cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Feto-Maternal Outcomes in Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State-A Comparative Study of Two Diagnostic Criteria
Creators: name: Dambo, Numonyo D
name: Jeremiah, Israel
name: Omietimi, James E.
name: Oyeyemi, Nuvie
name: Kasia, Benedicta E.
name: Finomo, Finomo O.
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Background: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is dependent on the diagnostic criteria used and there is no consensus on screening methods and diagnostic criteria. The International Association for Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group (IADPSG) recently put forward new diagnostic criteria and encourages its adoption worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of GDM and to compare the foeto-maternal outcomes of women diagnosed with GDM in the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa using the WHO 1999 and IADPSG criteria.

 

Methodology: This was a cohort study of 340 women who were booked for antenatal care at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa. Women who gave consent to participate in this study took part in a 75-gram, 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). The diagnosis of GDM was sought in each participant using both the WHO 1999 and the IADPSG criteria. The incidence and the foeto-maternal outcomes in women diagnosed with GDM using different criteria were compared.

 

Results: The incidence of GDM was 5.3% in the IADPSG (case) group and 3.8% in the WHO (control) group. This difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.18). There was no significant difference between the groups for foetal and maternal outcomes that were assessed. Maternal outcomes were pre-eclampsia (p = 0.48), polyhydramnios (p = 0.31), insulin therapy (p = 0.35), caesarean section (p = 0.28), genital tract laceration (p = 0.18) and instrumental vaginal delivery (p = 0.34). Foetal outcomes were birth weight ≥ 4kg (p = 0.07), neonatal jaundice (p = 0.38), hypoglycaemia (p = 0.46), birth injuries (p = 0.42) and shoulder dystocia (p = 0.23).

 

Conclusion: The application of the IADPSG criteria in our environment may lead to an increase in the number of women being managed for GDM without any appreciable improvement in foetal and maternal outcomes.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Ctenomys validus Contreras, Roig, and Suzarte 1977
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys validus

description: Ctenomys validus Contreras, Roig, and Suzarte 1977
Ctenomys validus Contreras, Roig, and Suzarte 1977, Physis. Sec. C., 36 (92): 160.
Type Locality: Argentina, Mendoza Prov., Guaymallén Dept., Médanos del Borbollón, El Algarrobal (near city of Mendoza).
Vernacular Names: Guanacache Tuco-tuco.
Distribution: Mendoza Prov. (Argentina).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Closely related to johannis according to Contreras et al. (1977).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Ctenomyidae, pp. 1560-1570 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Investigation of coupling structures for coplanar bandpass filters
Creators: name: Menzel, Wolfgang
name: Schwab, Wolfgang
name: Strauss, Georg
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Couplings
subject: Electric filters, bandpass
subject: Mikrowellenbandpass

description: N/A
Ctenomys tulduco Thomas 1921
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys tulduco

description: Ctenomys tulduco Thomas 1921
Ctenomys tulduco Thomas 1921, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 8: 218.
Type Locality: Argentina, San Juan Prov., Los Sombreros, 2700 m.
Vernacular Names: Sierra Tontal Tuco-tuco.
Distribution: Sierra Tontal, San Juan Prov., Argentina.
Discussion: Included in fulvus by Cabrera (1961), but considered provisionally distinct by Contreras et al. (1977) and listed as a distinct species by Galliari et al. (1996).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Ctenomyidae, pp. 1560-1570 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Syntomodrillia hypsela Watson 1881
Creators: name: Fallon, Phillip J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Drilliidae
Syntomodrillia
Syntomodrillia hypsela

