Adequate ethical knowledge regarding communication, reasoning, and conflict resolution skills is a prerequisite of successful and good medical practice.1 Download PDF
Monthly Archives: October 2016
APRIL 2016; VOL 40, NO 1
Leading Article l Ethics in Medical Practice Mohammod Shahidullah Original Articles l Neurodevelopmental Assessment in Preterm Neonates at Early Ages: Screening of at-risk Infants for Long Term Sequlae Mirza Md. Ziaul Islam, M Monir Hossain, Sheikh Anisul Haque, Naila Zaman … Continue reading
Desmoplastic Soft Tissue Tumor- A Case Report
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT) is a rare highly aggressive malignancy, commonly presenting as a large intra-abdominal or pelvic mass in male children and young adults. Microscopically, the tumor is typically composed of discrete nests of primitive round cells … Continue reading
Glycogen Storage Disease Type III-Cori’s Disease: A Case Report and Review Literature
Glycogen-storage disease (GSD) type III (GSD III) is an autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism caused by loss of function mutations of the glycogen debranching enzyme (Amylo-1,6-glucosidase [AGL]) gene, which is located at chromosome band 1p21.2.1 GSD III is characterized … Continue reading
A Case of Neonatal Hypocalcaemia Due to Maternal Vitamin D Deficiency
Neonatal hypocalcaemia (NH) is a commonly reported metabolic abnormality in neonate. Ionized calcium is vital for various metabolic pathways like blood coagulation, neuronal depolarization, integrity of cell membrane, enzyme catalysis etc. Major part of the body calcium exists in bones … Continue reading
Surgical Resection of Left Atraial Myxoma in A Male Child – A Case Report
Primary heart tumor is uncommon in the pediatric population, with a reported incidence of 0.2%.1 Only 14.5% of all cardiac tumors occur in patients aged below16 years.2 Myxomas are primary benign tumors that occur in the chambers of the heart. … Continue reading
Pulse Oximetry Screening in newborn for early detection of Critical Congenital Heart Disease – A review
Approximately 9 of 1000 live births have congenital heart disease, of these ~25% have critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). Delayed or missed diagnosis of CCHD may result in acute cardiovascular collapse. Echocardiography is a necessary diagnostic tool but it’s cost … Continue reading
Establishing Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in a Low Resource Setting: Bangladesh Perspective and Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Model
Advances in technology and training in paediatric cardiology have improved longterm outcome and promised better quality of life. Bangladesh is facing multitude of health problems and congenital heart disease is one of them. With facilities for accurate diagnosis and scope … Continue reading
Osteopenia in Premature Infants and Effect of Supplementation
Background: Despite advances in antenatal and prenatal care, incidence of preterm labor is still high. Osteopenia of prematurity is one of the common accompaniments or complications of surviving preterm babies. Most of the time this problem remains hidden, so is … Continue reading
Efficacy of Tocilizumab in the Treatment of Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Background: Systemic JIA (sJIA) is the most severe sub type of JIA with limited treatment option and responsible for most of the disability and morbidity in JIA. Download PDF