role of scrum nitric oxide in neonatal sepsis

ABSTRACT

Sepsis is still one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in the neonatal period. Knowledge of neonatal risk factors together with early markers of sepsis accelerate the diagnosis of sepsis with prognostic improvements. Numerous investigators have evaluated the usefulness of various laboratory tests in the diagnosis of systemic infection in the neonates. This study measured the level of serum nitric oxide in thirty neonates with sepsis and in twenty healthy newborns as control. Nitric oxide was highly significant in the neonates with sepsis. We also compared the levels of nitric oxide with CRP and TLC. Nitric oxide was found to be a significant marker of neonatal sepsis