OBJECTIVES To determine the accuracy of the resistance index (RI) of flow velocity waveforms of the umbilical artery measured using a newly developed PC-based continuous wave Doppler device (Umbiflow) with regard to systematic and random variations when compared with a commercial standard (Vasoflow). DESIGN A cohort study. SETTING The fetal evaluation clinic (FEC) at Tygerberg Hospital. S...

1Clinic Schizophrenia Program (PEC), Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, 7300 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA 3Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town...

Martin O.C. Ota, Joseph F. Mendy, Simon Donkor, Toyin Togun, Mohammed Daramy, Marie P. Gomez, Novel N. Chegou, Abdou K. Sillah, Olumuyiwa Owolabi, Beate Kampmann, Gerhard Walzl and Jayne S. Sutherland Vaccinology Theme, Medical Research Council Unit, Fajara, the Gambia. DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division ...

AIM To improve the understanding of factors that influence adenosine deaminase ( ADA) activity in large pericardial effusions. METHODS A prospective study was carried out at Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa. Patients underwent echocardiographically guided pericardiocentesis. ADA activity, as well as biochemistry, haematology, cytology, and in some cases, histology, were determined. H...

To the Editor: A 35-year-old woman was referred to Tygerberg Hospital with vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal pain. She had moved to the Western Cape 6 months previously from Gauteng. She had a 6-week history of amenorrhoea and had been bleeding for about 5 days. She had had a heavy bleed the night before admission and thought that she had passed products of conception. The referring practiti...

Installed and working at laboratories in Salt River near Groote Schuur Hospital and at Tygerberg Hospital by late August last year, the adapted Lodox machines are causing major excitement among the country’s forensic experts. Dubbed the ‘ForenScan’ by staff at the Salt River forensic pathology laboratory, the low-dose radiography equipment is accelerating criminal investigations, enabling fast ...

Ndapewa Laudika Ithete, Samantha Stoffberg, Victor Max Corman, Veronika M. Cottontail, Leigh Rosanne Richards, M. Corrie Schoeman, Christian Drosten, Jan Felix Drexler,1 and Wolfgang Preiser1 Author affiliations: University of Stellenbosch/National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg, South Africa (N.L. Ithete, S. Stoffberg, W. Preiser); University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany (V.M. C...