TY - BOOK AU - Marwa Zaky Abdeldayem Mohamed AU - Ahmed Samir , AU - Hassan Khaled Nagy , AU - Mohammed Ibrahim Afifi , TI - Low cholesterol and high CRP as prognostic factors for survival in severe sepsis / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marwa Zaky Abdeldayem Mohamed , KW - C-reactive protein KW - Cholesterol KW - Prognostic factor N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - To evaluate serum total cholesterol and serum C-reactive protein as a prognostic factor survival in patients with severe sepsis. Prospective observational study. The study population consisted of 40 patients (age range, 18-75 years; median, 56 years; men/women ratio, 2:3) in whom severe sepsis was diagnosed. Patients' serum levels of total cholesterol and C-reactive protein were measured upon admission to an intensive care unit, two days later, and seven days later ER -