description: Syntomodrillia hypsela (Watson, 1881)
(Plate 171)
Pleurotoma (Mangelia) hypsela Watson, 1881: 433: Watson (1886, 341–342, pl. 21, figs. 4a–b).
Not this species, or unconfirmed extralimital reports.
Syntomodrillia hypsela (Watson, 1881): Rios (2009: 314, sp. 800 [Watson’s fig. 4a]).
Type material. The holotype (by monotypy) 4.8 x 1.7 mm, 10 Sep 1873 (MNHUK 1887.2.9.1058).
Type locality. H.M.S. Challenger! Sta. 122, off Pernambuco state, Brazil, 9.08°S, 34.83°W, in 350 fms [640 m].
Range and habitat. Known only from the holotype.
Description. Watson’s original description was brief because of the poor condition of the shell:
“Shell. —High, narrow, and conical, with very short whorls, of which there are 6; the last whorl exceptionally small, with a short conical base and very small snout; the suture very slight, but extremely oblique; the apex blunt and rounded; there are narrow, high, rounded, curved, and very oblique ribs, which run continuously from the apex to the point of the base, but not to the snout; there are obsolete spiral striae, which become stronger on the point of the pillar. H. 0.19 in. B. 0.067 [4.8 x 1.7 mm]. Penultimate whorl, height 0.033. Mouth, height 0.078, breadth 0.033.
“The specimen of this very marked species is in too bad condition for more minute description. It is very like Pleurotoma (Drillia) exilis, Pease, [= Iredalea exilis (Pease, 1868) from Tahiti] but is much more attenuated, and the last whorl is much shorter.”
Remarks. Taxonomy. Placement in Syntomodrillia is based on the presence of ribs suture-to-suture, a short anterior canal, and faint spirals that are barely discernable in the photograph of the type, the spirals described as “obsolete” by Watson. Dall synonymized this taxon with Splendrillia lissotropis (Dall, 1881) but despite the poor condition of S. hypsela it is considered very unlikely to be a synonym. Watson’s shell is too eroded to give a full description and to make a detailed comparison with S. lissotropis. Identification. Specimens from the general area of the type locality are not available for comparison as possibly the same and a better representative of the species. As such, this species remains enigmatic, the taxon only partially described at this time.
description: Published as part of Fallon, Phillip J., 2016, Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species, pp. 1-363 in Zootaxa 4090 (1) on page 331, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4090.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/263299
MOESM8 of Yeast lysates carrying the nucleoprotein from measles virus vaccine as a novel subunit vaccine platform to deliver Plasmodium circumsporozoite antigen
Creators: name: Jacob, Daria
name: Ruffie, Claude
name: Combredet, Chantal
name: Formaglio, Pauline
name: Amino, Rogerio
name: Ménard, Robert
name: Tangy, Frédéric
name: Sala, Monica
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S8. Survival curves of immunized mice in Experiment III after challenge with GFP + Pb sporozoites. Mice were immunized 3 times bi-weekly with (A)-50 YU N-PbCS or N yeast lysates; (B)-100 YU N-PbCS or N yeast lysates; (C)-150 YU N-PbCS, N or WT yeast lysates: in comparison to mice immunized with the adjuvant alone (Alum group) and naive mice.
Ctenomys viperinus Thomas 1926
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys viperinus

description: Ctenomys viperinus Thomas 1926
Ctenomys viperinus Thomas 1926, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 17: 605.
Type Locality: Argentina, Tucuman Prov., Vipos, tableland above Ñorco.
Vernacular Names: Vipos Tuco-tuco.
Distribution: N Tucuman Prov. (Argentina).
Discussion: Cabrera (1961) considered viperinus synonymous with knighti but Galliari et al. (1996) listed it as a distinct species.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Ctenomyidae, pp. 1560-1570 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Ctenomys yolandae Contreras and Berry 1984
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys yolandae

description: Ctenomys yolandae Contreras and Berry 1984
Ctenomys yolandae Contreras and Berry 1984, Resumenes VII Jornadas Argentinas Zoologia, Mar del Plata: 75.
Type Locality: Argentina, Santa Fe Prov., Las Palmas (29o25’S, 59o40’W).
Vernacular Names: Yolanda's Tuco-tuco.
Distribution: Along the Paraná and San Javier Rivers, Santa Fe Prov.
Discussion: Not recognized by Redford and Eisenberg (1992) but listed by Galliari et al. (1996). Karyotype has 2n=50 and FN=78 and shares several chromosomal characteristics with rionegrensis (Ortells et al. 1990). Distinct in both penial (Balbontin et al., 1996) and sperm morphology (Vitullo et al., 1988).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Ctenomyidae, pp. 1560-1570 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
A 77 GHz FM/CW radar frontend with a low-profile, low-loss printed antenna
Creators: name: Menzel, Wolfgang
name: Pilz, Dietmar
name: Leberer, Ralf
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Printed circuits
subject: Radar antennas
subject: Gedruckte Schaltung
subject: Radarantenne

description: N/A
A global finite difference time domain analysis of a silicon nonlinear transmission line
Creators: name: Thiel, Werner
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
name: Abele, Peter
name: Birk, Martin
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Finite differences
subject: Nachrichtenübertragungstechnik

description: N/A
Sociodemographic and Economic Correlates of Dialysis Vintage in a Resource Challenged Setting: A Four-Year Prospective Study in Southwest Nigeria
Creators: name: Uduagbamen, Peter
name: Bamikefa, Titilope Adetoun
name: Shitu, Abdul-Karim. O
name: Omokore, Olutomiwa A
name: Nwachukwu, Nwachukwu O
name: Alo, Demilade J
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Background: Dialysis vintage is largely dependent on the effectiveness of the delivered dose coupled with the extent of patient compliance with the prescribed treatment regimen. This study assessed the determinants and correlates of dialysis vintage.

 

Methodology: This was a 4-year prospective, observational study. The data was collected from the dialysis and medical records, both had the contacts of patients and relatives.

 

Results: A total of 314 participants (males 67.20%) with a mean age of 47.91±8.81 years underwent 2265 maintenance haemodialysis sessions. The females were older and had more hospital admissions; (P=0.07). Approximately 32.17% of the participants traveled at least fifty kilometers to access dialysis treatment. In a month, only 23.57% of the participants received the minimum prescribed twelve sessions, and 24.84% received the required erythropoietin dose. The mean dialysis vintage for all population was 9.13 ± 3.15 months, it was shorter for participants with hospitalization, (p<0.001), dialysis termination (p<0.001), intradialytic hypotension (p<0.001), and hypertension (p<0.001), Approximately, 14.2% of the participants had health insurance coverage, more so with the men After dialysis initiation, 6.69% of the participants were alive to the fourth year. The predictors of dialysis vintage were income (OR-4.62, 95% CI-2.88-6.24), health insurance (OR-8.11, 95% CI-4.82-13.35), dialysis duration (OR-6.38, 95% CI-2.40-9.55) and spKt/V (OR-4.24, 95% CI-0.48-5.91).

