A recent study by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Perinatal Mortality Research Unit at Tygerberg Hospital found that 39% of pregnant women smoked cigarettes.1 Smoking in pregnancy is clearly recognised in the literature as an important, dose-related, preventable risk factor for poor perinatal outcome.2 Aprevious MRC finding that 47% of South African coloured women smoke during pregnancy3 sta...

1 Centre for Paediatrics, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2 MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom, 3 Zvitambo Project, Harare, Zimbabwe, 4 Children’s Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Children’s Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa, 5 Mulago Hospital, Paediatric Infecti...

521 August 2014, Vol. 104, No. 8 Mammography reporting at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa To the Editor: The evasive response of Apffelstaedt et al.[1] with regard to the actual mammographic reporting methodology that forms the basis of their research[2] highlights concerns reflected in our letter[3] and raises clinical, ethical and scientific questions. Apffelstaedt et al. need to ...

2014;27(4) S Afr J Clin Nutr Visser J, BSc Dietetics, M Nutrition; Senior Lecturer Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University; Tygerberg Academic Hospital Notelovitz T, MBBCh, MNutrition; Private Practice Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University Szabo CP, MBBCh, FCPsych, MMed, PhD, MSc(Med), ...

From June 1978 to November 1979, 298 patients with meningococcal disease were seen at Tygerberg Hospital, Parowvallei, CP. The manner of presentation, the diagnosis and some of the clinical features of these patients are reviewed and certain aspects discussed.

The aim of the study was to conduct a structured review of the literature published on the use of normal sperm morphology, as an indicator of male fertility potential in intrauterine insemination (IUI) programmes. Published literature in which normal sperm morphology was used to predict pregnancy outcome in IUI during the period 1984-1998 was reviewed. In total, 421 articles were identified via...

South Africa currently lacks a pre-recorded South African English (SAE) specific speech discrimination test. In the absence of such a test, the SAE speaker recording (Tygerberg recording) of the American (USA) English (AE) CID W22 wordlists--in combination with the original American CID W22 normative data--is the most widely used alternative. The reliability and validity of this method, however...

CITATION: De Beer, C., Ayele, B. T. & Dempers, J. 2021. Immune biomarkers as an adjunct diagnostic modality of infection in cases sudden and unexpected death infancy (SUDI) at Tygerberg Medico-legal Mortuary, Cape Town, South Africa. Human Pathology: Case Reports, 23:200477, doi:10.1016/j.ehpc.2021.200477.

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem in the Western Cape, with an incidence exceeding 900 per 100 000 people. Nosocomial transmission of TB, and particularly drug-resistant TB, is a potential risk that may be undetected. Rapid diagnosis and rapid institution of effective anti-TB treatment, combined with appropriate infection control measures, are essential to prevent nosocomia...