Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 623871, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/623871
Research Article

Atrial Natriuretic Peptide in Young and Elderly Children with Mild Gastroenteritis

A. Klar,1,2 E. Haver,3 D. Lichtstein,4 H. Hurvitz,2 and T. Foah-Shauli2

1Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Bikur Cholim General Hospital, P. O. Box 492, Jerusalem 91004, Israel
2Department of Pediatrics, Bikur Cholim General Hospital, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
3Medical Administration, Kaplan-Harzfeld Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel
4Department of Physiology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Received 10 December 2008; Revised 15 March 2009; Accepted 2 April 2009

Academic Editor: Karel Geboes

Copyright © 2009 A. Klar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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