Mohamed Sabry Elsawy Deif Allah

Phototherapy induced hypocalcemia in icteric newborns / نقص الكالسيوم الناتج عن العلاج الضوئى فى حديثى الولادة Mohamed Sabry Elsawy Deif Allah ; Supervised Zahra Mohamed Ezzeldin , Yasmin Amr Mansi , Tamer Ahmed Abdelhamid - Cairo : Mohamed Sabry Elsawy Deif Allah , 2012 - 111P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

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

Hyperbilirubinemia is the single most common abnormal physical finding in the first week of life . Phototherapy plays a significant role in the treatment and prevention of hyperbilirubinemia in neonates . This method leads to incidence of some side effects . A lesser known complication of the phototherapy is hypocalcemia . Some studies showed that phototherapy induced hypocalcemia occurs due to decreased serum melatonon concentration



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