 

Conclusion: Dialysis vintage was short (9.13 ± 3.15 months), more so in females, poor funding, peridialysis complications, and without health insurance. More concerted efforts from governments, multinational donor agencies, and philanthropists are needed in health insurance coverage, particularly for kidney care to increase the dialysis vintage.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Sidneioides japonense Redikorzev 1913
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Polyclinidae
Sidneioides
Sidneioides japonense

description: Sidneioides japonense Redikorzev, 1913
(Figs 47; 77A)
Sidneioides japonense Redikorzev, 1913: 212, fig. 38 (Japon). — Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2006: 125, fig. 8 (Madagascar et Indonésie), et synonymie.
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Indonésie. Berau, E Kalimantan, Maratua Island, Danau Haji Buang marine lake, 2°12.63’N, 118°35.68’E, 24.X.2003, 0,5 m, coll. L. J. Bell, HBM026, 4 colonies (MNHN A1 SID A 3).
DESCRIPTION
Les colonies (Fig. 77A) sont très molles, en coussins épais et de quelques centimètres de diamètre. Les orifices buccaux s’ouvrent en doubles rangs disposés en étoile pour déboucher dans de larges ouvertures cloacales communes. La disposition rappelle celle rencontrée dans le genre Polyclinum. La surface des colonies est lisse, avec seulement par places quelques traînées de grains de sable. Il n’y a pas du tout de sédiment interne.
Les zoïdes et les larves (Fig. 47) ont exactement la même structure que ceux examinés et décrits (Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2006) provenant du Japon (prêt du Nagoya University Museum) et de Madagascar.
REMARQUES
Le genre Sidneioides ne comprend que peu d’espèces (Monniot F.& Monniot C. 2006).Il diffère du genre Polyclinum par la présence de l’ovaire dans le thorax alors que le testicule reste dans le post-abdomen. Il s’en rapproche par l’architecture des colonies et la présence dans les larves de cristaux d’oxalate de calcium (Fig. 47).
Sidneioides japonense a été récolté en plusieurs stations au Japon, mais n’a été signalé ailleurs qu’une fois par Millar (1975) en Indonésie et par Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2006) à Madagascar et en Indonésie dans le lac marin où il est à nouveau signalé ici. La stabilité des caractères anatomiques dans des stations aussi éloignées est remarquable.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2008, Compléments sur la diversité des ascidies (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) de l'ouest Pacifique tropical, pp. 799-872 in Zoosystema 30 (4) on page 834, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4690007
In-circuit testing of complex circuits using on-wafer probing and electromagnetic coupled ground interconnects
Creators: name: Kassner, Jürgen
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Interconnects: Integrated circuit technology
subject: Mikrowellenschaltung

description: N/A
A study to compare and correlate the effect of a yogic lifestyle on Framingham, Q RISK 3, and WHO risk scores among high-risk cardiovascular subjects
Creators: name: Saboo, Neha
name: Rao, Aayushee
name: Kacker, Sudhanshu
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels. Yoga is a low-cost, easily accessible lifestyle modification program that holds as an approach to decreasing cardiometabolic risk factors and increasing exercise self-efficacy among high-risk subjects. This study aimed to assess the impact of the yogic lifestyle (including diet) on cardiovascular risk scores by using the Framingham (FRS), QRISK3 score, and World Health Organization (WHO) CVD risk prediction charts at baseline, three months, and six months. The present study compares and correlates FRS, QRISK3, and WHO cardiovascular risk scores.

 

Methodology: The experimental interventional study was conducted among the high-risk population at RUHS College of Medical Sciences and Associated Group of Hospitals, Jaipur. Framingham risk Score, QRISK3 score, and WHO CVD risk prediction charts were used as a method of measurement for the outcome of interest at baseline, three months, and six months in the study and control group. Randomization and allocation in yoga and control groups were performed using computer-generated random numbers. The statistical analysis was done using advanced SPSS-22 software at significant level tests as p≤0.05, ensuring the highest level of accuracy. Data were analyzed using a one-way variance ANOVA test analysis at baseline, three, and six months. Pearson correlation analysis was done to compare different risk scores.

 

Results: Participants had a mean age of 48.43 ± 6.4 years. Baseline values (mean±SD) of FRS, Qrisk3, WHO were

24.59±10.15,28.59±10.11,15.71±6.07. After six months of yogic lifestyle, these values decreased significantly to 15.1±7.05, 20.09±7.08, and 13.85±4.96. The decrease in cardiovascular scores was statistically significant (p<0.0001), providing strong evidence for the effectiveness of the yogic lifestyle. Pearson correlation analysis results depict that FRS and Q risk 3 (r=0.840, p<0.0001), FRS and WHO risk chart (r=0.768, p<0.0001), Q risk3 and WHO risk chart (r=0.778, p<0.0001) have a statistically significant strong positive correlation.

