Mustaque Ahmed, Huque Mahfuz, Mohammed Mosleh Uddin, Md. Mostafil Karim Prenatal diagnosis (PND) is done to detect thalassaemia at 9th to 10th week of foetus. It is done by chorionic villus sampling by amniocentesis. PCR amplifies DNA. Termination of pregnancy … Continue reading →
Shahnoor Islam Splenectomy is indicated in the transfusion-dependent thalassaemia patient when increased blood transfusion requirement that prevents adequate control with iron chelation therapy, hypersplenism, symptomatic splenomegaly. Annual transfusion volume exceeding 225 to 250 mL/kg/year with packed red blood cells may … Continue reading →
Showrab Biswas, Md. Salahuddin Shah, Md. Abdul Aziz, Md Rafiquzzaman Khan, Masuda Begum, Fatima Begum, Surozit Kumar Sarkar, Saqi Md. Abdul Baqi Background: Thalassaemia causes a lot of complications. Among them low bone mineral density represents a major cause of … Continue reading →
M. Morsed Zaman Miah Automated reticulocyte counts are widely used in the clinical laboratory due to their greater precision, accuracy and reproducibility compared to those obtained using the microscope. Automated methods employ a wide variety of reagents for reticulocyte RNA … Continue reading →
Farida Parvin, Bepasha Naznin, Tamanna Afroz, Tashmim Farhana Dipta, Salma Afrose Background: Plateletpheresis is the process in which healthy donor blood is passed through an apparatus that separates out platelets and returns the remainders to the circulation. As the demand … Continue reading →
Tashmim Farhana Dipta, Amin Lutful Kabir, Mohammed Abdul Quader, Manjuma Rahman, Farida Parvin, Masuda Begum, Ayesha Khatun, Jolly Biswas, Salma Afrose To our knowledge, this is the first reported case from Bangladesh of a 27-year-old-young man having ‘E-Beta thalassaemia’ along … Continue reading →
Mamun Al Mahtab, Md. Abdur Rahim, Sheikh Mohammad Noor-E-Alam, Ashraful Alam, Faiz Ahmad Khondokar, Ahmed Lutful Moben Introduction: Decompensated cirrhosis of liver is associated with decreased amounts of functional hepatocytes leading to compromised quality of life and increased mortality; Liver … Continue reading →
Dilshad Jahan Graft failure is a significant complication following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (AHCT). It may be due to rejection caused by recipient T-cells, NK-cells or antibodies. It is increased in HLA-mismatched grafts, unrelated grafts, T-cell replete transplants, sensitized patients … Continue reading →
Abu Jafar Mohammed Saleh Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a lifesaving, costly, and multistep procedure. It took more than 50 years from the first published attempt in 1957 to arrive at one million transplants by 2012 and currently more … Continue reading →
Mizanur Rahman, Rummana Rahim, Abu Hasan Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare stem cell disorder caused by acquired mutation in the X-linked phosphatidylinositol glycan complementation class A gene. The acquired mutation generates a defect in the expression of glycol-phosphatidyl … Continue reading →
