TY  - BOOK
AU  - Talal Mustafa Dughman
AU  - Heba Hani AbouHussein , 
AU  - Raba Elsayed Elhawary , 
AU  - Shereen Mohammed Abdelmonem  , 
TI  - Serum Leptin as an indicator for severity of pneumonia / 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Talal Mustafa Dughman , 
KW  - Pneumonia
KW  - Serum leptin
KW  - Severe
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD
N2  - Pneumonia is a common illness affecting approximately 450 million people a year and occurring in all parts of the world (Ruuskanen et al., 2011).  It is a major cause of death among all age groups resulting in 4 million deaths (7% of the world's total death) yearly (Kabra et al., 2010) . The present study aimed to assess serum leptin   in children with   pneumonia and its relation to the clinical severity of the disease. The present study included 82 children aged 2months until 5 years of age presented with clinical picture of  pneumonia. All children in the study were subjected to full medical history, thorough clinical examination and laboratory investigations including serum leptin for both ward and PICU and also chest X ray were done to all cases
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ER  -