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Alcoholism* ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders* ; Mass Screening* ; Sensitivity and Specificity*

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Bone Density* ; Child* ; Humans

Discrete subaortic stenos is one of the subtype of congenital left ventricular outflow obstruction and frequently associated with other defect such as ventricular septal defect, coarctation of the aorta, inturrupted aortic arch, double-chambered right ventricle and atrioventricular canal. It is progressive disease from the neonatal period and can be a cause of secondary endocarditis or aortic regurgitation. The authors have experienced a case of discrete subaortic stenosis without other associated lesions in 8 years old male patient who has complained chest discomfort. The diagnosis was established by the findings of echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. We report this case with a brief review of related literatures.
Aorta, Thoracic ; Aortic Coarctation ; Aortic Valve Insufficiency ; Cardiac Catheterization ; Cardiac Catheters ; Child ; Diagnosis ; Discrete Subaortic Stenosis* ; Echocardiography ; Endocarditis ; Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular ; Heart Ventricles ; Humans ; Male ; Thorax ; Ventricular Outflow Obstruction

Colloid miliurn consists of yellowish translucent papules or plecques on the light-exposed skin. Histologically, colloid milium shows sharply circumscribed masses of a fissured, homogeneous, faintly eosinophilic material in the upper third of the dermis. The authors present three elderly female patients of colloid milium who had yellowish translucent papules on the face and dorsum of the hands. The incidence of the disorder may be heigher than has been suspected.
Aged ; Colloids* ; Dermis ; Eosinophils ; Female ; Hand ; Humans ; Incidence ; Skin

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Paralysis* ; Radial Nerve*

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Ectromelia*

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Biliary Tract*

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Diagnosis* ; Hemoglobinuria*

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Pelvic Exenteration*

BACKGROUND: The determination of serotype of enteroviruses is useful for the discrimination between sporadic and epidemic infections. The conventional serotyping method is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Recently, molecular method was introduced for the serotyping of enteroviruses. The aim of this study was to establish a method to isolate and analyze enteroviruses from various specimens utilizing molecular biological techniques and to determine which strains were phylogenetically related to clinical samples. METHODS: Clinical samples in this study included 164 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), 136 stool, 15 sera, 6 throat swab, 5 urine, and 4 sputa, which were obtained from hospitalized patients, primarily infants or children presenting symptoms of aseptic meningitis in 1998. RD cells were used for enterovirus isolation. RT-PCR was performed with RD cell lysate showing CPE. The primers 011 and 012 were used for the VP1 region, and the primers EN1 and EN2 for 5'-UTR. The nucleotide sequences of VP1 region were determined and analyzed with BLAST program. RESULTS: Among 333 samples, only 23 samples produced CPE: 17 samples at first and six samples at the second blind passage. Fifteen isolates were related to coxsackievirus B2 two to echovirus 4, three to echovirus 6, and three to echovirus 18. All 23 viral isolates displayed a nucleotide sequence identity of 80-95%, compared with the reference serotypes. However, the identity was increased up to 93-100% when the VP1 region was translated into amino acids CONCLUSIONS: Since CB2 type was 55% among enteroviral isolates, the CB2 was determined as the major causative serotype of enteroviral meningitis in 1998. CB2 type was emerged between June and July, EC4 and EC6 was limited to July, and EC18 was in August.
Amino Acids ; Base Sequence ; Cerebrospinal Fluid ; Child ; Discrimination (Psychology) ; Echovirus 6, Human ; Enterovirus B, Human ; Enterovirus* ; Humans ; Infant ; Meningitis* ; Meningitis, Aseptic ; Pharynx ; Serotyping*