Shireen Afroz, Anwar Hossain Khan, Dilip Kumar Roy
This study was done to find out the thyroid function of nephrotic children during nephrosis and to compare any significant changes of thyroid function status during nephrosis and remission. This is an observational study with prospective follow up of study subjects. It was carried out over a period ...
Shireen Akther, Afroza Sultana, Md. Rahim Badsha, Md. Mokhlesur Rahman et al.
This study aimed to determine the effects of different drying methods on the physicochemical properties of mango powders (Amropali cultivar) and its reconstituted products. Six types of drying methods were employed, which were spray drying (SD), cabinet drying (CD), vacuum drying (VD), tunnel drying...
Ferdusee Akter, Shireen Akther, Afroza Sultana, Md. Motiur Rahman et al.
An optimum condition of the drying process can minimize nutrient losses and maximize the shelf life of food products. Thus, this study is aimed at developing an optimized system for the process conditions to determine the total phenolic content (TPC) of oven-dried papaya slices. The response surface...
Md Abdul Qader, Golam Muin Uddin, Habibur Rahman, Mohammed Hanif et al.
Introduction: Renal diseases in children can be congenital or acquired. In Bangladesh, pediatric nephrology care is available for last 2 decades, but there was no epidemiological study to see the pattern of renal diseases in children of the country. So, this study was carried out to observe the patt...
Shireen Afroz, Maliha Alam Simi, Shanjida Sharmim, Rokeya Khanum et al.
Background: Acute Kidney Failure (AKF) is the acute loss of kidney function over hours or days, the aetiology of which varies in different countries.Objectives: The study was aimed to find out the aetiology and see the immediate outcome of AKF in children in a tertiary level teaching hospital in Ban...
Hosneara Akter, Atikur Rahaman, Tamannyat Binte Eshaque, Nesrin Mohamed et al.
PURPOSE: The genetic underpinning of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in diverse ethnic populations, especially those with high rates of consanguinity, remains largely unexplored. Here, we aim to elucidate genomic insight from 576 well-phenotyped and highly consanguineous (16%) NDD cohort. METHOD...
Tarannum Khondaker, Md Abdul Qader, Kinkar Gosh, Gulshan Nigar Chowdhury et al.
Background and Aim: Despite several studies about COVID-19, many factors remain unknown. Apart from pulmonary involvement, the other systemic association needs to be explored. Since information is lacking this study was conducted to see the impact of COVID-19 infection in children with kidney diseas...
Shireen Afroz, Dilip Kumar Roy, Anwar Hossain Khan
Low serum level of IgG, complement C3 and C4 in nephrotic syndrome children may cause increased susceptibility to infection. Serum level of IgG and complements in nephrotic children (NS) with UTI has been analyzed in this cross sectional study. It was carried out in the department of Pediatric nephr...
Gulshan Nigar Chaudhury, Tarannum Khandaker, Tahmina Ferdous, Rifat Asma Chowdhury et al.
Background: High dose of corticosteroids are required by patients with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome for long duration due to repeated relapse. The aims of this study were to analyze the ocular and extra-ocular complications of steroids on children with nephrotic syndrome. Methods: This cross-sectio...
Shireen Afroz, Tahmina Ferdaus, Farhana Yasmin, Umme Tanjila et al.
Background: This prospective observational study was conducted to see the prevalence, etiology, clinical profile, and immediate outcome of community-acquired acute kidney injury (AKI) in a pediatric critical care nephrology setup in Bangladesh. Materials and Methods: The prevalence, etiology, outcom...
MR Badsha, Shireen Akther, Jakia Sultana Jothi, Afroza Sultana
The upward trend of consumption of processed food must not dim the demand of taking healthy and safe food among population. Thus, six popular commercial brands of instant mango drinks powder of Bangladesh were targeted to investigate some quality parameters (proximate compositions, mineral contents ...
Shireen Afroz, Tahmina Ferdous, Mohammed Hanif, Md Abid Hossain Mollah et al.
Background : The cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) in neonate is multifactorial. The short-term outcome of AKI in newborns is highly dependent on the underlying etiology, the condition of other organs, and the facilities for renal replacement therapy.Objective : The aims of the present study were t...
Probir Kumar Sarkar, Kinkar Ghosh, Nabila Akand, M. Kamruzzaman et al.
Background: The objective of the study was to delineate the clinico-epidemiological characteristics of pediatric coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients.Methods: This observational study included 290 pediatric patients with a definite diagnosis of COVID-19 admitted to Dhaka Shishu hospital, Ban...
Shireen Afroz, Tahmina Ferdaus, Farhana Yasmin, Umme Tanjila et al.
) >180 mEq/L. Depending on the outcome samples were divided into survival and death groups. Data were processed by software STATA 13 and analysis was done by one-way ANOVA, Tukey test, Chi-square test, F-test, and Student's t-test. Age ranged from one month to 6½ years and 91% were infants. Total 64...
Azmeri Sultana, Sharmin Afroze, Sheikh Farjana Sonia, Md Abdul Qader et al.
The prevalence of hypertension (HTN) among youngsters has increased recently. Often, it is underrecognized owing to a lack of routine blood pressure measurement in many health centers, partly due to the unavailability of instruments and possibly because of this perception that it is not the foremost...