 

Conclusion: This study's findings suggest that a 24-week yogic lifestyle intervention (including diet) significantly decreased FRS, Q RISK 3, and WHO CVD risk scores among high-risk subjects compared to the control group.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Coplanar and microstrip oscillators in SiGe SIMMWIC technology
Creators: name: Strohm, Karl M.
name: Rheinfelder, Clemens M.
name: Luy, Johann-Friedrich
name: Nüchter, Peter
name: Hess, Thomas
name: Heinrich, Wolfgang
name: Kuhnert, Holger
name: Nadarassin, Madi
name: Warns, Christoph
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Oscillators, microwave
subject: Mikrowellenoszillator

description: N/A
Fallopian Tube Papilloma: A Systematic Review of Case Reports
Creators: name: Kaundal, Asmita
name: Kaur, Gurwinder
name: Renjhen, Prachi
name: Prasad, Sonal
name: Sharma, Shikha
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Fallopian tube papilloma (FTP) is one of the benign lesions of the oviduct and is a rare proliferative epithelial lesion. Low incidence and underreporting of the disease limit our knowledge of these lesions. These lesions cause a diagnostic dilemma and need to be differentiated from several other conditions of the fallopian tubes both benign and malignant. Fallopian tube papilloma may lead to tubal obstruction and can be a cause of subfertility, ectopic gestation, or mass lesions in the fallopian tubes and hence should be considered as an important differential while managing these women. A high index of suspicion is required, and the final diagnosis can only be made after histopathological results. The reporting of such lesions is important to know the true prevalence of these tumours and to increase our knowledge about these benign neoplasms. This systematic review of case reports was done to enhance knowledge regarding the aetiology, natural course, complication, and recurrence of FTP. An electronic search of Scopus, Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and other databases was conducted for case reports and case series published in English from inception till January 2024.

 
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Factors Associated with Microalbuminuria among Children with Sickle Cell Disease in a Tertiary Centre in South-South Nigeria
Creators: name: Briggs, Datonye
name: Okechukwu, Chioma
name: Appollus, Josiah
name: Amadi, Ijeoma
name: Omunakwe, Hannah
name: Dublin-Green, Linda
name: Okoh, Dorathy
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Background: Microalbuminuria, an early indicator of kidney damage in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patients, is linked to a heightened risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adulthood. This study investigates the determinants of microalbuminuria in paediatric SCD patients in South-South Nigeria.

 

Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted over six months at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, involving 60 children with [HbSS genotype, SCD] in a steady state. Data collection included demographics, past medical history, clinical measurements, and laboratory assessments of urine and blood samples. ‘Steady state’ was defined as SCD with a known 'steady state' haemoglobin level and stable clinical state for ≥ 3 months. Microalbuminuria was defined spot urine albumin-creatinine ratio of 30mg/g to <300 mg/g.

 

Results: Of the 60 children recruited, 31 children (51.7%) were males. The mean age was 9.6 ± 4.3 years. The prevalence of microalbuminuria was 16.7% (CI: 8.29 – 28.5%) and associated risk factors were hypertension (p = 0.017), use of Hydroxyurea (p = 0.008), and Ciklavit (p = 0.025), but not NSAIDs (p = 0.046). There was a significant negative correlation (ɼ = -0.28; p = 0.032) between haemoglobin level and microalbuminuria.

 

Conclusion: This study provides insights into the factors associated with microalbuminuria in children with SCD in our setting and highlights the need for early screening for markers of CKD among children with SCD. Further research is needed to ascertain the potential benefits of addressing anaemia and reducing haemolysis in mitigating the occurrence of microalbuminuria among children with SCD.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Diplexer design using pre-synthesized waveguide filters with strongly dispersive inverters
Creators: name: Amari, Smain
name: Bornemann, Jens
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
name: Alessandri, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Electric filters, wave-guide
subject: Electric inverters
subject: Inverter

description: N/A
Challenges in Diagnosing Advanced Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy in Low-Resource Settings: A Case from North Western Nigeria.
Creators: name: Muhammad, Abbas Rabiu
name: Abu-Yazeed, Shehu
name: Dafi, Safwan Mukhtar
name: Shuaibu, Auwal
name: Idris, Anas Alhaji
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Abdominal ectopic pregnancy is a rare type of ectopic pregnancy associated with high maternal and perinatal mortality.

 

We present a case of a 28-year-old now primipara who was misdiagnosed to have abruptio placentae and ruptured uterus on two different occasions from a primary health care center but was found to have an advanced abdominal ectopic gestation at 21 weeks gestational age. The patient was managed by exploratory laparotomy and is currently doing well.

