Edana Cassol, Susan Malfeld, Phetole Mahasha, Schalk van der Merwe, Sharon Cassol, Chris Seebregts, Massimo Alfano, Guido Poli, and Theresa Rossouw MRC Unit for Inflammation and Immunity and the Hepatology and GI-Research Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria and the Tshwane Academic Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Pretoria,...

The petite University of Cape Town lecturer has been working with 2ndand 4th-year medical students in the hope of helping them bridge the cultural divide to create more effective outcomes, especially around HIV/AIDS. She cited the HOPE Cape Town Isangoma Pilot Project, based at Tygerberg Hospital, in which community health workers worked alongside Amagqirha over 6 weeks, giving the latter a sol...

Organ transplantation is an ideal treatment for certain late-stage diseases. With the report of a penile transplantation in Tygerberg Hospital, South Africa, this topic has, once again, aroused exploration in the field. At present, two penile transplantation operations have been performed and gained some positive results. Patients can gain void standing, erectile function and better cosmetic ap...

Author details MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH, UK. Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, NY, USA. Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Division of Pulmonology and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Mowbray, Cape Town, South A...

An evaluation of a 38-year-old Caucasian woman, who was referred to Tygerberg Hospital (Western Cape Province, RSA) with Wenckebach second-degree or possibly complete atrioventricular (AV) block that had progressed from first-degree AV block, identified a family history of the cardiac conduction system disorder progressive familial heart block type II (PFHBII). This prompted a retrospective cli...

BACKGROUND Initial management of acute poisoning in South African (SA) hospitals such as gastric decontamination and use of antidotes has not been evaluated relevant to current international guidelines. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to conduct a toxicovigilance survey of SA hospital admissions to assess the spectrum of acute poisonings, current practices in gastric decontaminatio...