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Profile of Hospitalisation and Death in the First Year after Diagnosis of End-stage Renal...
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is reaching epidemic proportions and is increasingly a public health issue due to the cost of providing care to these...
Immunophenotypic, Cytogenetic and Clinical Features of 113 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Patients in China
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is a heterogeneous disease with abnormal proliferation and accumulation of immature lymphoblasts within the bone marrow (BM), peripheral blood and...
Health-related Quality of Life in Children with Cancer Undergoing Treatment: A First Look at...
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been progressively acknowledged as an essential health outcome measure in clinical trials and health services research and evaluation....
Stress Levels amongst Caregivers of Patients with Osteoporotic Hip Fractures – A Prospective Cohort...
With the issue of an ageing population in many first-world countries, osteoporotic hip fractures remain a concern. These fractures are known to have a...
Submandibular Mass Excision in an Asian Population: A 10-year Review
Submandibular masses are common presenting complaints in the outpatient setting. The differential diagnosis of a submandibular mass lesion can be salivary gland pathology, lymph...
Clinical Outcomes of High-risk Labours Monitored Using Fetal Electrocardiography
Intermittent auscultation (IA), cardiotocography (CTG), amniotic fluid colour and fetal scalp capillary blood gas analysis are currently accepted standards for intrapartum fetal monitoring. According...
Microsurgical Reversal of Sterilisation – Is This Still Clinically Relevant Today?
Different contraceptive options are available today; however, tubal sterilisation is still one of the most prevailing contraceptive alternatives. Locally, many prefer mechanically occluding the...
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome: Data from the Singapore Polyposis Registry and a Shifting Paradigm in Management
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS) is an uncommon autosomal dominant hamartomatous polyposis syndrome associated with mucocutaneous melanocytic macules. Melanin deposition occurs most commonly in the perioral...
Non-haem Iron-mediated Oxidative Stress in Haemoglobin E Beta-thalassaemia
Thalassaemia is a genetic haemoglobinopathy in which the production of normal haemoglobin is partly or completely suppressed because of a defective synthesis of 1...
Thrombocytopenia and its Related Factors: A Hospital-based, Cross-sectional Study
Thrombocytopenia is a common clinical problem found in laboratory results during health examinations. Blood platelets play an essential role in haemostasis, thrombosis and coagulation...