There were 89 patients, no death in an outbreak of cholera in Dong Thap province, which happened on January 1st 1999 and lasted for 2 months. The morbidity was 5,61/100.000 inhabitants with all ages; the disease occurred at districts, towns along the Cuu Long river. Local authorities had conducted measures for cholera prevention and control.
Cholera ; Disease Outbreaks

Morbidity and mortality of typhoid fever in Dong Thap province had reduced gradually in the last 10 years. The number of typhoid fever between 1999 and 2003 was equal to a third cases occurred between 1994 and 1998. There had been 29 of dead cases resulting from typhoid fever for ten years. The highest number of dead cases in 1995 was 6. The death to incidence ratio was 0.076%
epidemiology ; Typhoid Fever ; Fever

Studying on typhoid fever in 16417 people of Binh Thanh Trung commune and 16324 ones of Vinh Thanh commune (control commune) after 2 years with the intervention. The results showed that drinking water sterilized by chloramin B increased by 295.58%, drinking boiling water increased by 10.06%; drinking rainny water increased by 464.30%; vegetable washing by safety water increased by 2886.61%, good sanitary latrine increased by 292.30%, close fish pond latrine increased by 46.91%, sinking latrine increased by 195.995%, fish pond latrine open to river reduced by 17.68%, latrine on the river reduced by 29.24%. Typhoid fever reduced by 92% in comparison to before interventrion. Real effect in comparison to control commune was 5.04%
Typhoid Fever ; Therapeutics ; Epidemiology

Background: Gougerot-Sj\xf6gren syndrome is an autoimmune disorder with two remarkable symptoms such as dry eyes and dry mouth. Objective: To study the symptoms of dry mouth of Gougerot-Sj\xf6gren syndrome after rheumatoid arthritis; To evaluate clinical and subclinical manifestations of dry mouth. Subjects and method: A prospective, descriptive, cross-sectional study included 160 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, who treated at Department of Rheumatology of Bach Mai hospital, from 1998 to 2003. The patients were divided into 2 groups: 60 patients with Gougerot-Sj\xf6gren syndrome and 100 patients without Gougerot-Sj\xf6gren syndrome. Results: The average age of patients with Gougerot-Sj\xf6gren syndrome was 54.55 \xb1 10.91 years. The mean time of having dry mouth was 8.65 \xb1 8.39 months. Clinical manifestations of dry mouth were sensation of dry mouth (90%), lost of saliva (80%), drink a lot of water while eating (58.3%), enlargement of parotid glands (15%). Degrees of dry mouth were mild and moderate (36.7%), severe (53.3%). 93.3% of patients decreased total salivary flow.82% of patients had 3 and 4 anatomopathologic stages according to Chilsom classification. Conclusion: Incidence of symptoms of dry mouth was higher significantly in the rheumatoid arthritis patients with Gougerot-Sj\xf6gren syndrome than those without Gougerot-Sj\xf6gren syndrome.
Arthritis ; Rheumatoid/ pathology ; diagnosis ; Sjogren's Syndrome/ pathology ; diagnosis ; Xerostomia/ pathology ; diagnosis

Background: Tophi is an important symptom of chronic gout. Objective: To assess clinical characteristics of topbi and its relationships with other manifestations of chronic gout. Subjects and method: A study was conducted in 65 patients diagnosed chronic gout based on Bennett and Wood criteria 1968, with tophi, treated at Department of Rheumatology, Bach Mai hospital, from December 2003 to June 2004. This was a retrospective, prospective, cross-sectional study. Results and conclusions: All patients were males and the average age was 57.8 \xb1 11.71 years. 72.3% of patients aged from 30 to 59 years. The average time of occurrence of tophi in chronic gout was 7.73 years. The mean number of tophi was 24.8 \xb1 9.4 (ranged from 1 to 70). Erosion of tophi occurred 25%. 92.9% of patients had distribution in inferiors limbs and 80.4% had superior limbs. There were relationships between number of tophi and renal lesions, distribution of tophi and number of painful joints.
Gout/ pathology ; therapy

