ABM Shahidul Alam, S Anwar Sadat, Zakaria Swapan, Aftab U Ahmed et al.
Background: Dengue infection has become endemic in Bangladesh since it hasbeen broken out in June 2000. Although children are the usual victim of dengueinfection, there is paucity of published data regarding dengue infection in children inour country.Objectives: This study was designed to document t...
S C Hazra, AM Choudhury, A. T. M. Asaduzzaman, Harasit Kumar Paul
The objectives of this study were to compare the adverse outcome of methotrexate and mini pulse betamethasone therapy in the treatment of lichen planus. It was a clinical trial conducted in the department of Dermatology and Venereology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, from Januar...
Z Ahmed, R L Banik, Harasit Kumar Paul, Q H Jaigirdar et al.
Alopecia areata is a common disorder affecting any of the hair bearing areas of the body. Most of the cases are diagnosed on the clinical ground only. Histopathological changes may help in the diagnosis in difficult cases. The present study was designed to observe the histopathologic changes of alop...
ASM Zakaria, Harasit Kumar Paul, Mohammed Atiqur Rahman, Mohammad Tariqul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Tazarotene is a new 3rd generation topical acetylenic retinoid. It normalizes keratinocyte differentiation, reduces keratinocyte proliferation and decreases expression of inflammatory markers. Tazarotene was approved by U.S.F.D.A. in 1997 for acne vulgaris. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the ef...
TAK Mahmud, Harasit Kumar Paul, ASM Zakaria, Mohammed Atiqur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis continues to be a health problem in many countries. There may be simultaneous multiple organ involvement. Diagnosis of one organ disease may lead to missing off diagnosis of other organ involvement. OBJECTIVES: The present study was done to analyze the association of cutaneo...
Begum Bodrun Sultana, Harasit Kumar Paul
Background Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a common hair loss disorder affecting both men and women. Despite multiple therapeutic options, treatment of AGA remains unsatisfactory. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an autologous concentrate of plasma with a greater count of platelets than that of whole bl...
Nandita Ghosh, Tabassum Nasrin, Hasan Mahmud, Harasit Kumar Paul
Background Hand eczema is often a chronic, multifactorial disease which has enormous socioeconomic consequences and a massive impact on patients' quality of life. Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of low-dose oral methotrexate in patients of chronic hand eczema. Materials and Method This r...
Fatema Khatun, Zakir Ahmed, Harasit Kumar Paul, Zinat Amin et al.
<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory, systemic disease. In response to therapy in psoriasis patients, the psoriasis area severity index (PASI) is used to evaluate the disease activity. However more objective laboratory tools should b...
Md-Billal Hossain, Md. Rafiqul Alam, Harasit Kumar Paul, Sunil Kumar Biswas et al.
Pleural effusion is a common clinical problem with different possible causes. It can be due to local, systemic, infectious or non-infectious causes. Aetiological diagnosis is important for proper treatment. To evaluate the aetiological diagnosis of pleural effusion of hospitalized adult patients thi...
Mst. Sayedatun Nessa, Nurul AKMN Kabir, Ashim Ranjan Barua, Harasit Kumar Paul
Background: Since the outer root sheath of hair follicle is structurally analogous to epidermal keratinocytes, direct immunofluorescence of hair may be an alternate method for monitoring disease activity of pemphigus vulgaris. Our objective was to find the effectiveness of direct immunofluorescence ...
Kazi Golum Kibria, Muhammad Rafiqul Alam, Harasit Kumar Paul, M Fariduddin et al.
Background: An association between thyroid dysfunction and dyslipidemia prevails. Levels of total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides tend to increase as thyroid function declines.Objective: To find out the pattern of dyslipidemia in hypothyroid patients. Methods: Sixty c...
N Akhtar, Mst. Mamtaz Begum, A A Saleh, Harasit Kumar Paul et al.
Sporotrichosis, a deep fungal infection caused by Sporothrix schenckii, is a rare disease. Infection acquired by traumatic implantation of fungus to the skin. Our patient a 40 years old woman presented with multiple erythematous, ulcerated, crusted nodules of different size and shape situated over t...
Zilan Miah Sarker, A. Mahmud, Ajmain Chowdhury, Mohammad Abul Hasnat et al.
A 74-year-old man complained of abnormal fatigue, night sweats, and unintended weight loss of 4 kg over the past month. A thoracentesis of his extensive rightsided pleural effusion showed an exudate with a leukocyte count of 2400/μL, 96% of which were mononuclear cells. No pathogen was detected unde...
Yasmin Ara Zaman, Shourav Dutta, Swarna Tribedi, A. T. M. Asaduzzaman et al.
This article has no abstract. The first 100 words appear below: A 15-year-old boy 4th issue of a non-consanguineous parents presented with a history of multiple plaques and patches on the scalp, trunk, upper and lower extremities since birth. Initially, the plaques and patches were smaller in sizes,...
Sunil Kumar Biswas, Tonmoy Biswas, Noornabi Khondoker, Md. Rafiqul Alam et al.
Evans syndrome, a combined clinical condition of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AHA) and idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura (ITP) and has non-specific pathogenesis. The clinical cases are extremely rare, since only 4% of AHA or ITP are incorporated with Evans. It is distinguished from differential...
Md Shafiqul Islam, Harasit Kumar Paul
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Tasnuva Ashraf, Harasit Kumar Paul, Md. Shahidullah Sikder, A. S. M. Zakaria et al.
This randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted to assess the efficacy and safety of intralesional triamcinolone acetonide in the treatment of chronic hand eczema comparing with topical clobetasol propionate. A total 60 patients of chronic hand eczema were recruited in the study. Thirty pati...