Despite its original discovery in the late 1950s, monkeypox virus appears to have undergone significant alterations in the past three to four years that have made it easier for the virus to spread among humans. In 1958, the first monkeys with monkeypox were found in a lab in Copenhagen, Denmark. The monkeys have come from […]
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Proceedings of Peradeniya University International Research Sessions 2021, Sri Lanka, Vol. 23, 11th & 12th November 2021 iPURSE 2021 – 262 Health and Society Dietary Knowledge and Practice in Patients Undergoing Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis D.R.T.S. Dasanayake1,2*, A.M.S.D. Pathiranage1, H.G.N. Erandika2, M.A.A. Nayanamali2,3, S.D.B.P.P. Samarasekara1,2 and N. Nanayakkara2 1Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Health
ඌරෙකුගෙන් මිනිසෙකුට වකුගඩු බද්ධ කිරීමේ පළමු සාර්ථක පර්යේශණ සන්ධිස්ථානය ඉදිරි ඉන්ද්‍රිය හිඟතා විසඳීමේ පියවරක්ද? නිව් යෝර්ක් නගරයේ ශල්‍ය වෛද්‍යවරු මොළය අකර්මන්‍ය පුද්ගලයෙකුට ඌරු වකුගඩුවක් සාර්ථකව සම්බන්ධ කර පැය 54ක් පුරා ඉන්ද්‍රිය සාමාන්‍ය පරිදි ක්‍රියා කරන ආකාරය නිරීක්ෂණය කළහ. එවැනි ක්‍රියා පටිපාටි සතුන් අතර සිදු කර ඇති අතර, ඌරු වකුගඩුවක් මිනිස් සිරුරකට බද්ධ කළ පළමු අවස්ථාව
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Shakila Premarathne 1, Rohana Chandrajith 2, Nishantha Nanayakkara 3, C D Gamage 4, Neelakanthi Ratnatunga 5, Sulochana Wijetunge 5, Zeid Badurdeen 6, Shashika Guruge 7, N Elladeniya 6, K P S Madushan 6, K O C U Samarasiri 6, Pasan Hewavitharane 1, Dulanjali Herath 1, Sachintha Senarathne 8 Affiliations Centre for Research, National Hospital, Kandy,
Buddhi N.T.W. Fernando1,7 , Asfa Alli-Shaik2,7 , Rusiru K.D. Hemage1 , Zeid Badurdeen1 , Thilini W. Hettiarachchi1 , Hemalika T.K. Abeysundara3 , Thilak D.J. Abeysekara1 , Abdul Wazil4 , Saman Rathnayake5 , Jayantha Gunaratne2,6 and Nishantha Nanayakkara4 1 Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya,
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Shuchi Anand,1 Maria E. Montez-Rath,1 Dinuka Adasooriya,2,3 Neelakanthi Ratnatunga,4 Neeraja Kambham,5 Abdool Wazil,2 Sulcohana Wijetunge,4 Zeid Badurdeen,3 Charaka Ratnayake,2 Nishamani Karunasena,2 Stephen L. Schensul,6 Penny Valhos,7 Lalarukh Haider,8 Vivek Bhalla,1 Adeera Levin,9 Paul H. Wise,10 Glenn M. Chertow,1 Michele Barry,11 Andrew Z. Fire,5 and Nishantha Nanayakkara2,3 1 Division of Nephrology and Departments of 5
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Samantha Ratnayake1,2*, Zeid Badurdeen1 , Nishantha Nanayakkara3 , Tilak Abeysekara1 , Neelakanthi Ratnatunga4 and Ranjith Kumarasiri5 Abstract Background: The use of dipstick proteinuria to screen Chronic Kidney Disease of uncertain aetiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka is a recently debated matter of dispute. The aim of this study was to assess the suitability of biomarkers:
Thilini W. Hettiarachchi1 *, Buddhi N. T. W. Fernando2 , Thilini Sudeshika3 , Zeid Badurdeen1 , Shuchi Anand4 , Ajith Kularatne5 , Sulochana Wijetunge6 , Hemalika T. K. Abeysundara7 , Nishantha Nanayakkara8 1 Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Galaha, Sri Lanka. 2 Department of