 

Abdominal ectopic pregnancy, though rare, does occur in our setting, and a high index of suspicion is necessary to make a diagnosis. Prompt diagnosis will help in managing the patient hence reducing morbidity and mortality
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Pseudodistoma coronatum Monniot F. & Monniot C. 1996
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Pseudodistomidae
Pseudodistoma
Pseudodistoma coronatum

description: Pseudodistoma coronatum Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996
(Figs 48; 77B)
Pseudodistoma coronatum Monniot F.& Monniot C., 1996: 145, fig. 6A-E, pl. 1H (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée).
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. NW New Ireland, 2°45.06’S, 150°42.84’E, 20 m, 29.X.1993, coll. P. L. Colin, 0CDN1845-P (MNHN A1 PSE 40). — SE Normanby Island, 10°06.43’S, 150°57.84’E, 7 m, 20.I.2002, coll. CRRF, 0CDN8495-S (MNHN A1 PSE 62). — Milne Bay Province, Egum Atoll lagoon, 9°24.95’S, 151°50.34’E, 6 m, 12.I.2002, coll. P. L. Colin, CRCHO521 (MNHN A1 PSE 63). — Sud de New Hanover, south side Enang Island, 2°40.68’S, 150°28.23’E, 43 m, 3.VII.2003, coll. CRRF, 0CDN9100-Z (MNHN A1 PSE 69).
DESCRIPTION
Les colonies (Fig. 77B) sont constituées de coussins parfois fixés par une base étroite, ou bien elles se développent en lobes pendants, certains de 40 cm de long pour un diamètre de 0,5 à 1,5 cm. La tunique est opaque, blanc verdâtre, de consistance gélatineuse. Les ouvertures buccales sont réunies en groupes irréguliers. Les zoïdes (Fig. 48A, B) sont allongés selon l’axe de la colonie et atteignent parfois 2 cm, les post-abdomens sont entrecroisés. Les 2 siphons, en position apicale, ont 6 lobes arrondis (Fig. 48D). Le premier des 3 rangs de stigmates est relevé dorsalement et compte environ 20 perforations de chaque côté. L’abdomen (Fig. 48D) est aussi long que le thorax. L’estomac est court avec 4 plis saillants; il est placé aux ⅔ de l’abdomen. Le postestomac est mince, nettement délimité de l’intestin moyen qui est d’abord large puis aminci au fond de la boucle. L’intestin postérieur débute par 2 caeca. Le thorax et l’abdomen sont exactement semblables dans les zoïdes des colonies basses ou digitées. Dans les colonies allongées, les post-abdomens très longs contiennent 1 ovaire à mi-longueur suivi de lobes testiculaires, en 1 ou 2 rangs irréguliers, jusqu’au coeur (Fig. 48C).
Une larve est incubée contre l’oesophage, sans dilatation en poche (Fig. 48D). Le tronc mesure 500 µm, la queue décrit un demi-tour. Il y a 3 papilles adhésives courtes et 4 paires de vésicules épidermiques peu saillantes.
La forme allongée pendante des colonies vivant le plus profondément est la seule différence trouvée entre les échantillons des différentes récoltes.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2008, Compléments sur la diversité des ascidies (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) de l'ouest Pacifique tropical, pp. 799-872 in Zoosystema 30 (4) on pages 835-836, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4690007
Architecture and interconnect technologies for a novel conformal active phased array radar module
Creators: name: Schreiner, Marc
name: Leier, Helmut
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
name: Feldle, Heinz-Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Interconnects: Integrated circuit technology
subject: Array
subject: Radar

description: N/A
Evaluation of CVD diamond for heavy duty microwave switches
Creators: name: Kohn, Erhard
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
name: Hernandez-Guillen, F. J.
name: Müller, Rainer
name: Munding, Andreas
name: Schmid, P.
name: Grobe, D.
name: Kusterer, Joachim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Microwaves
subject: CVD-Verfahren
subject: Mikrowellenschaltung

description: N/A
Pseudodistoma nigrum Monniot & Monniot 2008, n. sp.
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Pseudodistomidae
Pseudodistoma
Pseudodistoma nigrum

