Octavian C. Ioachimescu, S. M. Sieber, Arthur Kotch
Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis is a rare cause of diffuse alveolar haemorrhage of unknown aetiology. It occurs most frequently in children, has a variable natural history with repetitive episodes of diffuse alveolar haemorrhage, and has been reported to have a high mortality. Many patients deve...
Michael Kreuter, Markus Polke, Simon Walsh, Johannes Krisam et al.
Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (AE-IPF) is an often deadly complication of IPF. No focussed international guidelines for the management of AE-IPF exist. The aim of this international survey was to assess the global variability in prevention, diagnostic and treatment strategies f...
Ylva Kaiser, Coline van Moorsel, Johan Grünewald, Bekir Karakaya
Abstract Löfgren's syndrome (LS), first described in 1946 by Swedish Professor of Medicine Sven Löfgren, is a clinically distinct phenotype of sarcoidosis. Patients typically experience an acute disease onset, usually with fever, and characteristic symptoms of bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, erythe...
Zahedur Rahman, Ziaul Ahsan, Niaz Abdur Rahman, Parthopratim Dutta Majumder
PURPOSE: To report the pattern of uveitis in a tertiary eye care center in Bangladesh. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of all uveitis cases visiting uveitis clinic of Bangladesh Eye Hospital between January, 2009 and April, 2015. RESULTS: In total, 652 patients (mean age 32.3 years, female 47.8%) we...
Andrew Rosenbaum, Brooks S. Edwards
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We describe the general strategies for the management of cardiac amyloidosis with particular focus on the use of cardiac transplantation for amyloid cardiomyopathy. Within this article, we highlight recent data regarding the use of combined heart transplant-chemotherapy, use of ca...
Shyam Sundar, Krishna Murari Pandey, Dinesh Mondal, Major Madhukar et al.
BACKGROUND: In Southeast Asia, treatment is recommended for all patients with post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). Adherence to the first-line regimen, twelve weeks of miltefosine (MF), is low and ocular toxicity has been observed with this exposure period. We assessed the safety and efficacy...
Md. Adnanul Alam, Mushfiq Newaz Ahmed, Abed Hussain Khan, Shohael Mahmud Arafat
Cutaneous tuberculosis (CTB), a rare manifestation of tuberculosis is one of the most challenging diagnoses to establish. Metastasic tuberculous abscess is a form of CTB which is characterized by cold abscesses on the patient's extremities or trunk without any involvement of underlying tissue. Here ...
Mst. Rupali Yasmin, Md. Nazrul Islam, Zahedur Rahman Pannu, Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad et al.
AIM: To determine the prevalence and risk factors for uveitis in spondyloarthritis (SpA) patients. METHODS: A total of 225 patients who fulfilled Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society classification criteria for axial and peripheral SpA were enrolled. The diagnosis of uveitis was con...
Abdul Momen, Farhana Khan, Sadia Saber, Amrin Sultana et al.
The year 2020 has been plagued by the COVID‑19 pandemic that has resulted in an additional 1,800,000 deaths worldwide. Many patients who recover from Covid-19 later present with shortness of breath and fibrosis of the lungs, while some take a long time to recover from the initial infection. A drug s...
Md Anik Ashfaq Khan, Rajashree Chowdhury, Rupen Nath, Sören Hansen et al.
BACKGROUND: The main clinical forms of leishmaniasis in Bangladesh are visceral leishmaniasis and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis, which are caused by Leishmania donovani. Imported cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is emerging globally due mainly to increased human mobility. In recent years, several ...
Jesús Romero-Imbroda, Teresa Sagrario-Fustero, Clementina Del Canto-Pérez
Transthyretin (TTR) familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is an autonomic and peripheral sensorimotor autosomal dominant hereditary neuropathy that produces progressive disability and shortened life expectancy. Tetramer dissociation of TTR in monomers is the limiting step in the pathogenesis of TTR-...
Biplab Pal, Tambe Daniel Atem, Sweta Kumari, Krishna Murti et al.
OBJECTIVE: Miltefosine stands as the sole oral medication approved for the treatment of leishmaniasis. The appearance of severe ophthalmic toxicities induced by miltefosine in the context of leishmaniasis treatment is a matter of significant concern. The main objective of this study is to present a ...
Robina K Coker, Kathy Cullen
• Sarcoidosis is a diagnosis of exclusion; tissue diagnosis should be sought wherever possible before starting treatment • Erythema nodosum does not usually require corticosteroid treatment • Sarcoidosis should be considered in patients presenting with cardiac arrhythmias; specialist cardiology advi...
Md Rockyb Hasan, Md Sakibuzzaman, Tahsin Tabassum, Syed Ahmad Moosa
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, Wegener's granulomatosis) presenting as rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is not uncommon. The recognition of multisystem disease involving joints, kidney, and lung is critical for diagnosing Wegener's vasculitis. Here, we report a case study of a 52-year-...
David Yen, Douglas Hedden
J. S. Oh, Soeun Kim, Yesol Yim, Min Seo Kim et al.
Chronic respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, pneumoconiosis, interstitial lung disease (ILD) and pulmonary sarcoidosis, are major global causes of mortality and morbidity. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced acute respiratory health, its imp...
Rajashish Chakrabortty, Samia Rahman, Rawnak Jahan, Abir Hasan Dip et al.
Pulmonary fibrosis is becoming a recognized complication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Patients with pulmonary fibrosis may present with dry cough, shortness of breath, nail clubbing, low oxygen saturation. We report a case of a 40-year-old male patient with pulmonary fibrosis due to COVID...
Ramadan Abdelmoez Farahat, Abubakar Nazir, Sidhant Ochani, Sheharyar Hassan Khan et al.
© The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, p...
Md. Roman Mogal, Sagarika Adhikary Sompa, Asadullah Junayed, Md. Rashel Mahmod et al.
The pandemic situation of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global threat on our current planet, with its rapid spread and high mortality rate. Sarcoidosis patients are at high risk to COVID-19 severity for having lung injuries as well as treating with immunosuppressive agents. So, phys...
Junaid Nabi
Tuberculosis is endemic in Bangladesh. It remains a resilient public health concern. Reports on presentation and management of intracranial tuberculoma from Bangladesh are sparse. Despite being potentially remediable, tuberculomas are still a cause of significant morbidity and mortality in developin...