Profile of liver disease in Egyptian infants and children.
The causes of hepatopathies were studied retrospectively in a group of 200 infants who were inpatients at the Paediatric Department of Ain Shams University, Cairo, over the period 1977-1981, and prospectively in 50 children who were outpatients of the Paediatric Hepatology Clinic over the period October 1982-March 1983. The main cause of hepatopathy in both groups was hepatitis, followed by protein-calorie malnutrition in infants and bilharziasis in children. Suggestions are made as to methods of prevention.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004534:Egypt; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000150:complications