717 post-operation cases of gastric adenocarcinoma were studied at Viet Duc Hospital from the year 1993 to 1998. Surgical accidents accounted for 0.41%, postoperative complication 7.5%, surgical mortality 3.1%. The curettage of glands did not increase the number of complication and death. 23% survived with a survival duration of 30.29 months pos-surgically. There were different rates of death between the group underwent radical management of the carcinoma by curettage and the one which did not. Curettage had prolonged the postoperative survival duration, without complication and death.
Carcinoma ; Therapeutics ; Surgery ; Adenocarcinoma ; Mortality

The aim of this study was to determine whether viral type HPV-6 and HPV-11 could have influence on the clinical course of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in children. The detection of viral typing, using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed on papilloma biopsies of 36 patients at ENT Hospital HCM City from 3/2000 to 3/2004. HPV-6 was detected in 17 patient's biopsies and HPV-11 in 19 biopsies. After the findings, patients infected by HPV-11 have more aggressive than patients infected by HPV-6 (73.7% vs 29.4%; p=0.008). Patients with HPV-11 have higher prevalence of tracheotomy and shorter interval time between two operations than patients with HPV-6
Papilloma ; Respiratory system ; epidemiology ; human papillomavirus 11 ; human papillomavirus 6

For the first time in Daklak, S. typhi strains were isolated from cases of suspected typhoid fever. MIC was investigated on 50 strains of S. typhi in Daklak from 1996-1998. The results were as following: All these isolated S.typhi strains were fully sensitive to common antibiotics (1g/ml for Tetracycline, Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and 4 g/ml for Ampicillin, Nalidixic acid and the third generation cephalosporin (Ceftriaxone M.I.C=0.125 g/ml) and the fluoquinolones (Ofloxacin M.I.C =0.25 g/ml), especially to 16% of Chloramphenicol-resistant isolates (with M.I.C = 64 g/ml). This is a great difference to compare with S.typhi strains isolated in Northern and Southern in Vietnam. Concerning the plasmid profile analysis, from 50 strains of S.typhi, the results showed that: All these strains did not harbour any R-plasmid. 43 strains harboured a plasmid lower than 70 Md. 7 strains did not harbour any kind of plasmids.
Anti-Bacterial Agents ; drugs ; Salmonella typhi

A study of clinical features and treatment was carried out on 1021 patients with schizophrenia at the Mental Department in the Military Hospital No 103 from January 1998 to December 2002. Results of the study: paranoid schizophrenia was 52.20%, delusion and hallucination symptoms were diversified. Loss of exercise symptom was 45.15%. Some typical drugs with medium dose were used. The percentage of complete recovery was 1.27%, abundant recovery (92.17%), mild recovery (4.80%), no improvement (1.76%). The common side effects of typical drug were extrapyramidal, allergic, depressive and chronic hepatitis
Schizophrenia ; Therapeutics ; Clinical Medicine

32 patients were studied on model pacemakers implantation as DDD, DDDR pacing, VVIR pacing and AICD (Automatic Implantable Cardioverter defibrillator), in which 23 cases (71.8%) with complete A-V block, 8 cases (25.0%) with Sick Sinus Syndrome and 1 (3.2%) case with Ventricular tachycardia. The implantation technique for all these patients were successfull: VVIR 24 cases (75.0%), DDD + VDD 4 cases (12.5%), DDDR 3 cases (9.4%) and ACID 1 case (3.2%). After implantation, there were 30/32 cases (93.8%) have controled on follow-up, in which 29/32 pacemaker (90.6%) were programed. Not any patients was died. This success improved quality of life for patients in Vietnam whose were suffer from serious arrhythmia heart diseases
Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; Therapeutics ; Pacemaker, Artificial