Introduction: Birth weight is a reliable index of intra-uterine growth and a major factordetermining child survival, future physical growth and mental development.Objectives: The present study was designed to explore the association of maternalserum as well as cord serum vitamin A level with birth weight.Materials and Methods: This prospective randomized study was carried out in Maternityand Child Health Training Institute (MCHTI), Azimpur, Dhaka during the period fromJanuary to July, 2002 on 100 healthy pregnant mothers of 38-40 weeks of gestationand on 100 new born babies born to these mothers.Results: Mean birth weight was 2804 gm (±43.1) with a range of 1600-3900 gm. Cordserum vitamin A level was 583 (±1.73) μg/dl with a range of 4.9-102.04 μg/dl, whilematernal serum vitamin A level was 53.5μg/dl (±1.5) with a range of 17.2-89.2 μg/dl.Newborn having birth weight ≥ 2500gm was found to have higher level of maternalserum vitamin A than the newborn having weight <2500gm, (54.5±1.6 μg/dl vs 49.4±3.04μg/dl, p=.06) but the difference was not statistically significant. There was no significantdifference in cord serum vitamin A level between two groups of newborn (57.8±2.06μg/dl vs. 60.2±2.03 μg/dl, p=.2).Key words: Vitamin A concentration; birth weight.DOI: 10.3329/bjch.v33i2.5676Bangladesh Journal of Child Health 2009; Vol.33(2): 46-49

Introduction:Abortion is one of the most common complications of pregnancy occurring in clinically recognized pregnancies 1 . South Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Srilanka) being highly populated, resource constrained and underdeveloped region, holds almost one third (30%) of world's maternal deaths and approximately 13% of them are related to abortions and its procedures 2 . There is no exact data of missed abortion in Bangladesh annually. But the annual induced abortion rate in Bangladesh is estimated to be 28 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-49. Dilatation and evacuation of uterus has been the standard, acceptable approach to early pregnancy failure of a period of 50 years with more than 95% success rate 3 . The overall complication rates with surgical evacuation are between 4 and 10% and consists of cervical injury, uterine perforation, pelvic Review Article Role of Misoprostol in Missed Abortion

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate causal association of serum ferritin with pre-term labour. Materials and Methods: This is a case-control study done on one hundred and twenty women from July 2005 to June 2007 in the department of obstetrics and gynecology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and Mother and Child Health Training Institute (MCHTI), Azimpur, Dhaka. Cases (n=60) were singleton pregnant women starting preterm labour within 28-36 weeks of pregnancy and control (n=60) were singleton pregnant women of >37 weeks of gestation who were in lalour. In this case-control study pre-term labour patients were compared with controls regarding their serum ferritin level. Result: Mean ±SD serum ferritin level of control and in pre-term labour group of women were 37.01±26.84 μg/L was 210.37±67.20 μg/L respectively. The difference between two groups was statistically highly significant (<0.001) Key words: Preterm lalour; serum ferritin DOI: 10.3329/bjog.v24i1.6321 Bangladesh J Obstet Gynaecol, 2009; Vol. 24(1) : 14-17

Fibroids are the commonest benign neoplasm of the uterus and have long been implicated as a cause of complication during pregnancy and delivery. Fibroids arising from uterine cervix constitute only less than 2% of all fibroids and a very large cervical fibroid is even rarer1·2·3. This is case report of pregnancy with a huge cervical fibroid that necessitated caesarean section delivery. This unusually large fibroid (20 x 17 x 16 cm) was grown from the cervix that pushed up the uterine body upward. During initial caesarean operation the surgical team could not ascertain about the origin of the mass and closed the abdomen without remony the man. Subsequent laparotomy three months after caesarean section finally confirmed the diagnosis of the huge cervical fibroid. It was dissected out from the surrounding adhesion followed by end-to-end anastomosis of the gap between uterus and cervix. The postoperative period was uneventful with smooth recovery. The patient was followed up couple of times after discharge and reported to be well with return of her normal menstrual and reproductive function. Journal of Surgical Sciences (2013) Vol. 17 (1) : 58-61

<p class="Abstract">This study was conducted to evaluate the association of serum cancer antigen (CA-125) level with the severity of pelvic endometriosis. Seventy diagnosed cases of pelvic endometriosis were included in this study. The CA-125 level was estimated in all these patients, cutoff value of the serum CA-125 level was considered 35.0 U/mL. The correlations between serum CA-125 and different stages of endometriosis were evaluated by linear regression analysis. In Stage I of endometriosis, the mean serum CA-125 level was 21.8 ± 15.1 U/mL, in Stage II 26.0 ± 17.3 U/mL, in Stage III 83.2 ± 48.9 U/mL and in Stage IV 117.0 ± 41.6 U/mL. A significant positive correlation (r=0.729; p=0.001) was found between the serum CA-125 and different stages of endometriosis.</p>