1.Differences in clinical laboratory data between the healthy elderly and the healthy young adults.
Chang Won WON ; Dong Hoon SHIN ; Haeng LEE
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1997;18(1):29-38
BACKGROUND: The elderly is known to have many different clinical laboratory data compared with the young adults. But, in Korea, such study is lacking. METHODS: We gathered 98 healthy elderly cases and 98 healthy young adult controls who have taken periodic health examination from January 1993 to May 1996 at one hospital and we compared the mean of various clinical laboratory data between the two groups. RESULTS: In both sexes, cholesterol, ESR, glucose were significantly higher in the elderly t,han in the controls and direct bilirubin was significantly lower in the elderly than in the controls(P<0.05). In men, albumin, calcium, hemoglobin were significantly lower in the elderly than in the controls and MCV was significantly higher in the elderly than in the controls(P<0.05). In women, alkaline phosphatase, LDH, triglyceride, GOT, GPT, T3,TSH, phosphate were significantly higher in the elderly than in the controls and total bilirubin, protein, uric acid were significantly lower in the elderly than in the controls(P<0.05). WBC count, platelet count, neutrophil count(%), lymphocyte count(%), eosinophil count (%), monocyte count(%), MCH, MCHC, BUN, creatinine, HDL were not significantly different between two groups. CONCLUSIONS: Many clinical laboratory data are different between the elderly and the young adults, and some clinical laboratory data have sexual differences.
Aged*
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Alkaline Phosphatase
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Bilirubin
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Calcium
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Cholesterol
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Creatinine
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Eosinophils
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Female
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Glucose
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Humans
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Korea
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Lymphocytes
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Male
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Monocytes
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Neutrophils
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Platelet Count
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Triglycerides
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Uric Acid
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Young Adult*
2.A Case of Eccrine Poroma.
Jeung Hoon LEE ; Chang Uhn LIM ; Yoo Shin LEE
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1980;18(3):227-231
No abstract available.
Poroma*
3.The toxic effects of cryoprotectants on the mouse embryo.
Chung Hoon KIM ; Shin Yong MOON ; Yoon Seok CHANG
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1991;34(10):1400-1409
No abstract available.
Animals
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Embryonic Structures*
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Mice*
4.Two Cases of Seckel Syndrome.
Kyu Chang PARK ; Phil Soo OH ; Jeh Hoon SHIN
Journal of Korean Society of Pediatric Endocrinology 1998;3(2):228-230
Seckel syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder of severe growth retardation and distinct craniofacial, orodental, and skeletal anomalies. We report hereby the first two Korean cases of typical Seckel syndrome who had characteristic symptoms of intrauterine growth retardation, small head, large eyes, sharp facial features (beaked nose, dysplastic ears and narrow face) with underdeveloped chin, dwarfism, severe mental retardation, and other malformation. We report two cases of Seckel syndrome with a brief review of related literatures.
Chin
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Dwarfism
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Ear
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Fetal Growth Retardation
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Head
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Intellectual Disability
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Nose
5.Intra and Extraspinal Infected Synovial Cyst of the Lumbar Spine: Case Report.
Chang Hoon JEON ; Weon Ik LEE ; Shin Young KANG
Journal of Korean Society of Spine Surgery 1997;4(2):357-364
Synovial cysts are uncommon lesions that may occur within the spinal canal. Most commonly synovial cysts arise from degenerative apophyseal joints, in particular at the L4-5 level, and are associated with spondylolisthesis. We present one case of lumbar synovial cyst located both intraspinally and extraspinally and originated from the defect of the pars interarticularis. The content of the synovial cyst was infected. The patient progressively developed low back pain and fever. The lesion was diag nosed by computed tomography and a magnetic resonance imaging. The synovial cyst was presented a huge lobulacted intraspinal and extraspinal mass and connected with the L4-5 facet joint on the right side. The dural sac was displaced by the intraspinal mass. Relieve of symptoms was achieved with decompressive laminectomy and removal of the mass. The content of the synovial cyst was infected with Staphylococcus aureus confirmed by the synovial fluid culture. The reasons for our report are to describe the previously unreported appearance of this lesion that was huge lobulated intraspinal and extraspinal mass with infected fluid content originated from the defect of the pars interarticularis.
Fever
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Humans
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Joints
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Laminectomy
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Low Back Pain
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Nose
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Spinal Canal
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Spine*
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Spondylolisthesis
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Synovial Cyst*
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Synovial Fluid
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Zygapophyseal Joint
6.Double Incision Technique for Carpal Tunnel Release.
Shin Young KANG ; Chang Hoon JEON ; Kyeong Jin HAN
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1998;33(2):411-415
A preliminary study was conducted to evaluate the immediate postoperative recovery and socioeconomic efficacy with the surgical release of Carpal tunnel syndrome by double incision technique. Sixty cases of carpal tunnel syndrome were operated by one surgeon between 1993 and 1995 and 44 cases in 39 patients were available for this study. Surgery was done under axillary block and patients were evaiuated preoperatively, 3 weeks and 6 weeks each postoperatively. The evaluation was focused on the immediate recovery in terms of subjective symptoms of pain and paresthesia, local tenderness, strength of grip power and pinch power and postoperative disability. 1l was noted that surgical release of carpal tunnel syndrome utilizing double incision technique was as effective as seen in the endoscopic release in terms of quicker recovery of pain, local tenderness and strength. It was also noted that this double incision technique was as safe and economically beneficial as observed in the conventional open procedure.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Hand Strength
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Humans
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Paresthesia
7.Vibration perception threshold measured by a bone vibrator of audiometer.
