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Arthroscopy* ; Elbow*

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Animals ; Dogs* ; Lung*

Chondromalacia patella is a symptom complex characterized by aching pain behind the knee cap, retropatella tenderness that is aggravated by the stair climbing. Malalignment is an important factor causing chondromalacia patella. And to recognize it, is important in the diagnosis and treatment. We studied 3 parameters in the chondromalacic knee and nonchondromalacic knee and the following results was obtained. l. In nonchondromalacic knee, the sulcus angle is 141° 7′ and the congruence angle is −5° 1′ 2. In chonduomalacic knee the sulcus sagle is 139° 2′ and the congruence angle is +5° 3′ 3. In the group with abnormal congruence angle, there was much degenerative changes in the patellofemaral joint. So, it can be inferred that chondromalacia is a precursor of the osteoarthritis and the patient with abnormal congruence angle should be treated actively at the early stage if the conservative treatment had failed.
Cartilage Diseases ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Joints ; Knee ; Osteoarthritis ; Patella ; Sesamoid Bones

OBJECTIVES: Objective: Cellular immortality is believed to be a critical step in tumorigenesis. As an important component of the telomere maintenance mechanism, the activation of the enzyme telomerase is tightly associated with cellular immortality and cancer. However, little is known about the status of telomerase during human cervical cancer development. To assess the role of telomerase in the development of malignant transformation of the uterine cervix, this investigation was performed. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Telomerase activity was measured by telomeric repeat amplification protocol(TRAP) assay in 8 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia(CIN) and 24 cervical cancers. The tissue adjacent to the lesions from the same patients was also examined for the presence of telomerase activity. RESULTS: Thirty one of the 32(96.9%) lesions were positive for telomerase activity. In the CIN patients, four of the 8(50.0%) lesions showed moderately to strongly positive activities. In the cervical cancer Ia lesions, five of the 9(55.6%), and beyond the stage Ib lesions, fourteen of the 15(93.3%) showed moderately to strongly positive activities. There was a positive correlation between the grade of the lesion and the telomerase activity(P=0.023). Patient's gravida and telomerase activity also had a positive correlation(P=0.022). CONCLUSION: Relatively weak telomerase activity was detected in the low grade cervical lesion and strong activity was detected in the high grade lesion. There was a progressive increase of telomerase activity in association with an increased degree of cervical lesion. Patient's gravida also had an association with telomerase activity. These results suggest that the expression of telomerase activity may play a crucial role in cervical carcinogenesis.
Carcinogenesis ; Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia* ; Cervix Uteri ; Female ; Humans ; Telomerase* ; Telomere ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

PURPOSE: To evaluate and compare the difference of predictive post-operative refraction preoperatively and real post-operative refraction among five types of intraocular lens. METHODS: We reviewed retrospectively 567 cataractous eyes that had undergone phacoemulsification or ECCE with posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) implantation by the same surgeon. Applied IOLs were AMO(R) Phacoflex(R) II SI40NB, Acrysof(R) MA60BM, Sensar(TM) AR40e, CeeOn(TM) 811B and CeeOn(TM) 720A. Prediction of post-operative refraction (predictive refraction) was calculated by the SRK/T formula with manufactured A constant. Post-operative manifest refraction (real refraction) was done at least 2 months postoperatively. We compared the difference between the predictive refraction and the real refraction by paired t-test. RESULTS: Total studied eyes were 390 eyes. In all groups, more myopic shift were observed than predicted. In AMO(R) Phacoflex(R) II SI40NB group, statistically significant difference was seen in postoperative manifest refraction over the predictive refraction as much as mean 0.46 diopter myopically (p<0.05, paired t-test), but others were not. In the AR40e implanted group, the error of predictive refraction was the smallest among groups. CONCLUSIONS: Prediction of postoperative refractive state was influenced by various clinical factors. Using a revised A constant, predictive error would be decreased. We recommend that every cataract surgeon had better have one's original A constant over each IOL and A constant may be revised when major surgical or biomedical measurement settings were changed.
Cataract ; Lenses, Intraocular* ; Phacoemulsification ; Refractive Errors ; Retrospective Studies

Since the first report by Tansini in 1896, the latissimus dorsi muscle free flap has been widely used for various types of soft tissue defect due to reliable anatomy with a sufficient diameter of neurovascular pedicle and a sizable muscle. However, for relatively small soft tissue defect, latissimus dorsi free flap offers several distinct disadvantages of donor site including loss of the posterior axillary fold and flattening of the posterolateral chest wall, weakness of upper arm strength in extension, adduction and internal rotation. We treated three patients having various types of soft tissue defect using segmental latissimus dorsi muscular free flap depending on its descending branch of thoracodorsal neurovascular pedicles. There were no serious complications during 18 months of mean follow-up. We concluded that this method has some advantages such as no weakness of strength of the upper arm including walking on crutches, preserving the posterior axillary fold, preventing winging of the scapula and increased chance of using a flow-through technique. Here we present our cases of reconstruction of soft tissue defect using segmental latissimus dorsi free flap with a review of the literature.
Arm ; Crutches ; Follow-Up Studies ; Free Tissue Flaps* ; Humans ; Scapula ; Superficial Back Muscles* ; Thoracic Wall ; Tissue Donors ; Walking

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Blood Pressure* ; Extremities*

In Korea, the need of medical care is high in persons with disabilities. But the health care system, especially the continuum of long-term rehabilitation care for the persons with disabilities is not well established. Under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the pressure to open up the health care market has been increased in Korea. This article examines the health care system of developed countries (USA, UK and Japan) with review of the health policies, laws, income security and pensions, payment systems, medical rehabilitation facilities, and home health services for the persons with disabilities. And this article also discusses the process of the health care market opening in Korea, the debating issues, the implications for the domestic medical market, and the matter of concern in rehabilitation medicine field. In the viewpoint of the rehabilitation medicine, the transitional services and home health services for the persons with disabilities should be prepared, and the public health should be expanded as the social network of the persons with disabilities, before the health care market is fully opened up.
Delivery of Health Care* ; Developed Countries* ; Disabled Persons* ; Health Care Sector* ; Health Policy ; Health Services ; Humans ; Jurisprudence ; Korea ; Pensions ; Public Health ; Rehabilitation

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Cerebral Palsy* ; Early Diagnosis* ; Neurologic Examination*