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Ethnicity, Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Ischaemic Heart Disease
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a condition whereby there is snoring associated with complete or partial cessation of breathing during sleep, associated with nocturnal...
A Study to Assess the Effect of Dietary Supplementation with Soluble Fibre (Minolest®) on...
Hypercholesterolaemia is one of the major risk factors in the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). In recent years, many non-prescription treatments have become...
Rapid Mycobacterial Tuberculosis Detection in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Samples by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Patients...
Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), the incidence of which is rising, poses a major health problem. It is caused by <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>. The isolation of <i>Mycobacterium...
Extent and Appropriateness of Emergency Department Services Usage by Foreign Workers in Singapore
Singapore employs more than 350,000 foreign workers currently. With this influx of foreign workers into our city-state which has limited land and resources, it...
Retinopathy of Prematurity in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), which could lead to visual impairment and blindness, is a recognised serious morbidity amongst surviving premature infants. The inverse relationship...
Standard Oesophageal Manometry in Healthy Adults in Singapore
Although standard oesophageal manometry has been widely used in the West for many years, normal manometric values that have been well described for healthy...
Drowning and Near-drowning—Some Lessons Learnt
Drowning is defined as suffocation from submersion in a liquid with death within the first twenty-four hours. Near-drowning implies that recovery has occurred, at...
Dissemination of Respiratory Secretions During Tracheal Tube Suctioning in an Intensive Care Unit
Tracheal tube suctioning is frequently performed in critically ill patients. This procedure often results in dissemination of droplets from the patient’s respiratory tract with...
Role of Ultrasonography in Screening for Urological Malignancies in Patients Presenting With Painless Haematuria
Haematuria of any degree should never be ignored and, in adults, it should be regarded as a symptom of urological malignancy until proven otherwise....
Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Angiography in Patients with Hemifacial Spasm
Hemifacial spasm (HFS), characterized by intermittent twitching of muscles supplied by one facial nerve is commonly due to compression of the facial nerve by...