Jong Young LEE ; Dong Hoon SHIN ; Seung Hoon LEE ; Moo Sik LEE ; Suk Kwan SUH ; Chang Yoon KIM
Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1993;5(2):244-249
No abstract available.
Vibration*
8.Coronary Intervention of Cardiogenic Shock in Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Jae Woong CHOI ; Chang Sup SONG ; Chin Woo IMM ; Tae Hoon AHN ; In Seog CHOI ; Ik Kyun SHIN ; Young Hoon PARK
Korean Circulation Journal 1996;26(2):449-454
BACKGROUND: Despite improvement of mortality in acute myocardial infarcrtion, high mortality rate associated with cardiogenic shock remains essentially unchanged. We have reviewed our result of coronary intervention in 15 patients and found relative survival advantage. METHODS: Between Sep. 1992 and Aug. 1995, 15 consecutive patients(M. 10, F. 5) with cardiogenic shock in acute myocardial infarction were treated with coronary intervention using ballon PTCA. IABP was inserted in all patients prior to PTCA. RESULTS: 1) Most commonly found infarct related artery was left anterior descending artery(11) followed by right coronary artery(3) and left main coronary artery(1). 2) Successful reperfusion rate was 86.7%(13/15), and in-hospital mortality rate was 26.7%(4/15). 3) In-hospital mortality was higher in elderly patients compared with less than 70yaer old patients(0%(0/11)vs. 75.0%(3/4)(P < 0.05). 4) Mortality rate was lower in single vessel disease than multivessel disease(11.1%(1/9) vs. 50%(3/6) p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Although this study is uncontrolled, the date suggest that urgent coronary intervention for improving coronary perfusion may reduce mortality of acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock, particularly with single vessel disease and young age group.
Aged
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Arteries
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Hospital Mortality
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Humans
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Mortality
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Myocardial Infarction*
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Perfusion
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Reperfusion
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Shock, Cardiogenic*
9.Microleakage of composite resin restoration according to the number of thermocycling.
Chang Youn KIM ; Dong Hoon SHIN
Journal of Korean Academy of Conservative Dentistry 2007;32(4):377-384
Present tooth bonding system can be categorized into total etching bonding system (TE) and self-etching boding system (SE) based on their way of smear layer treatment. The purposes of this study were to compare the effectiveness between these two systems and to evaluate the effect of number of themocycling on microleakage of class V composite resin restorations. Total forty class V cavities were prepared on the single-rooted bovine teeth and were randomly divided into four experimental groups: two kinds of bonding system and another two kinds of thermocycling groups. Half of the cavities were filled with Z250 follwing the use of TE system, Single Bond and another twenty cavities were filled with Metafil and AQ Bond, SE system. All composite restoratives were cured using light curing unit (XL2500, 3M ESPE, St. Paul, MN, USA) for 40 seconds with a light intensity of 600 mW/cm2. Teeth were stored in distilled water for one day at room temperature and were finished and polished with Sof-Lex system. Half of teeth were thermocycled 500 times and the other half were thermocycled 5,000 times between 5degrees C and 55degrees C for 30 second at each temperature. Teeth were isolated with two layers of nail varnish except the restoration surface and 1 mm surrounding margins. Electrical conductivity (microA) was recorded in distilled water by electrochemical method. Microleakage scores were compared and analyzed using two-way ANOVA at 95% level. From this study, following results were obtained: There was no interaction between variables of bonding system and number of thermocycling (p = 0.485). Microleakage was not affected by the number of thermocycling either (p = 0.814). However, Composite restoration of Metafil and AQ Bond, SE bond system showed less microleakage than composite restoration of Z250 and Single Bond, TE bond system (p = 0.005).
Electric Conductivity
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Paint
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Smear Layer
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Tooth
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Water
10.Characteristics of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in Serum; Pattern of Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein(Large Complex) in Short Stature Patients with Complete Growth Hormone Deficiency.
Jin Nyoung PARK ; Byung Deok SEO ; Jeh Hoon SHIN ; Soo Ji MOON ; Sung Yeoul CHANG
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1994;37(11):1548-1558
To elucidate the complex of insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGF-BPs) in short stature patients, we carried out a prospective study on three patients who were diagnosed as complete GH deficiency at the department of pediatrics from July 1992 to June 1993. The results were summarized as follows: 1) Two circulating IGFs complexed to specific binding protein existed in normal serum. Binding activity was found to be in the 150,000 molecular weight area (the large complex) and 50~60,000 molecular weight area (the small complex). 2) Binding activity for the large complex was seen to be dependent on advancing age, level of large IGF-BP3 complex peacked at the age of 15~16 years. 3) The binding activity for large complex diminished in three GH deficient patients and increased after hGH injection to near or above normal level. 4) Increased growth rate after GH treatment in GH deficient patient was closely related with increasing level of the large IGF-BP3 complex. Therefore we suggest that the large IGF-BP3 complex is regulated by GH. Estimating its serum level is useful for screening of GH deficiency and the monitoring of response to GH therapy.
Carrier Proteins
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Growth Hormone*
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Humans
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Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins
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Insulin-Like Growth Factor I*
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Mass Screening
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Molecular Weight
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Pediatrics
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Prospective Studies