A wound is an injury or damage to a living tissue arising from different agents. There are different types of wounds caused by different agents with varying degrees of severity. Some wounds are minor but others may be severe enough to cause loss of function of a whole organ, tissue, or cell. …
Skin Grafts are used to mainly to help in wound healing and also done when a part of the skin has been excised due to cancer. Skin grafting is a procedure whereby a part of the skin is harvested from and transferred to another part in order to help wound healing. What is …
What is Hematuria? Hematuria is simply defined as blood in urine. There could be Microscopic or Gross Hematuria – where the blood in the urine is not seen with the eyes (it is referred to as microscopic hematuria) while the one seen and which makes the urine red is called gross hematuria. …
. Medicine and surgery is a rigorous course to study in Nigeria and in other parts of the world because of the nature of the Medical school curriculum and the nature of the examinations. While training to be a Medical doctor; there are certain things you must learn in other to successfully graduate …
Wound Healing is the replacement of damaged or dead tissue by a living fibrous tissue. Wound healing is different from Regeneration which is the replacement of damaged tissue with another tissue that is similar like the damaged one and the replacement is indistinguishable. Regeneration occurs in lower animals such as earthworms but it does …
What is Drug Resistant Tuberculosis? Drug resistant Tuberculosis refers to a case of TB (which is mostly pulmonary Tuberculosis) in which the patient is excreting bacilli resistant to one or more anti tuberculosis drugs; All TB patients have some naturally resistant strains of TB bacilli. Resistance to Isoniazid is about 1 in 106 …
Hypospadias is a relatively common congenital defect of the male external genitalia in which the urethra opens at an abnormal position at the under surface of the penile shaft to the perineum. Hypospadias Epidemiology Hypospadias is present in approximately 1 in 250 male newborns; it may occur as an isolated defect or …
Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS co infection refers to a condition whereby someone has both TB and HIV together. This co infection is very dangerous as it promotes the progression of both diseases. The Tuberculosis makes it easier for HIV to progress rapidly while the HIV makes it possible for Tuberculosis to spread leading …