description: Pseudodistoma nigrum n. sp.
(Fig. 49)
SYNTYPES. — Nouvelle-Calédonie. 18°07.013’S, 162°52.926’E, 16.VIII.2003 (UA 406 st 736), coll. Laboute, 2 colonies (MNHN A1 PSE 74).
ÉTYMOLOGIE. — Du latin niger: noir.
DESCRIPTION
Les colonies forment des masses arrondies mamelonnées portées par un pédoncule court incrusté de sable. La plus grande colonie mesure 3,5 cm de haut. La partie supérieure est constituée de lobes soudés dont la surface est lisse sans incrustation. La couleur in vivo est crème et devient noire après fixation, mais la tunique du pédoncule n’est pas pigmentée.
Les zoïdes (Fig. 49A) fixés sont incolores et mesurent jusqu’à 15 mm de long. Des prolongements vasculaires font suite au long post-abdomen.
Les deux siphons sont courts à 6 lobes arrondis (Fig. 49A). De chaque côté on compte 10 à 12 faisceaux musculaires longitudinaux sur le thorax qui se prolongent en restant très forts sur l’abdomen qui est généralement très contracté. La branchie a 3 rangs d’une vingtaine de stigmates de chaque côté. L’oesophage est long (Fig. 49D) et l’estomac, avec 4 côtes bien marquées se situe aux ⅔ de la longueur de l’abdomen. Le post-estomac est étroit suivi d’un court segment peu renflé qui forme le fond de la boucle intestinale. Le rectum débute par un renflement net.
Le post-abdomen est long et mince (Fig. 49A, C). L’ovaire est très éloigné de l’abdomen et suivi d’une rangée irrégulière de vésicules testiculaires. Le coeur est terminal. L’extrémité du post-abdomen porte quelques protubérances arrondies entre lesquelles part un long appendice vasculaire (Fig. 49C).
Une larve (Fig. 49E) est incubée dans une poche incubatrice qui se développe très tôt, à la jonction thorax abdomen. Le tronc mesure 1 mm. Les 3 vésicules adhésives sont divergentes, larges, sur des pédoncules étroits. Elles sont entourées de chaque côté du corps par 6 prolongements digitiformes disposés de la façon suivante: 1 dorsal, 1 ventral et 2 de chaque côté entre les vésicules adhésives. Deux petites ampoules sont accolées à la partie ventrale de la masse viscérale. L’une des larves montre de très nombreux stigmates.
REMARQUES
Par ses colonies nues sur un court pédondule ensablé, Pseudodistoma nigrum n. sp. se rapproche de P. pilatum Kott, 1992 du sud de l’Australie. Il en diffère par la couleur noire de la tunique due à des cellules pigmentaires très denses et moins de zoïdes par lobe. Les larves de P. pilatum sont inconnues, mais il n’est pas fait mention dans la description de cette espèce de la dilatation de la paroi thoracique qui apparaît très tôt et qui formera la poche incubatrice de P. nigrum n. sp.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2008, Compléments sur la diversité des ascidies (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) de l'ouest Pacifique tropical, pp. 799-872 in Zoosystema 30 (4) on page 836, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4690007
Aclitus obscuripennis Forster 1862
Creators: name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Barahoei, Hossein
name: Ahmad, Zubair
name: Starý, Petr
name: Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa
name: Mehrparvar, Mohsen
name: Kavallieratos, Nickolas G.
name: Čkrkić, Jelisaveta
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aclitus
Aclitus obscuripennis

description: Aclitus obscuripennis Förster, 1862
Figs 1, 73, 176, 272, 374, 510
Host records
Lacking host data (Farahani et al. 2017).
Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa
Iran (Farahani et al. 2017).
General distribution
Eastern (Iran) and Western Palaearctic (Europe).
description: Published as part of Rakhshani, Ehsan, Barahoei, Hossein, Ahmad, Zubair, Starý, Petr, Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa, Mehrparvar, Mohsen, Kavallieratos, Nickolas G., Čkrkić, Jelisaveta & Tomanović, Željko, 2019, Review of Aphidiinae parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of the Middle East and North Africa: key to species and host associations, pp. 1-132 in European Journal of Taxonomy 552 on page 4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.552, http://zenodo.org/record/3476562
Blood usage among orthopedic patients at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Creators: name: Aaron, Friday E.
name: Ijah, Rex Friday Ogoronte Alderton
name: Omunakwe, Hannah E.
name: Achor, Mike T.
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Background: Blood transfusion holds a significant place in the practice of surgery, including orthopaedic surgeries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the intraoperative use of blood and blood products among orthopaedic patients operated at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital from January 2021 to December 2021, focusing on the demographics of patients, number and type of surgeries needing a blood transfusion, and the number of blood transfusions.

 

Methodology: A retrospective observational study was carried out at the operating theatre of a referral tertiary hospital using a designed proforma to extract data from the registers of operated orthopaedic patients.

 

Results: There were 168 males and 145 females who were operated on, and 43 (13.74%) of them had intra-operative blood transfusion. Patients between 41 to 50years and 51 to 60 years dominated the distribution with a total of 20 (46.5%), out of 59 blood transfusions carried out. The surgical condition requiring the highest number of blood transfusions was fractures (29), followed by foot gangrene (17) occasioned by diabetes mellitus and peripheral vascular disease. Open reduction and internal fixation for fractures (18) constituted the highest single type of surgery carried out within the study period.

 

Conclusion: A bimodal age distribution was observed in intraoperative blood transfusion requirements. The orthopaedic intraoperative blood transfusion burden was 13.74%, mainly for open reduction and internal fixation for fractures.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Proposal of a new landing area for SAW RF filters in wireless applications ensuring precisely predictable filter characteristics
Creators: name: Bilzer, Horst
name: Pitschi, Maximilian
name: Kiwitt, Jürgen
name: Wagner, Karl C.
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Acoustic surface wave devices
subject: Radio frequency
subject: Wireless communication systems
subject: Hochfrequenzfilter
subject: Oberflächenwellenelement

description: N/A
Adialytus salicaphis
Creators: name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Barahoei, Hossein
name: Ahmad, Zubair
name: Starý, Petr
name: Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa
name: Mehrparvar, Mohsen
name: Kavallieratos, Nickolas G.
name: Čkrkić, Jelisaveta
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Adialytus
Adialytus salicaphis

