A Health Journal
Health science is transformative. The modifications in evidence-based protocols are synchronous to the inventions in therapies. When the world was in the grip of Covid 19, the messenger RNA vaccines, a novel formula, halted the spread and brought us out of the pandemic. Along with the vaccines, newer protocols were authorized for emergency use on moderate to high-risk patients needing critical care. CytoSorb use was one of them. Developed by CytoSorbents Corporation in the US, CytoSorb therapy received FDA Emergency Use Authorization in April 2020. It is an extracorporeal blood purification therapy given to critical care patients which modifies the host inflammatory response by removing the inflammatory chemical mediators responsible for the cytokine storm. The unprecedented Dengue outbreak in Bangladesh in 2023 caused the highest number of cases as well as casualties till date. Medical practitioners were forced to break the conventional therapies and seek newer options. CytoSorb therapy was applied successfully, and a specific case is discussed in this issue where a patient was revived by this therapy from dengue shock syndrome with multiple organ failure in a hospital in Bangladesh. It is a wonder how physicians across borders utilize their expertise to apply the same treatment for a different disease simulating similar symptoms.
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By – 19 May 2024
Health science is transformative. The modifications in evidence-based protocols are synchronous to the inventions in therapies. When the world was in the grip of Covid 19, the messenger RNA vaccines,…
Learn MoreUse of CytoSorb in Treating Dengue Shock Syndrome with Type One Respiratory Failure
By Dr. Mohammad Jhahidul Alam Zico, Dr. Showkat Azad – 20 May 2024
This case report is on a 13-year-old male patient who was referred from a peripheral hospital with the diagnosis of Dengue fever and multiple organ failure. The CytoSorb therapy utilizes…
Learn MoreTaj Mahal Liver Resection for High-level Bile Duct Injury: A First Case Report in Bangladesh
By Prof. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Das, Dr. Anupam Debnath, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anindita Dutta – 21 May 2024
Abstract Resection of stricture part and reconstruction in very high-level bile duct injury is challenging work. Taj Mahal liver resection provides a good space to dissect out the first or…
Learn MoreAn Overview of Precision Medicine
By Dr. Maliha Mannan Ahmed – 21 May 2024
Personalized or precision medicine are tailor-made individualized therapies that are becoming increasingly popular to treat or prevent diseases based on a person’s genomic variability.1 The rapid inventions in precision medicine…
Learn MoreAcid-Base Equilibrium: Investigating the Influence of Diet and Alkaline Water on the Body
By Professor Syed Mahbubul Alam, Dr. Faisal Chowdhury – 22 May 2024
An Overview of Acid-base Equilibrium The many systems that make up the human body delicately maintain the bodily functions. This balance is achieved through the process of homeostasis. In essence,…
Learn MoreConservative Management of Mild Symptomatic Descending Thoracic Aneurysm – A case report with Review
By Dr. Golam Mahfuz Rabbani, Prof. Dr Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar – 23 May 2024
Abstract Background: The thoracic aorta is made up of the ascending, descending, aortic arch, and aortic root. An aneurysm in the aorta is a ballooned part in the artery that…
Learn MoreAnticoagulant in Acute Ischemic Stroke with Atrial Fibrillation: A Short Review
By Dr. S K Jakaria Been Sayeed, Dr. Abu Nayeem – 23 May 2024
Background Stroke is a leading global burden worldwide and is currently the second and third most common cause of mortality and disability, respectively. According to the American Stroke Association, one…
Learn MoreSmart Vaccination by Digital Vaccine Record
By Dr. Maliha Mannan Ahmed – 23 May 2024
The Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) is considered the most successful public health initiative globally. It was introduced in Bangladesh in 1979 with six vaccines against six preventable communicable diseases.…
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