TY - BOOK AU - Hany Gamal Foda AU - Dina Mohammed Elabd , AU - Reem Mahmoud Badr Eldeen , AU - Salma Zoheir Elhauchi , TI - Iron status of VLBW preterm infants receiving early iron supplementation / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hany Gamal Foda , KW - Early iron supplementation KW - Iron status KW - VLBW preterm N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Reviewing literature there is a number of limited studies that addressed enteral iron supplementation in treatment of anemia of prematurity . Thus the present study was designed to evaluate the effect of iron supplementation at 2 weeks of age on serum iron ferritin and various hematoloical parameters in very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm babies ER -