Predictors of mortality in infants with sclerema presenting to the centre for diarrhoeal disease, dhaka

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-50

  Chisti, M J ^a   Saha, S ^b   Roy, C N ^a   Ahmed, T ^a   Faruque, A S G ^a   Salam, M A ^a   Islam, S ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b EAST WEST UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMMONIA; AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; FOLIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; INFUSION FLUID; MAGNESIUM; MULTIVITAMIN; POTASSIUM; RETINOL; ZINC;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLERODERMA; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STUDENT T TEST; UNDERWEIGHT; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL SKIN DISEASE; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS;

AMMONIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEREMA NEONATORUM; SHOCK, SEPTIC; THINNESS;

EID: 63849191313     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: 14653281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532809X402024     Document Type: Article

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