Optic nerve sheath diameter measurements using ultrasonography to diagnose raised intracranial pressure in preeclampsia: an observational study.

Objective: To estimate the incidence of raised intracranial pressure (ICP) as evident by enlarged optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) by ocular ultrasound among patients with preeclampsia and its relationship to severity of disease.

Material And Methods: Sixty pregnant mothers with preeclampsia were compared to 30 normotensive, uncomplicated pregnant controls. For ONSD measurement, a 7-MHZ linear probe was used and three values from each optic nerve were taken and the mean of six values of both eyes was recorded.

Unusual double pituitary adenoma: a case report.

We report the case of a 60-year-old woman with Cushing disease. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a large sellar and suprasellar mass involving the right cavernous sinus, consistent with pituitary macroadenoma. It was resected by transsphenoidal surgery.

Rosai-Dorfman disease involving the neurohypophysis.

Rosai-Dorfman disease is a rare, histiocytic proliferative disorder of unknown etiology commonly affecting lymph nodes. Extranodal lesions with or without nodal involvement also occur. We report the case of a 63 year-old woman with disseminated Rosai-Dorfman disease involving the neurohypophysis and associated with adenohypophysial PRL cell hyperplasia.

Risk factors for the development of gestational diabetes mellitus.

A descriptive type of cross sectional study was carried out from July 2003 to June 2004 in Mymensingh Medical College & Hospital. This study was designed to find out the risk factors for the development of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). Forty cases of GDM (primigravida and multigravida) with single pregnancy, means exclusion of twin pregnancy were selected as experimental group, while forty other cases of pregnant women without GDM constituted the control group.