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Among 680 patients of degenerative disc diseases; 32 cases (4.7%) had CES, those presenting late in course of disease. Time interval between bladder and bowel dysfunction and admission to hospital varied from 2-64 days with mean delay of 15.4 days. The average follow-up was 22.6 months, ranging from 12 to 34 months. There was significant positive correlation (p less then 0.05) between duration taken for total recovery and delay in surgery and between delayed decompression and a poor outcome. Also there was a clear correlation between the presence of complete perineal anaesthesia and absence of anal wink as both univariate and multivariate predictors of a poor outcome. There was significant association between a slower onset of CES and a favourable outcome. There was no significant correlation found between initial motor function loss, bilateral sciatica and level of the lesions as predictors of a poor outcome.Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. Genetic factors play an important role in this disease. Among the non-genetic causes cholesterol level is one of the risk factors. The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between ICH (Intracerebral hemorrhage) and cholesterol level as well as to find out the risk of total cholesterol (TC), Triglyceride (TG), High-density lipoprotein (HDL) and Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) for the disease. This was a case-control retrospective study with 60 cases and 60 controls. The study place was in the Neurosurgery department of Sylhet Women's Medical College Hospital and the study period was 2 years (from January 2020 to December 2021). The mean age ±SD of the cases was 57.08±9.47 years and the highest number of participants was in the 51-60 year group. Commonest location of ICH was deep (67.0%) followed by intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) (28.3%) and lobar (5.0%). The means of TC (p=0.0004), TG (p=0.00013) and LDL (p less then 0.00001) were significantly lower than those of control group. The mean of HDL (36.48) of cases was significantly (p=0.00003) higher than the mean HDL (28.9) of controls. TC participants had 52.0% less risk to develop ICH. Raised TG had 46.0% and raised LDL had 52.0% lower risk of ICH.It was previously reported that coronavirus caused myocardial injury in hospitalized patients. However, delayed cardiac involvement in symptomatic patient recovery from COVID-19 is not yet well known. The objective of this study was to evaluate cardiac involvement by using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in symptomatic post-COVID-19 recovered patients. Thirty (30) patients who recovered from COVID-19 and had recently reported cardiac symptoms were studied in a prospective observational study performed at Popular Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh from March 2021 to September 2021. They underwent CMR examinations. CMR scanning protocol included the following black blood, cine sequence, both short-axis and long-axis, T2-weight short tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequence, T2- weighted imaging (T2WI) and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and quantitative mapping sequences-native T1/T2 mapping and post-contrast T1 mapping. Myocardial edema and late gadolinium enhancement were assessed in all patients. Qd with negative CMR findings patients, EF, 32.05 (IQR 25.25-39.0) versus 54.5 (IQR 52.0-57.75) and EDV, 117.5 (IQR 102.0-134.25) versus 95.0 (IQR 71.75-99.75), p less then 0.001 and p less then 0.001 respectively. In this study cardiac involvement was found in the post-COVID-19 recovered patient with cardiac symptoms. Cardiac MRI findings included myocardial edema, fibrosis and reduced right ventricular function. So attention should be paid to symptomatic post-COVID-19 recovered patients.Globally, the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an increasing problem that adversely affects patient care and public health. This cross sectional descriptive study was carried out in the Department of Microbiology, Mymensingh Medical College from January 2010 to December 2010 to isolate M. tuberculosis from smear-positive sputum samples by Lowenstein-Jensen (L-J) media and investigate the drug resistance pattern. Among 101 smear-positive cases 80(79.20%) yielded growth of Mycobacteria, 5(4.95%) were contaminated and 16(15.84%) showed no growth. Among 80 isolates 76(95.0%) were M. tuberculosis and the remaining 4(5.0%) were Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM). Out of 76 M. tuberculosis 27(35.52%) were resistant to at least one drug, 4(5.26%) to Isoniazid (INH), 1(1.32%) to Rifampicin (RMP), 8(10.53%) to Streptomycin (SM) and 0(0.0%) to Ethambutol (EMB) and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was 9(11.84%). The present study creates the impression that fairly high rate of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance among the tuberculosis cases and also high MDR-TB (Resistant to both Rifampicin and Isoniazide). The emergence of MDR-TB poses significant trouble to TB control activities throughout the world. The complexity of MDR-TB operation makes it essential to produce new skills to design, plan, application and monitor interventions for the management of MDR-TB. More surveillance and immediate remedial interventions should be performed to combat the trouble of MDR-TB to the general population.There is a knowledge gap about the rehabilitation system for the persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). A rehabilitation scenario is necessary to conduct a national community survey in conjunction with the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey (InSCI) in order to gather data on the lived experiences of people with SCI, to map out the health and