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? Severe Community Acquired PneumoniaOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The study showed that there was no statistically significant difference in serum total cortisol level regarding bacterial etiology and combined bacterial and viral etiology.
The study found also that there was no statistically significant difference in serum total cortisol level between CT chest pneumonia patterns.
The study found also there was no statistically significant difference in serum total cortisol level between the patients who were on mechanical ventilation and the patients who were not.
The study showed that there was no correlation between serum total cortisol and glasgow coma scale, arterial blood gases and total leucocytic count.
The study found that the patients had a statistically significant increase in the mean value of serum total cortisol among level when compared with controls.
In this study we found serum total cortisol level was positively correlated with the pneumonia severity index.