Study Effect of Bacterial Infections on Some Physiological and Biochemical Parameters in Heart Failure Patients, in Karbala

Summary
The aim of the study is to identify the most common bacterial species that are responsible for sepsis in heart failure patients, study their relationship with risk factors for heart failure and determine their antibiotic susceptibility pattern.
The study was done from October-2020 to May-2021 in the Heart Center in Hospital of Imam Hussain Medical City in Karbala. Ten ml of venous blood sample where taken from 71 heart failure patients after admission to the CCU and the same number for control. There are important procedure of blood culturing we have to fallow it, after that many analyses had been conducted such as CRP, BNP, Troponin, Lipid profile (TC, HDL, LDL and TG), Renal function tests (Urea Creatinine), General parameters (Age, Weight, Gender), Physiological Parameters (ABO, CBC, Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure and Glucose), Microbiological tests (Bacterial Identification and Antibiotics Susceptibility Tests) and Nanotechnology study (XRD, FTIR, AFM, SEM and the inhibitory efficacy of Free-Meropenem and Nano-Meropenem.