OAR@UM Collection:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/1662024-03-29T10:51:11Z2024-03-29T10:51:11ZSmoking behaviour in pregnant Maltese femalesBonnici, DorianneCacciottolo, Joseph M.Serracino-Inglott, Anthonyhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/8252020-06-04T14:37:58Z1989-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Smoking behaviour in pregnant Maltese females
Authors: Bonnici, Dorianne; Cacciottolo, Joseph M.; Serracino-Inglott, Anthony
Abstract: The smoking behaviour of a randomly selected group of pregnant Maltese females attending the Antenatal clinic at Karin Grech Hospital, Malta was studied during the first four months of 1988. The group was also screened with regard to educational attainment, occupation and attitudes to smoking. It was found out that 45.4%, used to smoke before getting pregnant while 22.6% still smoked during their current pregnancy. The reasons for and the duration of the smoking habit are among the findings that are discussed.1989-01-01T00:00:00ZResidential areas of medical and paramedical personnel in Valletta in the late eighteenth centuryCassar, Paulhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/7112020-05-28T13:08:08Z1989-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Residential areas of medical and paramedical personnel in Valletta in the late eighteenth century
Authors: Cassar, Paul
Abstract: This study attempts to trace and record the names and the whereabouts of residences of medical and paramedical personnel living in Valletta in 1766 and there social environment. The source of which it is based is a roll or survey drawn up in that year and listing the male population of Valletta and Floriana liable to be called for military service.1989-01-01T00:00:00ZLaparoscopy in general surgery in MaltaGalea, JosephGatt, Dennishttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/6332020-06-30T11:00:16Z1989-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Laparoscopy in general surgery in Malta
Authors: Galea, Joseph; Gatt, Dennis
Abstract: A first series of fifty non-acute laparoscopies in general surgical practice in Malta are presented with particular reference to the indications for the procedure and its diagnostic yield. The series includes the first case of Curtis Fitz-Hugh syndrome to be diagnosed laparoscopically in Malta and the use of laparoscopy for splenic smear preparation under direct vision in visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar), a method not described previously. The series had a 100%, diagnostic yield in cases of hepatomegaly and abdominal mass but only a 60% yield in cases of splenomegaly. There were one major and one minor complications both occurring in the same patient.1989-01-01T00:00:00ZCutting for the stoneGriffiths, Victor G.https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/6162020-06-04T11:45:54Z1989-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Cutting for the stone
Authors: Griffiths, Victor G.
Abstract: Stone in the bladder was a common affliction throughout Europe until the early years of this century when for reasons possibly dietary but still obscure it became very much less frequently especially in children. The operation for its removal, ‘cutting for the stone’, or lithotomy, is one of the very oldest in surgery, and indeed, in many centuries of pre-anaesthetic and pre-Listerian era, lithotomy was one of the very few ’cold’ or elective operations to which man submitted, the distressing features of the malady out-weighting the hellish torments and the mortal risks of the operation. For fairly obvious reasons of relative accessibility and safety, the perineal approach to the bladder was the original and the classical one, and it is to perineal lithotomy that I shall confine myself in this account. The position in which the patient was placed, securely bound or forcibly held for the operation remains as an unforgettable feature of surgical vocabulary even though we now use it for other perineal procedures.1989-01-01T00:00:00Z