Since 1954. radioisotope renography has been performed as a useful kidney function test in the urological field The author using Hypaque-I which has no liver interference, performed radioisotope renography on 25 cases, in which 10 cases of normal, 5 cases of obstructive uropathy, 7 cases of renal dysfunction, 1 case of acute glomerulonephritis and 2 cases of hypertensive uropathy were included In the normal cases, the Hypaque-I renogram has 3 typical segments, namely vascular segment, functional segment and evacuation phase. The vascular segment begins 8~20 seconds after a rapid intravenous injection of Hypaque-I, lasting 30-40 seconds and occurs the functional segment. The functional segment is completed within 3~10 minuets, having a peak And then, the evacuation phase appears, inclining down rapidly. In the renogram of obstructive uropathy, the vascular and functional segments are almost normal together, but the evacuation phase is either prolonged or increased In the renogram of renal dysfunction, the vascular segment is not only reduced, but also the functional segment is low and the evacuation phase shows a dull inclining curve. In the renogram of acute glomerulonephritis, shows no changes of each segment. The renogram of hypertensive uropathy represents the remarkably lower vascular and functional segments and evacuation phase than those of renal dysfunction. The Hypaque-I renogram has many practical advantage, offering rapid and immediate results, being easily performed, being non-traumatic and innocuous, making each kidney to be tested separately, being able to be repeated frequently, and being free from any preparation and anesthesia of patients.
Anesthesia ; Glomerulonephritis ; Humans ; Injections, Intravenous ; Kidney ; Kidney Function Tests ; Liver ; Radioisotope Renography

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Drug Therapy* ; Hypertension*

Prolapse of the bladder is a rather unusual occurrence and only comparatively few cases have been reported in the literature. A case of prolapse of the bladder through the urethra occurred in a 9-month-old girl was presented. In this case, the bladder was protruded through the urethra probably due to straining following diarrhea and formed an egg-sized prolapsed mass outside the urethra. The literatures were briefly reviewed.
Diarrhea ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Prolapse* ; Urethra ; Urinary Bladder*

No abstract available.
Hypertension* ; Joints*

No abstract available.
Herpes Simplex*

No abstract available.
Signal Transduction*

The study was aimed to assess the H. pylori infection rate and to investigate contributing factors among 105 orphans and 85 handicapped institutionalized children. H. pylori seropositivity was 71.4% (75/105) in the handicapped as compared to 41.3% (77/186) in the control. Orphan children were at the highest risk factor of affecting H. pylori in the first three years, but healthy orphan children were more likely to be infected in the first year of residence while handicapped children were more likely to be infected in the second and the third year of their residence. There was no link between lifestyle, health status and HP infection in both two groups of children
Helicobacter pylori ; child ; epidemiology

52 patients (46 males, 6 females) with esophageal varices bleeding, age from 19-84 years, who were treated at the Central Military hospital 108 from September 2002 to September 2003. The level of breakdown via endoscopy and the number of esophageal varices breakdown on 52 patients included: 5 cases with mild level, 13 cases with average and 34 cases with severe level; 7 patients at grade II, 45 grade III; 59.6% of patients in the first time of bleeding, 21.6% secondly and 19.2% ≥3 times. Treatment results: 71.2% patients had a complete hemostasis; recurrent rate was 57.7%, in which the rate was 9.6% during first month. For 2 years of followed up, mortality rates one month and 2 years after were 13.3% of 57.7%, respectively. The results indicated that the endoscopic varices ligation have good effectiveness in urgent hemostatic cases but ineffectiveness in long-term outcome.
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage ; Esophageal and Gastric Varices ; Therapeutics

Growing increase in resistance of H. pylori strains to antibiotics of choice is identified worldwide, requiring further investigating susceptible characteristics of the germ to these agents. Objectives: To assess the resistance of H. pylori individual colonies from a single biopsy to metronidazole and clarithromycin. Methods: The E - test was used to determine the Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MICs) of these two antimicrobial drugs for ten H. pylori colonies isolated from an initial gastric biopsy culture from each of 14 adults and 14 children. Results: Among patients haboring HP strains resistant to these 2 antimicrobials, we observed heterogeneity in metronidazole resistance in 14/22 cases and in clarithromycin resistance in 3/13 cases. The number of resistant individual colonies ranged from 2/10 to 9/10 depending on subjects. Conclusions: In the same biopsy from both adults and children different colonies of H. pylori displayed different antimicrobial susceptibility patterns prior to anti - H. pylori treatment, rendering antibiogram interpretation difficult.
Helicobacter pylori, Adult, Child, Metronidazole

The surveillance of medicinal material market was conducted in NinhHiep market, LanOng street in Hanoi and in LangSon Province showed that the regulation of storage and circulating of medicinal material was not complied with only 9/31 samples (29,03%) met Vietnam PharmacopeaeIII standards. Only 17/39 imported samples met the standards of VN or China Pharmacopeae. Validity date must be standardized completely. The Regulation of Control of Medicinal Materials including periodical regular control must be issued by MOH for the whole country market
Chemistry, Pharmaceutical ; Plants, Medicinal ; Health Care Sector