BACKGROUND Neonatal sepsis is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among the newborns in the developing world. OBJECTIVES To determine the common bacterial isolates causing sepsis in neonatal intensive care unit and its antibiotic susceptibility pattern. METHODS A one year discriptive prospective study was conducted in neonatal intensive care unit to analyse the results of blo...

BACKGROUND The role of inflammation in patients with coronary artery disease is emerging. We sought to assess the profile and outcomes of patients with a clinical syndrome of severe systemic inflammation that led to a diagnosis of suspected sepsis in the setting of acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock (CS). METHODS Patients enrolled in the randomized SHOCK (SHould we e...

Objective: To study the maternal risk factors and clinico-bacteriological profile of early onset sepsis (EOS) and performance of sepsis screen parameter in a tertiary care neonatal unit. Methods: Relevant data of neonates born during the study period were obtained from their case records. A diagnosis of early onset sepsis was made if either clinical sepsis developed within 48 hours of life and ...

introduction early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis is essential for successful treatment. blood culture is a gold standard for diagnosis but the final results are not available until 48-72 hours after culture. interleukin-6 (il-6) as a marker plays a critical role in the induction of c-reactive protein (crp) synthesis in the liver. it has been hypothesized that this cytokine could be detected in b...

Sepsis is one of the significant causes global morbidity and mortality. One keystones sepsis diagnosis treatment Blood Culture (BC) test. BC performed after intravenous Antibiotic Administration (AA) appears to reduce culture positivity rate. This study aimed evaluate influence AA before obtaining blood samples on was a retrospective cohort study, conducted from January February 2020 patients w...

BACKGROUND Neonatal sepsis is difficult to diagnose and pathogens cannot be detected from blood cultures in many cases. Development of a rapid and accurate method for detecting pathogens is thus essential. The main purpose of this study was to identify etiological agents in clinically diagnosed neonatal sepsis using bacterial ribosomal RNA-targeted reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (BrRNA-...

Background: Late onset neutropenia (neutropenia after 3 weeks of life) may be a physiological condition without need to prescribe antibiotics, G-CSF, or IVIG. We aimed to determine the association between sepsis and late onset neutropenia in very low birth weight (<1500 gm) infants.&nbsp; Methods: This study was a cross-sectional prospective study in VLBW infants that were admitted in Mahdieh ...

INTRODUCTION Sepsis is a common complication in the neonatal intensive care unit. It is most common in the smallest and most premature infants in whom the clinical presentation can be subtle and nonspecific. The objectives of the present study were to identify the most common organisms causing sepsis and their associations with thrombocytopenia. METHODS This is a retrospective case analysis o...