Background: Febrile seizure is a seizure that occurs when body temperature (rectal temperature 38°C) is increased by extra cranial process. The incidence of febrile is still quite high but there a…
Introduction: The incidence of childhood tuberculosis in the world still quite high, especially in Palembang. The diagnosis of TB in children is difficult to determine because of the absence of the…
Introduction: Gestational trophoblastic disease is a spectrum of condition that has a potential progression of malignancy, with characteristics of proliferation of the trophoblasts. Lesions includi…
Background: Conjunctivitis is the most common eye disease in the world. Conjunctivitis is inore commonly known as the pink eye, is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the clear inembrane that cover…
Background: Cataract is the clouding of the lens where each State of the eye which occurs as a result of hydration (adding liquid) lens, lens protein denaturation or due to both. Cataracts are the …
Background: Molar pregnancy is a trophoblastic gestational condition. Trophoblastic tissue produce human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone. In several condition elevated level of P-hCG serum may…
Iatroduction: Retinoblastoma is a malignant intraocular form that is most commonly found in children ages 2-5 years. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of retinobl…
Background: Placenta previa is defined as placenta that lies low in the uterus and partially or completely covers the orificium uteri intemum. The etiology of placenta previa remain unclear until n…
Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a disease that could potentially leads to significant quality-of-life impairment. The incidence of CRS nowadays tends to rise, yet there isn’t any puol…
Background: Lower respiratory tract infection is the 3"1 rank of mortalitity in the world. Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the bacteria that mostly infect lower respiratory tract. Since mortalit…
Introduction: Physical growth of children can be divided into four main periods. Two periods characterized by rapid growth and the two other periods characterized by slow growth. During the six-mon…
Background: Premature rupture of membrane (PROM) is the condition of rupture of the fetal membrane prior to the onset of labor. PROM is one of the most common of obstetrical complications. It cause…
Background: Nosocomial infection in JCU is an infection which develops 48 hours after ICU admission or wilhin 48 hours after being discharged. The prevalence of nosocomial infections is 5 to 10 lim…
Introduction : Regional anaesthesia is the mostly used technique for caesarean section. One of the most preferred technique is spinal anesthesia because it has some advantages such as rapid adminis…
Background: Shallot (Allium ascalonicum) contains non-polar antibacterial compounds such as steroid, semi-polar antibacterial compounds such as flavonoid, quercetin, terpenoid, monoterpenoid, sesqu…
Background: Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L) is a traditional medicine which contains saponins, alkaloids and glycosides that stated as antibacterial agent. The study was conducted to determine the e…
Introduction. Heart Failure is the end stage of all heart diseases and is the cause of increased morbidity and morlality of heart diseases ’ patients. Its prevalence and incidence keeps increasin…
ackground. Rheumatic Heart Diseases (RHD) is a heart disease caused by unfinished symptoms (seguele) from Rheumatic Fever (RF), which is marked by the occurence of heart valve defects. The incidenc…
Background: Some studies found that total cholesterol is one of thefactors that influence the formation of gallslones. However, there is a difference in the results found in other studies in which …
Diare adalah buang air besar (defekasi) dengan jumlah yang lebih banyak dari biasanya (normal 100-200 ml per jam tinja), dengan tinja berbentuk cairan atau setengah cair (setengah padat), dapat pul…
Visual impairment and blindness is still a Health problem. Most of blindness are caused by cataracts. The prevalence and causes of cataract in each place is different and not all places have data t…
Introduction: Approximately 12.5% (5.2 million) of children and adolescence have Noised Induced Threshold Shifts(NlTS) and approximately 17% (26 million) of Americans betM’een the ages of 20 and …
Introduction: Infertility is a problem in couples who have managed to obtain a pregnaney. Tnis study was conducteu to deiermine ine reiationship of obesity, women’s age, menstrual cycle, age at m…
Background: South Sumatera is the third province in Indonesia with the largest thalassemic patients. Hematologic parameter, especially hemoglobin, is an important parameter to be chccked before tra…
Introduction: Childhood tuberculosis is the main cause ofhigh morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries. Difficulty in obtaining reports of childhood TB, especially in Palembang, …
Background: Orbitocranial meningioma is a type of meningioma consisting of orbital meningioma and intracranial meningioma. Referring to epidemiology, the incidence of meningioma is higher in women …
Background : Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which is classified by the increase in blood glucose level. WHO predicted in 2004 more than 200 million people diagnose type 2 Diabetes me…
Background: Low back pain is a major health problem and most causes disability than other conditions. Some causative factors that play a role in the incidence of low back pain are physical activity…
Introduction. Labiopalatoschizis or cleft lip/palate is one of the most common congenital malformation. National prevalence of labiopalatoschizis is 0.2%. South Sumatra is one of seven provinces wi…
Background. Obesity nutrional status become one of DM risk factors. Nutritional status could be measured by body anthropometric measurements, namely body mass index (BMI). Other anthropometric meas…