3 results match your criteria: "East London Hospital Complex and Walter Sisulu University[Affiliation]"
An International Consensus Survey among Pediatric Surgeons on the Role of Appendectomy in Malrotation.
J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg
May 2024
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
Introduction: Ladd's procedure, originally described in 1936 for the treatment of malrotation, does not traditionally include appendectomy as a standard step. We conducted a multinational survey to investigate the current consensus on the role of appendectomy in Ladd's procedure.
Methodology: An anonymous online survey was distributed to pediatric surgeons worldwide.
Adverse Drug Reactions Causing Admission to Medical Wards: A Cross-Sectional Survey at 4 Hospitals in South Africa.
Medicine (Baltimore)
May 2016
From the Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (JPM, CN, NK, AS, UM, MB, MFDS, RDW, GM, KC); Department of Medicine, East London Hospital Complex and Walter Sisulu University, East London (AGP); Department of Medicine, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (DPKW), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria (EUI, GA); National Department of Health, Pretoria (MD); and Pharmaceutical Services, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (MD).
Limited data exist on the burden of serious adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in sub-Saharan Africa, which has high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence. We determined the proportion of adult admissions attributable to ADRs at 4 hospitals in South Africa. We characterized drugs implicated in, risk factors for, and the preventability of ADR-related admissions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaparoscopically inserted button colostomy as a venting stoma and access port for the administration of antegrade enemas in African degenerative leiomyopathy.
S Afr J Surg
March 2011
Departmet of Paediatrics Surgeryand Dietetics, East London Hospital Complex and Walter Sisulu University, East London, E Cape.
African degenerative leiomyopathy (ADL) is a rare incurable disorder seen in African children, predominantly in southern and south-eastern Africa. ADL presents as chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction. Management is traditionally conservative, with surgery restricted to the management of complications.
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