ABSTRACT
Neonatal death due to inborn error of metabolism (IEM) is rare in Malaysia. We report a sudden neonate death just a few hours after being discharged from the hospital. The deceased was a two-day-old baby boy and was asymptomatic until his demise. He was fed with expressed breast milk and formula milk. Autopsy revealed fatty changes of the liver and an enlarged heart. Laboratory investigation confirmed very long chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency which resulted in his death. Autopsy of sudden unexpected death in neonate should include investigation for inborn error of metabolism. Fatty liver and enlarged heart could give a clue for the diagnosis.
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Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase, Long-Chain/deficiency , Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase/deficiency , Congenital Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes/complications , Fatty Liver/diagnosis , Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors/complications , Mitochondrial Diseases/complications , Muscular Diseases/complications , Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase/metabolism , Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase, Long-Chain/metabolism , Congenital Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes/diagnosis , Congenital Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes/metabolism , Fatal Outcome , Fatty Liver/etiology , Fatty Liver/metabolism , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors/diagnosis , Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors/metabolism , Male , Mitochondrial Diseases/diagnosis , Mitochondrial Diseases/metabolism , Muscular Diseases/diagnosis , Muscular Diseases/metabolismABSTRACT
Anthropometry is the science that deals with the measurement of size, weight and proportion of the human body. Stature is natural heights of a person in an upright position. This can be estimated from arm span length. In the last 50 years of the 20th century various mass disasters such as different powerful storm, flood, plane crash, train accident was increased. Very recently in Chittagong and southern Bangladesh many people were killed through land slides and Seder. As so many disasters were occurring it is possible to identify a missing person if a part of his or her body is available. The arm span lengths can be used as a basis for estimating age-related loss in stature and as an alternative measure to stature. The study was done for the estimation of stature from the arm span on one hundred and fifty Bangladeshi adult Muslim females. Subject was collected from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka and some urban region of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The present study showed significant (p<0.001) positive correlation between the stature and the arm span.
