Mukhtaṣar al-Akhdarī (An Abbreviation of Imām al-Akhdarī)

The entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Mohammed Bara’u Musa & Hauwa Usman (Local Project Managers), Adamu Mohammed, Abacha Kachalla, Abdrra’uf Abdullahi & Falmaa Madu Ibrahim (General Field Facilitators), and Haladu Mamman (Photographer). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Director African Studies Center), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These Collections of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami materials are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Citation: Materials in this web edition should be cited as: Kurfi, Mustapha Hashim, Ngom, Fallou, and Castro, Eleni (2019). African Ajami Library: Digital Preservation of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami Materials of Northeastern Nigeria. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/38242. For Inquiries: Please contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: This manuscript is owned by Arikime Buba Maiduguri, Borno State. The owner, Arikime, inherited it from his father, Goni Buba, who died in 1988. The family had shared the inheritance of Goni Buba, and this manuscript and other books were given to Arikime. The manuscript has no publication date but the owner remembers that his father had it in his collection for a long time.This manuscript is written in Arabic with extensive glosses in Kanuri Ajami. The book was originally written by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhdarī. It is a well-known text on Islamic jurisprudence that students in madrasas and tsangayas study as part of their curriculum. In many instances, the author provides details and explanations on some grey areas in Islamic rituals and jurisprudence. The benefits of some rituals are notes in marginal glosses in Kanuri Ajami. The book is typical of a market edition, written in traditional ink and reproduced. It has nearly 50 chapters that cover themes such as monotheism, prophethood, relationships, purification of the heart and body, ritual prayers, fasting, and rulings on common mistakes in ritual prayers. Kanuri Ajami is used in interlinear glosses.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government

AngioVac System Used for Vegetation Debulking in a Patient with Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

AngioVac is a vacuum-based device approved in 2014 for percutaneous removal of undesirable materials from the intravascular system. Although numerous reports exist with regard to the use of the AngioVac device in aspiration of iliocaval, pulmonary, upper extremity, and right-sided heart chamber thrombi, very few data are present demonstrating its use in treatment of right-sided endocarditis. In this case report, we describe the novel device used in debulking a large right-sided tricuspid valve vegetation reducing the occurrence of septic embolisation and enhancing the efficacy of antibiotics in clearance of bloodstream infection. Further research is needed in larger RSIE patient populations to confirm the benefits and the potential of improved outcomes associated with the AngioVac device as well as identify its potential complications

Impact and Outcomes of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure Complicating Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction,Results from a Nationally-Representative United States Cohort

Introduction: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is seen in up to 13–25% of patients with NSTEMI. Recent data describing the impact of congestive heart failure (CHF) on in-hospital outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in the United States is limited. We sought to examine the in-hospital outcomes, and management of CHF in patients admitted to the hospital with NSTEMI. Methods: National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database (2010–2014) was analyzed to identify patients with NSTEMI using ICD-9-CM codes. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality. Propensity score-matching analysis compared mortality in CHF patients to matched controls without CHF. Results: Of 247,624 patients with NSTEMI, 84,115 (34%) had CHF. Patients with CHF were less likely to receive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) [20.48% vs. 40.9%, P \u3c 0.001] or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) [8.2% vs 9.6%, P \u3c 0.001] during hospitalization. Also, they had longer lengths of stay and higher risk for in-hospital adverse outcomes. CHF was the strongest predictor of in-hospital death. The increased mortality risk was persistent after propensity matching (RR 1.27; 95% CI 1.22 to 1.33). Conclusion: CHF among patients with NSTEMI is associated with increased risk for in-hospital mortality and adverse outcomes