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Volume 7, Issue 2 (7-2013)
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Background and Objective: The vast clinical testing process often is performed to diagnose the origin of the fever. The aim of this study was to investigate the rate of abnormal paraclinical findings of the neonates with fever.
Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 109 randomly selected febrile neonates admitted to Amir-Kabir Hospital, 2010. Blood, Cerebro Spinal Fluid (CSF) and Urine samples were sent to laboratory and the results were analyzed by Chi-Square test, using SPSS software.
Results: Blood culture of 19 cases (17.43 %) is positive. None of the CSF samples are gram positive and also show the sign of Meningitis.
Conclusion: With regard to the high rate of positive blood culture, it seems that the use of blood culture in febrile neonates is important for diagnosis.
Keywords: Fever Neonate Paraclinical Test
H Rafeemehr,
Volume 7, Issue 4 (1-2014)
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Background and Objective: Glutathione as a master antioxidant plays a key role in eliminating free radicals from your body and in preserving cell membrane integrity esp. blood cells. We aimed to assess the Erythrocyte Glutathione level of favism and non-favism neonates.
Material and Methods: This study was conducted in Ekbatan hospitals of Hamadan (2009) on 15 favism patients and 60 non-favism ones matched by sex and age. Using Beutler method, the reduced Glutathione (GSH) level of red blood cells was measured.
Results: Based on the results, the amount of erythrocyte GSH in favism patients was 14.99±4.62 mg/dl and that of controls was 58.2±10.59 mg/dl.
Conclusion: the results show that the erythrocyte GSH in favism patients is significantly lower than that of non-favism subjects therefore, the former seems more likely to be afflicted by hemolytic crises owing to the use of oxidant stuff.
Keywords: Favism Glutathone Neonates G6PD
