TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yasmin Saied Aly
AU  - Hafez Mahmoud Bazaraa , 
AU  - Hanaa Ibrahim Rady , 
AU  - Mona Hassan Hafez , 
TI  - Adrenocortical status in infants and children with sepsis and septic shock / 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Yasmin Saied Aly , 
KW  - Corticosteroids
KW  - Pediatric ICU
KW  - Relative adrenal insufficiency
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD
N2  - Servere sepsis and septic shock remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Paediatric ICU . Whether these patiients would benefit from corticosteroids remains controversial and the presence of adrenocortical insufficiency has been proposed to justify steroid use . In order to study adrenocortical state in infants and children with SIRS and septic shock , cortisol levels were estimated at baseline and after high - dose ACTH stimulation in 30 cases and 30 controls
ER  -