This prospective study was designed to provide the frequencies of the haemoglobin genotypes, ABO and Rh blood groups and their effects on the haematocrit values among pregnant women in Port Harcourt. One hundred and eighty (180) pregnant women at their first clinic attendance and in their first pregnancy (parity - 0) participated in this study. The overall frequencies obtained for ABO and Rh bl...

psoriasis is an common, chronic, recurrent, inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by red scaling plaques on the skin surface. the morphology of psoriatic lesions allows classification of the different types of psoriasis that included plaque type, pustular type and erythrodermic type. i have studied the relationship between distribution of rh and abo blood groups in 110 psoriatic patie...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease caused by Virus (DENV), which concluding serotypes (1-4) through mosquito bites and transmitted into humans. DHF endemic has increasing cases every year in almost region Indonesia, such as Kabupaten Sleman. Currently, screening for Infectious Diseases Transmitted Blood Transfusion blood donor only requires Hepatitis B, C, HIV, Syphilis, despite any ot...

BACKGROUND Hemoglobinopathies are a group of inherited disorders of hemoglobin synthesis. It could be formed a fatal scenario in concern of lacking of actual information. Beside this, ABO and Rh blood grouping are also important matter in transfusion and forensic medicine and to reduce new born hemolytic disease (NHD). MATERIALS AND METHODS The spectrum and prevalence of various hemoglobinopa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the possible correlation between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and resistant hypertension (RH). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Patients who had undergone ambulatory blood pressure measurements (ABPM) during outpatient controls were enrolled. Fifty subjects with RH, 50 with controlled hypertension (CHT) and 50 normotensive subjects (NT) were included in the study. RH was defi...