TY - BOOK AU - Heba Tallah Mostafa Mahmoud AU - Ayman Albadawy , AU - Rania Hamdy , AU - Sherif Alanwary , TI - Diagnostic value of chest ultrasonography for respiratory distress syndrome in neonates / PY - 2016/// CY - Cairo : PB - Heba Tallah Mostafa Mahmoud , KW - Alanine aminotransferase KW - Base excess KW - Surface tension N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - This study was conducted on 60 preterm neonates, delivered in Elkasr Elainy hospital. They were admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit because of respiratory distress and 25 preterm neonates with no respiratory distress as control group. The aim of the study to determine the possible application of ultrasound in the diagnosis of RDS thus reducing the number of chest X-rays performed on neonates in NICUs. Thirty one cases were males (51.7%) and twenty nine cases were females (48.3%). Ten were delivered vaginally (16.7%) and fifty by cesarean section (83.3%). The mean gestational age for studied cases was 30 weeks; the mean weight was 1.354kg. Chest X-ray and ultrasonography were done in the first 48 hours of life UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -