AIM Warfarin is a widely used anticoagulant for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolism. We conducted a retrospective review to determine the causes and management of warfarin toxicity of patients admitted to Tygerberg hospital between June 2014 and June 2015. RESULTS We identified and evaluated 126 patients who met the inclusion criteria. The cause of warfarin toxicity was identified...

Objective: This retrospective survey highlighted the characteristics of children under six years of age presenting with nursing caries who had two or more teeth extracted under intravenous sedation at the Tygerberg Oral Health Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. This survey was carried out in order to plan a communityappropriate intervention strategy. Methods: Records of 140 patients kept by the...

i Harriet Shezi Children’s Clinic, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Wits Paediatric HIV Clinics, University of the Witwatersrand ii Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, National Health Laboratory Service and Wits Paediatric HIV Clinics, University of the Witwatersrand iii Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, KID-CRU, Tygerberg Children’s Hospital & Stellenbosch University iv...

Author details Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, P.O. Box 30270-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. Division of Chemical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, P.O. Box 19113, Cape Town, South Africa. PathCare Kenya Ltd, P.O. Box 12560-00606, Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Human Pathology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676-00200, Nair...

Nine THPs were involved, working with 5 HOPE community health workers (CHWs). The scheme commenced with 6 weeks’ training in biomedical understanding of HIV/ AIDS and its treatment at Tygerberg Academic Hospital. Possibly harmful interactions between some traditional remedies and ARVs were emphasised;2 the THPs were also counselled against invasive treatments for clients with depleted immune sy...

The Tygerberg Children’s Choir (TCC) is rooted in South Africa’s Afrikaner culture. Its transition to a multicultural children’s choir, within drastically changed political dispensation, furnished rich subject for historiographic choir identity investigation. From its establishment 1972 until 2019, Hendrik D. Loock was the conductor. Since then has continued under Karina Erasmus. TCC one of old...

Anna Ridge,1* Patti Whyte,2 Malgosia Grzemska,3 Peter Donald4 and Suzanne Hill1 1Medicine Access and Rational Use, Department of Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 21/10 Joan Avenue, Dromana, Victoria, Australia 3936 3Tuberculosis, Operations and Coordination, Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 4Departm...

The use of retention gifts in clinical trials has been controversial, with some ethicists maintaining that such gifts represent undue inducement to the trial participants. A study was conducted at TREAD Research, a site-managed organisation based at Tygerberg Hospital, in which 302 participants completed a questionnaire that focused on their opinion with regard to such gifts. The results sugges...