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Extent of malnutrition in Egyptian neonatal intensive care unit /

Ebtessam Farouk Abdelbadieh

Extent of malnutrition in Egyptian neonatal intensive care unit / مدى احتمال حدوث مرض سوء التغذية للأطفال حديثى الولادة فى وحدات الرعاية المركزة للأطفال حديثة الولادة فى مصر Ebtessam Farouk Abdelbadieh ; Supervised Iman Fathy Iskander , Samar Mohamed Sabry , Khalil Abdelkhalek Mohamed - Cairo : Ebtessam Farouk Abdelbadieh , 2012 - 122P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics

Extrauterine growth restriction is an identifiable marker of severe nutritional deficit during the first weeks of life . Nutrition is becoming a key factor not only for the growth of the newborn infants during their hospital stay but also for their long well being . The two strategies , aggressive early PN and minimal enteral nutrition should enhance the overall nutritional health of the preterm infants as evidenced by less postanatal weight loss , an earlier return to birth weight and improved over all postanatal growth and outcome



Amino acid Blood urea nitrogen Chloride