Background: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is 9.7% in Bangladesh. Infants ... more Background: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is 9.7% in Bangladesh. Infants of diabetic mothers (IDM) have a significant chance to develop various complications including glucose instability. Objective: To find out the incidence of IDM among low birth weight (LBW) babies and their relation with blood glucose level during 1st 48 hours of life.
Background: Perinatal asphyxia, or more accurately, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), remain... more Background: Perinatal asphyxia, or more accurately, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), remains a devastating illness, producing considerable death and long-term morbidity despite great breakthroughs with sophisticated monitoring technologies and understanding of fetal and neonatal pathology. Objective: In this study our main goal is to evaluate the maternal risk factor for HIE progression in infants. Method: This case control study was conducted in the Department of the Paediatrics, Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College Hospital, Sylhet during the period from 1 st January 2014 to 30 th June 2014. Ninety-six normal birth weight term babies with HIE were selected as case; Ninety six sex and birth weight matched, term singleton baby without HIE born in Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College Hospital, Sylhet were taken as control. Results: Maternal age (<20 years) [15 (15.6%) versus 6 (6.2%); OR=3.165; 95% of CI=1.176-8.518; p=0.037]; maternal height (<145 cm) [37 (38.5%) ver...
Kasabach Merritt syndrome (KMS) is an uncommon complication of large haemangioma in which there i... more Kasabach Merritt syndrome (KMS) is an uncommon complication of large haemangioma in which there is thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy. We report a case of a new born male baby presented with a large haemangioma on the right upper extremity and his initial laboratory tests were consistent with consumptive coagulopathy. He was diagnosed as a case of KMS and treated with oral prednisolone. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjch.v36i2.13091 Bangladesh J Child Health 2012; Vol 36 (2): 105-107
is characterized by a rapidly developing hemangioma, thrombocytopenia, micro-angiopathic haemolyt... more is characterized by a rapidly developing hemangioma, thrombocytopenia, micro-angiopathic haemolytic anaemia and coagulopathy as a result of platelet and RBC trapping and activation of the clotting system within the vasculature of haemangioma 1. This phenomenon was first described in 1940 by Kasabach and Merritt who took care of an infant with a giant capillary hemangioma and thrombocytopenic purpura 1. It is a rare disorder that can affect the infants from the time of birth or may appear later in infancy as the vascular malformation grows. More than 80% cases occur within first year of life 2. Male and females are equally affected 1. Lesions are distinctive vascular tumors typically superficial and solitary but may involve internal structures that include tufted angiomas and Kaposiform haemangio-endothelioma 3. KMS can be lethal. The estimated mortality rate ranges from 10-37% 4. Mortality and morbidity are usually associated with visceral involvement, haemorrhage related to aggressive invasion, profound thrombocytopenia, DIC, severe infections and iatrogenic complications 4 .
Background: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is 9.7% in Bangladesh. Infants ... more Background: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is 9.7% in Bangladesh. Infants of diabetic mothers (IDM) have a significant chance to develop various complications including glucose instability. Objective: To find out the incidence of IDM among low birth weight (LBW) babies and their relation with blood glucose level during 1st 48 hours of life.
Background: Perinatal asphyxia, or more accurately, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), remain... more Background: Perinatal asphyxia, or more accurately, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), remains a devastating illness, producing considerable death and long-term morbidity despite great breakthroughs with sophisticated monitoring technologies and understanding of fetal and neonatal pathology. Objective: In this study our main goal is to evaluate the maternal risk factor for HIE progression in infants. Method: This case control study was conducted in the Department of the Paediatrics, Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College Hospital, Sylhet during the period from 1 st January 2014 to 30 th June 2014. Ninety-six normal birth weight term babies with HIE were selected as case; Ninety six sex and birth weight matched, term singleton baby without HIE born in Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College Hospital, Sylhet were taken as control. Results: Maternal age (<20 years) [15 (15.6%) versus 6 (6.2%); OR=3.165; 95% of CI=1.176-8.518; p=0.037]; maternal height (<145 cm) [37 (38.5%) ver...
Kasabach Merritt syndrome (KMS) is an uncommon complication of large haemangioma in which there i... more Kasabach Merritt syndrome (KMS) is an uncommon complication of large haemangioma in which there is thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy. We report a case of a new born male baby presented with a large haemangioma on the right upper extremity and his initial laboratory tests were consistent with consumptive coagulopathy. He was diagnosed as a case of KMS and treated with oral prednisolone. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjch.v36i2.13091 Bangladesh J Child Health 2012; Vol 36 (2): 105-107
is characterized by a rapidly developing hemangioma, thrombocytopenia, micro-angiopathic haemolyt... more is characterized by a rapidly developing hemangioma, thrombocytopenia, micro-angiopathic haemolytic anaemia and coagulopathy as a result of platelet and RBC trapping and activation of the clotting system within the vasculature of haemangioma 1. This phenomenon was first described in 1940 by Kasabach and Merritt who took care of an infant with a giant capillary hemangioma and thrombocytopenic purpura 1. It is a rare disorder that can affect the infants from the time of birth or may appear later in infancy as the vascular malformation grows. More than 80% cases occur within first year of life 2. Male and females are equally affected 1. Lesions are distinctive vascular tumors typically superficial and solitary but may involve internal structures that include tufted angiomas and Kaposiform haemangio-endothelioma 3. KMS can be lethal. The estimated mortality rate ranges from 10-37% 4. Mortality and morbidity are usually associated with visceral involvement, haemorrhage related to aggressive invasion, profound thrombocytopenia, DIC, severe infections and iatrogenic complications 4 .
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