Mathematical Modelling of Different Types of Body Support Surface for Pressure Ulcer Prevention [PDF]
, 2014 Pressure ulcer is a common problem for today’s healthcare industry. It occurs due to external load applied to the skin. Also when the subject is immobile for a longer period of time and there is continuous load applied to a particular area of human body,
Cole, Jonathan +3 more
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A Review on Pressure Ulcer: Aetiology, Cost, Detection and Prevention Systems [PDF]
, 2014 Pressure ulcer (also known as pressure sore, bedsore, ischemia, decubitus ulcer) is a global challenge for today’s healthcare society. Found in several locations in the human body such as the sacrum, heel, back of the head, shoulder, knee caps, it occurs
Cole, Jonathan +3 more
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Peptic Ulcer: Rise and fall [PDF]
, 2002 Consists of the edited transcripts of Witness Seminars organized by the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group and held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,London, on 12 May 2000.
Christie, DA, Tansey, EM
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Inter-rater reliability of the EPUAP pressure ulcer classification system using photographs [PDF]
, 2004 Background. Many classification systems for grading pressure ulcers are discussed in the literature. Correct identification and classification of a pressure ulcer is important for accurate reporting of the magnitude of the problem, and for timely ...
Tom Defloor +6 more
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Infection with Mansonella perstans Nematodes in Buruli Ulcer Patients, Ghana. [PDF]
, 2014 During August 2010-December 2012, we conducted a study of patients in Ghana who had Buruli ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, and found that 23% were co-infected with Mansonella perstans nematodes; 13% of controls also had M. perstans infection. M.
Abass, KM +47 more
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Combined Inflammatory and Metabolic Defects Reflected by Reduced Serum Protein Levels in Patients with Buruli Ulcer Disease [PDF]
, 2014 Buruli ulcer is a skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans that is spreading in tropical countries, with major public health and economic implications in West Africa.
Reid Oldenburg (550232) +63 more
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Illness meanings and experiences for pre-ulcer and ulcer conditions of Buruli ulcer in the Ga-West and Ga-South municipalities of Ghana [PDF]
, 2012 : BACKGROUND: Ghana is a Buruli ulcer (BU) endemic country yet there is paucity of socio-cultural research on BU. Examining distinctive experiences and meanings for pre-ulcers and ulcers of BU may clarify the disease burden, illness experience and local ...
Kwakye-Maclean Cynthia +14 more
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Di-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2020 Objective To establish a rat model of stress-induced gastric ulcer by exposure to hanging at a great height and assess the intervention effects of different pretreatments in this model.
GAO Rong +3 more
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Mycolactone Diffuses into the Peripheral Blood of Buruli Ulcer Patients - Implications for Diagnosis and Disease Monitoring. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer (BU), is unique among human pathogens in its capacity to produce a polyketide-derived macrolide called mycolactone, making this molecule an attractive candidate target for diagnosis ...
Le Chevalier, Fabien +53 more
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EFFECT OF THE AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA ON STRESS-ETHANOL INDUCED ACUTE GASTRIC ULCERATION IN RABBITS [PDF]
The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 2006 The anti-ulcer effect of the aqueous extract of Matricaria chamomilla flowers (chamomile extract, CE) had been tested on stress- ethanol induced gastric ulceration in rabbits.
Nadheera F. NaemaJ +2 more
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