C-Reactive Protein Levels in Children with Acute Gastroenterites

Faruk Alpay; Rıdvan Akın; Erdal Gökçay; Ethem Mert; Şakir Tanındı

doi:10.58600/eurjther.1994-5-2-1076-arch

Authors

Faruk Alpay GATA Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları ABD. Yrd. Doç. Dr.
Rıdvan Akın GATA Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları ABD. Yrd. Doç. Dr.
Erdal Gökçay GATA Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları ABD. Prof. Dr.
Ethem Mert 600 Yat.Ask.Hst.İzmir Çocuk Hst.Uzman Dr.
Şakir Tanındı GATA Çocuk Sağlığıı ve Hastalıkları ABD.Prof.Dr.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther.1994-5-2-1076-arch

Keywords:

Gastroenteritis, C-Reactive Protein

Abstract

This study was done to investigate the use of serum C-Reactive Protein level in the differential diagnosis of etiological factors in acute gastroenteritis. Enteropathogens could not be determined in the 65 of 136 patients (48 %). Some bacterial and protozoal agents were identified in 71 patients (52 %). in 64 of 71 patients in whom the enteropathogens were identified, serum CRP levels, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in 31 were high. The average values of CRP and ESR in the study group in which the pathogens were identified were significantıy higher than in both group that the enteropathogens could not be identified and the control group (p(0.001). No significant relationship between CRP and ESR values of the study group in which no enteropathogen was present and of the control group could be demonstrated (p)0.05). As a result, detennination of the serum CRP level the diagnosis of bacterial and protozoal gastroenteritis was found to be a useful laboratory method.

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