description: Adialytus salicaphis (Fitch, 1855)
Figs 3, 75, 178, 274, 376, 501, 512
Host records
Chaitophorus euphraticus Hodjat (Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012a; Talebi et al. 2009); Chaitophorus leucomelas Koch (Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012a; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Chaitophorus populeti (Panzer) (Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012a); Chaitophorus populialbae (Boyer de Fonscolombe) (Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012a; Barahoei et al. 2013); Chaitophorus remaudierei Pintera (Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012a; Talebi et al. 2009; Nazari et al. 2012); Chaitophorus salijaponicus Essig & Kuwana (Starý et al. 2000; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Chaitophorus truncatus (Hausmann) (Rakhshani et al. 2007b; Talebi et al. 2009); Chaitophorus vitellinae (Schrank) (Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012a; Talebi et al. 2009; Barahoei et al. 2013); Chaitophorus spp. (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976, 1979; Starý et al. 2000; Barahoei et al. 2012, 2013; Rakhshani et al. 2012a, 2012b).
Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa
Iran (Starý 1979; Starý et al. 2000; Barahoei et al. 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani et al. 2007b, 2012a, 2012b; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Iraq (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976); Turkey (Eastern part – Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Western part – Uysal et al. 2004; Erdoğan et al. 2008).
General distribution
Holarctic, Neotropical, Oriental.
description: Published as part of Rakhshani, Ehsan, Barahoei, Hossein, Ahmad, Zubair, Starý, Petr, Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa, Mehrparvar, Mohsen, Kavallieratos, Nickolas G., Čkrkić, Jelisaveta & Tomanović, Željko, 2019, Review of Aphidiinae parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of the Middle East and North Africa: key to species and host associations, pp. 1-132 in European Journal of Taxonomy 552 on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.552, http://zenodo.org/record/3476562
A multilayer front-end for an imaging radar sensor
Creators: name: Leib, Mario
name: Mayer, Winfried
name: Bilzer, Horst
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Microwave imaging
subject: Radarsensor

description: N/A
Adialytus ambiguus Haliday 1834
Creators: name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Barahoei, Hossein
name: Ahmad, Zubair
name: Starý, Petr
name: Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa
name: Mehrparvar, Mohsen
name: Kavallieratos, Nickolas G.
name: Čkrkić, Jelisaveta
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Adialytus
Adialytus ambiguus

description: Adialytus ambiguus Haliday, 1834
Figs 2, 74, 177, 273, 375, 500, 511
Host records
Sipha elegans Del Guercio (Elmali 1997; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008b, 2012a; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Sipha flava (Forbes) (Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani et al. 2012a); Sipha maydis Passerini (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990a; Starý et al. 2000; Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani et al. 2012a, 2012b; Barahoei et al. 2013); Sipha sp. (Starý 1979).
Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa
Egypt (El-Ghiet et al. 2014 – as Adialytus cf. ambiguus (Haliday, 1834)); Iran (Starý 1979; Starý et al. 2000; Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani et al. 2012a, 2012b; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Israel (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990a); Turkey (Starý 1976; Central part – Elmali 1997; Western part – Uysal et al. 2004).
General distribution
Holarctic, Oriental.
description: Published as part of Rakhshani, Ehsan, Barahoei, Hossein, Ahmad, Zubair, Starý, Petr, Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa, Mehrparvar, Mohsen, Kavallieratos, Nickolas G., Čkrkić, Jelisaveta & Tomanović, Željko, 2019, Review of Aphidiinae parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of the Middle East and North Africa: key to species and host associations, pp. 1-132 in European Journal of Taxonomy 552 on page 4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.552, http://zenodo.org/record/3476562
A space mapping method allowing models with different parameter rank and physical meanings for coarse and fine model
Creators: name: Bilzer, Horst
name: Frank, Florian
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Digital mapping
subject: Modellierung

description: N/A
An evaluation of Asthma control using the Asthma control test in patients at the University Hospital, Agadir, Morocco.
Creators: name: Essaid, Youness
name: Bounoua, Fatiha
name: Abdala, Selma
name: Adarmouch, Latifa
name: Serhane, Hind
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Background: Asthma is a common chronic disease, and asthma control is the major therapeutic objective, thus ensuring a good health-related quality of life. This study aimed to evaluate the level of asthma control in a sample of asthmatic patients followed in allergology consultation during our training using the asthma control test (ACT) and its correlation with other parameters.

 

Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study of 66 asthmatic patients who were followed in pulmonology consultation at Agadir University Hospital after completing the asthma control test questionnaire over 6 months (June to December 2021).

 

Results: The age of the patients ranged from 17 to 76 years, with an average age of 41.36 +/- 13.31 years. There was a predominance of females in this sample, representing 54.5% of the patients against 45.5% of males. All patients were on inhaled corticosteroid therapy (ICS) (as monotherapy in 25.8% of cases and in combination with a long-acting beta-2 mimetic (LABA) in 74.2% of cases). 60.6% of the patients were from low socioeconomic levels, of which 28.8% were from rural areas. 22.7% of the participants were illiterate. Allergic rhinitis was found in 66.6% of patients and allergic conjunctivitis in 45.5%. Active smoking was found in 16.7% of cases. Obesity was found in 10 patients (15.2% of cases). According to the ACT, asthma was totally controlled in 37.9% of cases and partially controlled in 43.9% of patients.

