Clinical predictors and outcome of metabolic acidosis in under-five children admitted to an urban hospital in Bangladesh with diarrhea and pneumonia.

BACKGROUND: Clinical features of metabolic acidosis and pneumonia frequently overlap in young diarrheal children, resulting in differentiation from each other very difficult. However, there is no published data on the predictors of metabolic acidosis in diarrheal children also having pneumonia. Our...

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Main Authors: Mohammod J Chisti, Tahmeed Ahmed, Hasan Ashraf, A S G Faruque, Pradip K Bardhan, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Sayeeda Huq, Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammed A Salam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3376101?pdf=render