Ileus in children presenting with diarrhea and severe acute malnutrition: A chart review.

• Main Authors: Mohammod Jobayer Chisti (Author), Abu Smsb Shahid (Author), K M Shahunja (Author), Pradip Kumar Bardhan (Author), Abu Syeed Golam Faruque (Author), Lubaba Shahrin (Author), Sumon Kumar Das (Author), Dipesh Kumar Barua (Author), Md Iqbal Hossain (Author), Tahmeed Ahmed (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Severely malnourished children aged under five years requiring hospital admission for diarrheal illness frequently develop ileus during hospitalization with often fatal outcomes. However, there is no data on risk factors and outcome of ileus in such children. We intended to evaluate predi...