 

Conclusion: The level of asthma control found in this study was lower compared to other populations. The study also showed that better ACT scores and asthma control correlated with higher socioeconomic levels.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December
Design of duplexer "inserts" for mobile phone module applications
Creators: name: Kiwitt, Jürgen
name: Pitschi, Maximilian
name: Fleckenstein, Andreas
name: Koch, Robert
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
name: Weigel, Robert
name: Wagner, Karl C.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Cellular telephones
subject: Mobile Telekommunikation

description: N/A
11Hoja de Procesamiento de Datos derivados de una Revisión Literaria sobre la efectividad de Modelos de Inteligencia Artificial en el Diagnóstico de Trastornos Gastrointestinales
Creators: name: Esquén Salazar, Erenia Vanessa
name: Llamo Sánchez, Johan Iván
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Este conjunto de datos ha sido recopilado y estructurado como parte de una revisión bibliográfica sobre la efectividad de modelos de Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para el diagnóstico de trastornos gastrointestinales. En el se presenta una hoja de procesamiento y estructuración de datos para realizar el análisis, así como la inclusión de los archivos de exportación de datos bibliográficos provenientes de las bases de datos WOS (Web of Science) y SCOPUS. El objetivo es facilitar la organización y evaluación de esta revisión.-------------------------------------

This dataset has been compiled and structured as part of a literature review on the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders. It presents a data processing and structuring sheet to perform the analysis, as well as the inclusion of bibliographic data export files from the WOS (Web of Science) and SCOPUS databases. The objective is to facilitate the organization and evaluation of this review.
UWB pulse oscillator at 24 GHz with 2.1 GHz bandwidth for industrial radar sensor applications
Creators: name: Wuchenauer, Thomas
name: Nalezinski, Martin
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Oscillators, microwave
subject: Radarsensor

description: N/A
Additional file 5: of Genome-wide organization and expression profiling of the R2R3-MYB transcription factor family in pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Creators: name: Chaoyang Liu
name: Xie, Tao
name: Chenjie Chen
name: Aiping Luan
name: Jianmei Long
name: Chuhao Li
name: Yaqi Ding
name: Yehua He
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Phylogenetic tree of the R2R3-MYB proteins from pineapple and Arabidopsis based on neighbor-joining method using MEGA 5.0 software. The numbers beside the branches represent bootstrap support values (>50%) from 1000 replications. (PDF 12Â kb)
An experimental study on using electronically scanning microwave radar systems on surface mining machines
Creators: name: Nienhaus, Karl
name: Winkel, Reik
name: Mayer, Winfried
name: Gronau, Arnold
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Strip mining
subject: Radar
subject: Scanning

description: N/A
Otorhinological disorders among pregnant women attending obstetric clinic at Benjamin Mkapa Hospital in Dodoma Region, Tanzania
Creators: name: Abraham, Zephania Saitabau
name: Rweyemamu, Allan
name: Kahinga, Aveline Aloyce
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2025

description: Background: Pregnancy leads to physiological changes primarily driven by hormones like oestrogen and progesterone. Such changes are multi-systemic in nature including involvement of the ear, nose and throat. Such changes impair the quality of the life of pregnant women and thus requires prompt intervention during pregnancy. This study aimed to determine otorhinological disorders among pregnant women attending obstetric clinic at Benjamin Mkapa Hospital.

 

Methodology: A hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Benjamin Mkapa Hospital from June to August 2023. A total of 246 pregnant women were recruited after consenting where data on their age, gestational age, and otological and rhinological disorders were obtained. Otoscopic and rhinoscopic examination were done and recorded in the data collection sheet. Data was analysed using a Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. A p-value<0.05 was statistically significant.

 

Results: This study recruited 246 pregnant women with majority 135(52.8%) in the 3rd trimester. Pertaining otological disorders manifested by pregnant women, majority 39(15.9%) of them presented with hearing loss/reduced hearing ability, and conductive hearing loss was the most common type, 19(48.7%). Regarding rhinological disorders, 47(19.1%) pregnant women had allergic rhinitis and most of them presented with nasal obstruction 41(87.2%), nasal bleeding 12(25.5%) and pale pinkish inferior turbinate,3(6.4%). Eighty (32.7%) pregnant women had olfactory disturbance whereby most of them had reduced sense of smell 41(51.3%). The association between otorhinological disorders and gestational age was significant for only allergic rhinitis and olfactory disturbance (p-value<0.05).

 

Conclusion: The study concludes that otorhinological disorders are common among pregnant women, with a significant number experiencing hearing loss, allergic rhinitis, and olfactory disturbances. Specifically, allergic rhinitis and olfactory disturbances are significantly associated with the trimesters of pregnancy, while other disorders like hearing loss, Bell’s palsy, otitis externa, and sinusitis do not show a significant association with the pregnancy trimesters. This highlights the need for prompt intervention to manage these conditions and improve the quality of life for pregnant women.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 6 (2024): November to December