Bilateral congenital choanal atresia in a preterm neonate - a rare neonatal emergency: A case report and review of literature.

Congenital choanal atresia results from the developmental failure of the nasal cavity to connect posteriorly with the nasopharynx. Although congenital choanal atresia is a well-recognized developmental disorder, it is an uncommon condition with an overall incidence of approximately 1 per 10,000 live births. The authors aim to highlight that in very preterm neonates, early diagnosis of bilateral congenital choanal atresia needs a high index of suspicion to avoid life-threatening events.

Vitamin-D Status and Clinical Outcomes in Critically Ill Children.

Aims And Background: To study if 25-hydroxy cholecalciferol levels correlate with clinical outcomes in a cohort of critically ill children requiring pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission.

Materials And Methods: All children between the ages of 1 month and 14 years admitted to a PICU were included in this study. The vitamin-D level was measured within 24 hours of admission to the PICU for each patient.

Selection of right medical students to combat rural shortage of doctors: could it be a solution? In perspective of Bangladesh.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted to find the association between duration of service in rural health facilities and physicians' background factors to redress geographic imbalances in physician distribution.

Maternal and neonatal serum zinc level and its relationship with neural tube defects.

Neural tube defect (NTD) is a multi-factorial disorder in which nutritional, genetic and environmental factors are involved. Among the nutritional factors, low level of serum zinc has been reported from different parts of the world. This hospital-based case-control study was conducted with the objective of finding the relationship between serum zinc level in newborns and their mothers and NTDs in a Bangladeshi population.