prevent operative risks. This study aimed at determining the American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) classification of the preoperative patients, causes of delayed surgery, associated comorbidity and abnormal laboratory investigation results in ear, nose, and throat surgical practice in a low-resource setting.

Materials And Methods: This is a prospective hospital-based study of patients being worked up for elective surgical procedures in Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, from January 2014 to December 2016.

Palatal avulsion injury by a foreign body in a child.

A 6-year-old girl who claimed to have fallen while playing with metal rod that resulted in palatal avulsion injuries was presented. Neither of the parents was around when the incidence happened. She was brought to the hospital because of pain, bleeding from the mouth, drooling of saliva mixed with blood and inability to feed or phonate appropriately.

Rhinometry: spectrum of nasal profile among Nigerian Africans.

Unlabelled: Nasal parameters measurements are useful in anthropology to distinguish people into racial and ethnic groups.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional survey among Nigerians aged 18 to 70 years of Nigerian parentage randomly selected at the ENT Clinic of the University of Ilorin teaching hospital (U.I.

Primary sinonasal tuberculosis in a Nigerian woman presenting with epistaxis and proptosis: a case report.

Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death worldwide after human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS and is especially prevalent in developing countries. We report a case of primary sinonasal tuberculosis without pulmonary involvement, which is rare, in a 27-year old female Nigerian fish farmer. She had a 3-year history of right-eye proptosis, bilateral nasal masses, and epistaxis.

Prevalence of acute otitis media among children with pyrexia in a Nigerian hospital.

Objective: This was to determine the prevalence of acute otitis media in children with pyrexia in an area with malaria endemicity and also the relevance of socio-economic factors on AOM.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted between January 2004 and June 2005 at the emergency paediatric unit of the hospital among children aged 0-15 years presenting with pyrexia. All the children had full ENT examinations in addition to the evaluation by the emergency paediatricians.

Otological findings among Nigerian children with sickle cell anaemia.

Background/aim: Various degrees of hearing loss have been associated with sickle cell anaemia, especially of the sensorineural type (SNHL). However, there is little information on hearing pattern among sickle cell children in Nigeria. This study is to determine the prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) among children with sickle cell anaemia (SCA).