No abstract available.
Korea* ; Orientia tsutsugamushi* ; Rickettsia*

Pseudoaneurysm due to chronic pancreatitis is uncommon, but it can cause recurrent and massive hemorrhage. Because of high morbidity and mortality associated with the pseudoaneurysm, early detection and treatment is essential. Surgical ligation or resection of the aneurysm has a high mortality and therefore, transcatheter embolization is preferably carried out. We report a case in which gastroduodenal artery pseudoaneurysm caused by chronic pancreatitis was successfully treated by transcatheter embolization using Gelfoam and Gianturco spring coils.
Aneurysm ; Aneurysm, False* ; Arteries* ; Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable ; Hemorrhage ; Ligation ; Mortality ; Pancreatitis, Chronic*

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Heart Arrest, Induced* ; Oxygen*

No abstract available.

We performed surgery for correction of abnormal head turn in 10 patients with congenital nystagmus. For 3 patients with a head turn of 30 degrees, a 40% augmented modified kestenbaum operation was performed. For 4 patients with a head turn of 45 degrees, a 40% augmented modified kestenbaum operation combined with a 3 - 4 mm recession of conjunctival and subconjunctival tissues was performed. Finally, for 3 patients with a head turn of 60 degrees, a 60% augmented modified kestenbaum procedure combined with a 3 - 4 mm recession of conjunctival and subconjunctival tissues was performed. At the final follow-up visit(averaging 5.9 months), 7 patients showed complete corrections of previous head turn and 3 patients showed a small residual head turn of less than 10 degrees to the same side of the preoperative head turn. The average amount of correction we obtained from the surgery described above were 26.7, 42.5 and 56.7 degrees for the patients who had had a preoperative head turn of 30, 45 and 60 degrees respectively. Among the 10 patients, 4 showed no change in corrected visual acuity, but 6 showed increased corrected visual acuity by over 1 Snellen line. From the above results, we concluded that if recession procedure of the conjunctival and subconjunctival tissues was combined with augmented modified Kestenbaum procedure, its effect for correction of abnormal head turn in a patient with congenital nystagmus could be enhanced.
Follow-Up Studies ; Head* ; Humans ; Nystagmus, Congenital* ; Visual Acuity

No abstract available.
Asthma* ; Theophylline*

No abstract available.
Empyema* ; Typhoid Fever* ; Urinary Bladder*

This study was undertaken to know the extent of apoptosis, expression of bcl-2 and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in uterine cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN; 15 cases) and invasive carcinoma (27 cases) and to evaluate them as a prognostic marker. Apoptosis was analysed by using the in situ apoptosis detection kit and bcl-2 and PCNA were detected by the immunohistochemical method. The results were as follows: Apoptotic indices (AI) in the invasive carcinoma (mean: 4.3) were 10-times higher than that in the CIN (mean: 0.43). Bcl-2 was expressed 60% of the cases in the dysplastic cells of the CIN II and CIN III, 33.3% of cases in the invasive carcinoma and not expressed in the CIN I except basal cells. The expression of the PCNA was increased by the grades of CIN and was strong in invasive carcinoma. The mean survival time of the patient with invasive carcinoma was significantly decreased in the higher AI index (above 4.3) than in the lower AI index (below 4.3). There was no significant correlation between the extent of apoptosis and the expression of bcl-2. According to the above results, AI are able to be used as an independent prognostic marker in the invasive cervical carcinoma, and bcl-2 and PCNA have an important role in the tumorigenesis of uterine cervical carcinoma.
Apoptosis* ; Carcinogenesis ; Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia* ; Humans ; Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen* ; Survival Rate

No abstract available.