A tobacco-free hospital environment sends an important signal to patients and visitors with regard to both safety and a healthy lifestyle. Today patients, staff and visitors increasingly expect an antismoking policy to be in place in hospitals and other venues where sick people are treated. Health care staff can play an important role in the implementation of an antismoking policy in their hosp...

From July 1976 to December 1978 invasive carcinoma of the cervix in 369 new patients at Tygerberg Hospital, Parowvallei, CP, was classified into stages according to the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) classification. Most of these patients underwent routine intravenous pyelography, cystoscopy, and skeletal and chest radiography, the results of which were analysed i...

Figure 1. DNA from an Icelandic family was digested with Xbal and hybridised withpl71.14, asubclone from a cosmid isolated with p212/9. Autoradiographic exposure was for 16 hours. PCR-based detection of a polymorphic Haelll site in intron VII of the human albumin (ALB) gene J.C.Moolman, V.A.Corfield and G.Stevens Medical Research Council/University of Stellenbosch Centre for Molecular and Cellu...

There is an urgent need for comprehensive audiological services in South Africa to deal adequately with the problems of clinical, industrial and social medicine. The organisation built up in and around the Tygerberg Hospital is described, and may serve as a possible blueprint for what could be done in the rest of the country. In particular, the important role of the medical profession in the ha...


 Background. In South Africa, the prevalence of dyslipidaemia and hypertension (HT) in paediatric diabetes patients is unknown. Objectives. To determine HT diabetic seen at Tygerberg Hospital (TBH) establish whether either associated with body mass index (BMI), glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) or duration diabetes. Further, to differs between two specified periods.Methods. A retrospective...

Preterm delivery is the most important cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity in the developed world. 1 The prevalence of preterm delivery in First-World countries is 6-10%. 2 In developed countries very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) babies account for only 1-2.5% of all births. 3,4 However, more than half of prematurity-related deaths, morbidity and economic costs are due to VLBW neonates. 4 The...

BACKGROUND: To investigate the relationship of human semen parameters with season, age and smoking status. METHODS: The present study used data from subjects recruited into an ongoing cross-sectional study on the relationship between environmental agents and semen characteristics. Our population consisted of 306 patients who presented to the Vincent Memorial Andrology Laboratory of Massachusett...

OBJECTIVES To determine the current prevalence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in premature babies treated with non-invasive ventilation at Tygerberg Children's Hospital, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa, and to identify risk factors associated with the development of ROP. METHODS A retrospective medical records review of infants screened for ROP during a 2-year period (January 2009 - Decem...

BACKGROUND Human fertility is linked to sperm quality and therefore the establishment of reference values for normality is mandatory. AIMS The first aim was to establish a reference profile of men in the general population by examining the semen of partners of women with chronic anovulation. The second aim was to determine the prevalence of sperm abnormalities in this patient group. METHODS...