Publications by authors named "Nehad Ahmed Karam"
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- Sepsis can lead to high lactate levels, which are crucial for assessing child mortality risk in severe cases.
- The study measured lactate levels in 46 critically ill children, finding a 54.3% mortality rate, with survivors showing better lactate metrics than those who did not survive.
- Lower lactate clearance rates were linked to higher mortality, establishing specific thresholds for predicting outcomes in the pediatric intensive care setting.
The importance of iron deficiency as a public health problem is based ultimately on the seriousness of its consequences on health. The most extensively investigated consequences of iron deficiency involve work performance and immune function. The significance of the effects on work performance is generally accepted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of the Immune Response to Interferon Gamma Release Assay and Tuberculin Skin Test Among BCG Vaccinated Children in East of Egypt: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Mohamed Refaat Beshir Alaa Ebrahim Zidan Hosam Fathi El-Saadny Raghdaa Abdelaziz Ramadan Nehad Ahmed Karam
Medicine (Baltimore)
April 2016
Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) vaccination is used routinely in most of countries, especially developing one. The efficacy of the BCG vaccination generally decreases with time. The tuberculin skin test (TST) is a most popular diagnostic test for suspicion of tuberculosis (TB) in children till now, but it has many false positives.
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