Akiz Uddin Ahmed, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Md. Samiullah, Nahim Adnan et al.
Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Refaya Tasnim, Shadman Shabab Hassan, Abed Hussain Khan et al.
Objectives: In 2022, Bangladesh had the highest dengue-related fatality (281). This study evaluated clinical profiles to detect early changes to predict dengue fever severity. Methods: day of illness were recruited if they had a confirmed dengue viral infection either by by positive dengue nonstruct...
Sadia Islam, Md Nazmul Hasan, Sumiya B Kalam, Md Shahnoor Islam et al.
Background Bangladesh saw its most severe dengue outbreak in 2019, with the highest number of deaths reported. This study investigated the clinical characteristics, severity spectrum, and potential outcomes of dengue in patients admitted to a tertiary care institution in Dhaka. Methods This prospect...
Rafee Talukder, Md Jamal Uddin, M Battacharjee, Halida H. Akhter et al.
Stroke is leading cause of death world wide, after coronary artery disease and cancer. A high proportion of patients suffering from an acute stress such as stroke or myocardial infarction may develop hyperglycemia, even in the absence of a preexisting diagnosis of diabetes. An observational comparat...
Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Hasan M Rashed, Abed Hussain Khan, Lovely Barai et al.
Mucormycosis is a fatal invasive illness most frequently seen in immunocompromised hosts with uncontrolled diabetes, hematological malignancies, organ transplantation, or long-term steroid treatment. It has a poorer outcome than other fungal diseases due to its rapid spread and resistance to antifun...
Shohael Mahmud Arafat, Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Sudip Kumar Banik, Refaya Tasnim et al.
• Tuberculosis (TB) can mimic wide varieties of clinical presentations. • Extrapulmonary TB often misdiagnosed with other disease. • Esophageal TB, multifical osteoarticular TB mimic malignancy. • TB induced gullain barrie syndrome is rare. • Acute monoarthritis, metastatic skin abcess can mimic sep...
Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Shadman Shabab Hassan, Abed Hussain Khan, Md Nazmul Hasan et al.
In Bangladesh, tuberculosis and leprosy are endemic mycobacterial diseases; however, co-infection is rarely seen. Our patient had a high-grade fever, symmetrical polyarthritis, polymorphous erythematous lesions, widespread lymphadenopathy, peripheral neuropathy, bilaterally thickened ulnar nerves, a...
Md Nazmul Hasan, Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Md Rasul Amin, Abed Hussain Khan et al.
Autoimmune hemolytic anaemia (AIHA) can be caused by many diseases like connective tissue disease, lymphoproliferative disorder, certain infections and various medications. The coronavirus disease 19(COVID-19) can cause an increased risk of thrombosis. But, the association of AIHA with COVID-19 is n...
Sumaiya Farah Marisa, Nikhat Shahla Afsar, Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Md. Imrul Hasan et al.
Background A major global health problem is dengue illness, which is rising in Bangladesh between 2019 and 2023. Dengue infections can present with a wide range of symptoms, from fever to severe organ involvement like myocarditis. In this retrospective analysis, risk factors, clinic-laboratory profi...
Md. Abdul Matin, Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Md Ashraful Hassan Anjan, Hasan M Rashed et al.
BACKGROUND: A reliable marker of COVID-19 past infection is the anti-spike IgG antibody (Ab) titer of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which may be identified even one year from diagnosis. Serology can be effective in diagnosing asymptomatic infection and patients with negative reverse transcription polymerase...
Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Khan Fariduddin Mohammad Ayaz, Sumaiya Farah Marisa, Anika Tabassum et al.
• Dengue encephalitis can lead to fatal brain herniation and rapid decline. • Central diabetes insipidus may signal hypothalamic-pituitary axis damage. • MRI findings aid early recognition of neuroinvasive dengue. Dengue virus infection is a globally prevalent arboviral illness with a wide clinical ...
Nikhat Shahla Afsar, Sumaiya Farah Marisa, Sayat Quayum Mohona, S.M. Ashraf et al.
Introduction: Typhoid fever, leading to systemic disease due to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi, typically has gastrointestinal manifestation, however, neurologic complications-although uncommon, can arise. Aseptic meningitis and optic neuritis are rare manifestations that can be challenging to d...
Md Ashraful Hassan Anjan, Quazi Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, Abdullah Al Masum, Chowdhury Adnan Sami et al.
Background Early risk stratification of COVID-19 may yield a better prognosis by tailoring effective treatment strategies. Recent studies have identified that elevated carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) has prognostic value in terms of disease severity and mortality in patients with pneumonia. This stud...
Sudip Kumar Banik, Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Md Mizanur Rahman Khan, Shohael Mahmud Arafat et al.
A 19-year-old non-diabetic, non-HIV male presented with eighteen months of fever, weight loss, skin rash and lymphadenopathy. He was treated with anti-tubercular medication for more than twelve months in multiple institutions based on repeated biopsy reports of lymph nodes showing granuloma suggesti...
Afzalunnessa Binte Lutfor, Fauzia Jahan, Tosaddeque Hossain Siddiqui, Kona Chowdhury et al.
Introduction: Lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic had an appreciable impact on the education of all medical, dental and non-medical healthcare professional students. These included the closure of universities necessitating a rapid move to e-learning and a new practical approach to...
Abed Hussain Khan, Mohammad Ferdous Ur Rahaman, Sadia Rahman, Md Mizanur Rahman Khan et al.
Castleman disease (CD), a heterogenous lymphoproliferative disorder resulting from immune dysregulation, is a very rare disease in clinical practice. The clinical spectrum of Castleman disease is wide and its treatment options are mostly based on case reports and case series. To date, two clinical a...
Md Nazmul Hasan, Adrita Afzal, Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury et al.
Fever, sore throat, cough, and shortness of breath are the characteristic clinical manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As the epidemic spreads, it is evident that the infection can affect not only the lungs but also other organs. By attaching to the angiotensin-converting enzyme-2...
Shohael Mahmud Arafat, Akm Habibullah Bahar, Mihir Kanti Adhikari, Abed Hussain Khan et al.
Shohael Mahmud Arafat, Akm Habibullah Bahar, Mihir Kanti Adhikari, Abed Hussain Khan et al.
Shohael Mahmud Arafat, Chowdhury Adnan Sami, Abed Hussain Khan, Sudip Kumar Banik et al.
Background: Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infective endocarditis (NTM-IE) is an uncommon but increasingly recognised aetiology of culture-negative endocarditis, particularly in the context of healthcare exposure. Rapidly growing NTM species present significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges d...