Serrum Iron and Recurrent Infection in Children

This study aims to analyze the serum iron levels in children with recurrent respiratory and urinary infection . It includes 176 children who consulted the children department in Al-Assad University hospital in Lattakia and its external clinics during the period between 1/1/2012 and 1/1/2014 whose ages were between 1-9 years old . The recurrent respiratory infections were in 75 patients and the urinary recurrent infections in 21 patients. 80 healthy children didn't show any recurrent infection or chronic diseases. This study showed that the mean serum iron level in children with recurrent respiratory infection and those who had recurrent urinary infection compared to serum levels in healthy children was less . It is also found that recurrent respiratory and urinary infection increases with the reduction of hemoglobin.

prevalence of urinary infection in pregnant women that review the department of obstetrics and gynecology at AL Assad University Hospital

This study includes (409)pregnant women elected from patients who have been admitted to the department of obstetrics and gynecology or outpatient clinic belonging to Assad University Hospital in Lattakia during the study period from 01/09/2014 up to 01/09/2015.patients have been classified in tow groups: symptomatic and non symptomatic(109 and 300 patient respectively).It has been diagnosed asymptomatic bacteriuria in accordance with the standard (Edward Kass) at a rate (12%).We found that the age lesser than 30 years, is a risk factor important in the occurrence of urinary infection ,there is no importance for the pattern of work, and most of the cases of the asymptomatic bacteriuria is in the second trimester (14-28 weeks) and multigravida account of (73.9 %) of the group of bacteriuric asymptomatic patients.Study shows that the bacterial urine culture is the golden diagnostic test to detect urinary tract infection in pregnant women, and it also shows the non-reliability of the urinalysis test, because of the high false negativity in the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria .Escherichia coli was the most common bacterial organisim causing bacterial urinary infections in patients study, by 66.7% for a frank urinary sepsis, and 80.2% for the group asymptomatic bacteriuria .