rehabilitation system of Bangladesh, it's demographic characteristics, accessible resources and rehabilitation challenges. Information for this narrative report was acquired through a structured questionnaire, which was supplemented by an online search of agencies, government websites, rehabilitation-related organizations and published papers during the period of March 2020 to April 2021. Bangladesh is a developing country with a vast population and a developing health care system. Representative government and non-government rehabilitative care settings a total of sixteen survey replies (n=16) were obtained. During the year 2019, a total of 1035 people witng triage, a referral system development, infrastructure and shortage of expert human resources in addition, currently there is no three-tier rehabilitation care continuum available. Keeping pace with the transition to a developed country by 2041, the Bangladesh health sector also has to be oriented to face the focused challenge of caring for people with SCI. As recommended by WHO Rehabilitation 2030 initiatives, establishment of an SCI dedicated national institute and escalation of number of related specialists such as trauma and orthopedic surgery, spinal neurosurgery and physical rehabilitation medicine, skilled professionals such as rehabilitation nurses, therapists, case managers and social workers to work in a team required for specialized care of SCI.Hyperthyroidism is one of the major complications in CKD patients who results in a number of metabolic disorders and contributes to morbidity and mortality. The objective of the study was to investigate the prevalence and risk factors for secondary hyperparathyroidism among CKD patients as well as its correlation with different laboratory parameters. This was a cross-sectional study conducted among the admitted CKD patients of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, Sylhet, Bangladesh from January 2019 to December 2019. Following recruitment, clinical parameters were extracted from the patients' medical records. Afterward, blood sample blood was collected to measure the biochemical parameters and serum parathyroid hormone levels. A binary logistic regression model was used to assess the factors associated with hyperparathyroidism. The mean±SD serum PTH in all CKD patients was 215.04±168.15 pg/ml. The overall prevalence of secondary hyperparathyroidism among CKD patients was 75.0% (32.0% in stage 3, 88.0% in stage 4 and 93.0% in stage 5 CKD). Serum PTH levels had a significant positive correlation with serum creatinine and serum phosphate levels and a significant negative correlation with serum albumin and serum calcium levels. However, only female sex was revealed as a significant risk factor in the adjusted regression model (aOR 0.26, 95% CI 0.07-0.98 for male sex compared to female sex). As the prevalence of secondary hyperparathyroidism increases in advanced stages of CKD, early detection and management of CKD are crucial to prevent metabolic disorders that could trigger the development of this complication.A cross sectional study was conducted in Paediatric Endocrine Outpatient Department of BIRDEM General Hospital, a tertiary care centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh among patients diagnosed with acquired hypothyroidism during the period of January 2012 to December 2016. The study was done to find out the clinical presentations and associated disorders of all patients diagnosed with acquired hypothyroidism during the study period. Data were obtained by reviewing the medical records of the patients. Total 277 children were diagnosed of having thyroid disorders. Among them 145(52.3%) had acquired hypothyroidism. The commonest clinical presentations of children with acquired hypothyroidism were short stature (35.0%), excessive weight gain (31.5%), goiter (23.1%) and poor school performance (14.0%). Protein Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor Autoimmune hypothyroidism was found in 34.4% of children, sub-clinical hypothyroidism in 27.5% children and positive family history was found in 15.2% children with acquired hypothyroidism. The common associated diseases were diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance (4.9%), Down syndrome (3.5%), congenital heart disease (2.1%) and primary adrenal insufficiency (1.4%).Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer disease. The pathogenesis of PD is yet unknown. Aim of this study was to analyze the clinical profile of patient with early Parkinson disease. A total of seventy-six early Parkinson's disease patients were enrolled in this cross-sectional observational study which was carried out in the Department of Neurology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh from September 2014 to March 2016. Analysis of the history and clinical findings were done among these patients. This study was performed with 76 early Parkinson disease patients. Among them, male and female were 69.7% and 30.3% respectively. The mean±SD age of patients was 53.25±11.53 years with an age range of 24 to 77 years. The patients were found in primary level accounted for 42.1% which was followed by secondary 19.7% and illiterate or non-formal education 17.1%. Only 5.3% study population was found in post-graduate. Occupant as 28.9% were service holder, 26.3% as a housewife, 1.3% as business and 43.5% other occupations. Regarding smoking, 28.9% was a current smoker, 59.2% non-smoker and 11.8% ex-smoker. Of them, 11.8% had a family history of Parkinson's disease. Of the total population, 30.3% had dyslipidemia, 21.1% had hypertension, and 7.9% had diabetes mellitus. Males are predominant in affecting this disease. Middle aged people are vulnerable to it. Parkinson's disease is common in nonsmoker and dyslipidaemia. Few patient had family history of Parkinson's disease.