5 results match your criteria: "Pietersburg Provincial Hospital[Affiliation]"
Atypical presentation of molluscum contagiosum infection in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient.
Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS
June 2024
Department of Radiation and Imaging, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Limpopo, Department of Radiation Oncology, Pietersburg Provincial Hospital, Polokwane, South Africa.
Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a skin infection caused by a virus of the poxvirus family. The infection is usually innocuous and inconsequential, occasionally resolving spontaneously. It is rarely associated with such severe physical and psychological morbidity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA bronchogenic cyst masquerading as asthma: A case report.
Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med
June 2018
Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergy, University of Limpopo and Pietersburg Provincial Hospital, Polokwane, South Africa.
Wheezing in infants and under-five children may present a diagnostic problem as there are various aetiologies for this symptom. Diagnosis of asthma is often made as it is one of the causes of wheezing in children. It is however important to have taken a complete history, including allergy and appropriate diagnostic investigations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBaseline Predictors of Mortality among Predominantly Rural-Dwelling End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Chronic Dialysis Therapies in Limpopo, South Africa.
PLoS One
July 2017
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Background: Dialysis therapy for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) continues to be the readily available renal replacement option in developing countries. While the impact of rural/remote dwelling on mortality among dialysis patients in developed countries is known, it remains to be defined in sub-Saharan Africa.
Methods: A single-center database of end-stage renal disease patients on chronic dialysis therapies treated between 2007 and 2014 at the Polokwane Kidney and Dialysis Centre (PKDC) of the Pietersburg Provincial Hospital, Limpopo South Africa, was retrospectively reviewed.
Calciphylaxis in end-stage renal disease prior to dialytic treatment: a case report and literature review.
Int J Nephrol Renovasc Dis
February 2015
Internal Medicine Department, Pietersburg Provincial Hospital, Polokwane Kidney and Dialysis Centre, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Introduction: Calciphylaxis is a rare medical condition that is usually diagnosed in patients suffering from end-stage renal disease who are already receiving renal replacement therapy and in those post-transplantation. The pathogenesis still remains to be fully elucidated; hence, the treatment is not uniform. The prognosis is generally poor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContinuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in Limpopo province, South Africa: predictors of patient and technique survival.
Perit Dial Int
May 2015
Polokwane Kidney and Dialysis Centre, Pietersburg Provincial Hospital, Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa; South African National Bioinformatics Institute/Medical Research Council of South Africa Bioinformatics Unit, University of the Western Cape; and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Introduction And Aim: Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is not a frequently used modality of dialysis in many parts of Africa due to several socio-economic factors. Available studies from Africa have shown a strong association between outcome and socio-demographic variables. We sought to assess the outcome of patients treated with CAPD in Limpopo, South Africa.