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Liver diseases in infancy and childhood : Single center experience in the year 2005

Thesis

Last updated: 06 Feb 2023

Subjects

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Tags

Pediatrics

Advisors

El-Qaraqssi, Hanaa M. , Muhammad, Gamal-El-Din E. , Kamal, Naglaa M.

Authors

Faissal, Rasha Ruhayem Ebrahim

Accessioned

2017-04-26 12:31:29

Available

2017-04-26 12:31:29

type

M.Sc. Thesis

Abstract

Recording of various liver diseases presenting to the PediatricHepatology Unit at Cairo University Children’s Hospital, which is atertiary referral center for pediatric liver diseases from all over Egypt. Itwas found that over a period of one year from the first of January to theend of December 2005, the commonest disorder presenting to the Unit in2005 was cholestatic disorders of infancy, which constituted 32.32 %,followed by acute hepatitis (29.1%), chronic viral hepatitis (10.2%),prolonged physiological jaundice (4.5%), glycogen storage diseases(3.8%), cryptogenic chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis (3%), other inbornerrors of metabolism (2.8%), portal hypertension secondary to portal veinobstruction (2.1%), autoimmune chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis (1.9 %),congenital hepatic fibrosis and polycystic disease of liver& kidney(1.7%), and miscellaneous (8.5%).

Issued

1 Jan 2007

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.21473/iknito-space/32810

Details

Type

Thesis

Created At

28 Jan 2023