No abstract available.
Prostate* ; Testis*

BACKGROUND: An autopersion balloon catheter(ABC) was developed to allow passive myocardial perfusion during balloon inflation, through a central and multiple side hole in the shaft proximal and distal to the balloon. The ABC affords greater safety in performing PTCA of high risk stenosis involving the near ostium of the right coronary, the proximal left anterior descending(LAD) just proximal to the left circumflex artery and left main equivalent coronary arteries. METHODS AND RESULTS: In case 1, a seventy five percent right coronary ostial stenosis was reduced to less than 10 percent residual narrowing after PTCA with the ABC. In case 2, a seventy five percent proximal LAD(just proximal to left cirumflex artery) stenosis was reduced to less than 20 percent residual narrowing after PTCA with the ABC. In case 3, coronary angiogram demonstrated a 40 percent stenosis in the distal left main coronary artery as well as 80 percent stenosis in the proximal LAD.PTCA with the ABC was performed without significant hemodynamic compromise, achieving a less than 20 percent and 40 percent residual stenosis of the distal left main and proximal LAD respectively. CONCLUSIONS: 3 patients who would have required CABG had PTCA using the ABC.This ABC significatly reduces ischemic symptoms and signs during PTCA, allowing prolonged of balloon inflation.
Arteries ; Catheters* ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Coronary Vessels ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Inflation, Economic ; Myocardial Ischemia* ; Perfusion

Lactobacillus sp., generally considered to be a harmless indigenous bacteria of the mucous membrane, occasionally causes serious infections. Lactobacillus endocarditis is a very rare disease, and no case has been reported in Korea. Gram-positive bacilli were isolated from blood cultures of a 41-year-old man with clinically suspected subacute bacterial endocarditis. The patient had a dental procedure 3 months prior to the infection. The isolate was identified as L. casei subsp. casei based on the cultural characteristics and gas liquid chromatography of metabolic products. The patient was treated with ampicillin and improved. When Lactobacillus is isolated from the blood of an endocarditis patient, the significance should be seriously considered. MeSH Terms:
Adult ; Endocarditis, Bacterial/*etiology ; Human ; Lactobacillus casei/*isolation & purification ; Male ; Septicemia/*etiology

We identified the early and late prognostic factors of acute myocardial infarction, and evaluated the clinical differences and the prognosis between Q-wave myocardial infarction and non-Q wave myocardial infarction. Total 146 patients who were managed from Jan 1987 to Aug. 1989 at hallym University hospital were evaluated. According to the presence or absence of Q wave on electrocardiogram, the patients were divided into two groups : a Q wave myocardial infarction group(QMI) and a non-Q wave myocardial infarction group (NQMI). Among 146 patients 109 patients(74.7%) had QMI and 37 patients(25.3%) had NQNI. The mean age, male to female ratio and serum cholesterol level were similar in both groups. But peak level of CPK was significantly higher in the QMI group than that in the NQMI group(P<0.01). Left ventricular end-systolic dimension and ratio of left ventricular dimension to wall thickness in the QMI group were significantly higher than that in the NQMI group(P<0.01). There were no significant differences between two groups in the incidences of mortality, postinfarction angina and re-infarction. During the in-hospital period female gender, old age(more than 60 years), Killip class at admission, early reinfarction and a history of hypertension were significant prognostic factors. main causes of death during the in-hospital period were ventricular tachyarrthymia, heart failure and cardiogenic shock. The incidences of mortality, heart failure and post-infarction angina during a mean follow-up period of 14 months (6~30months) were same in the two groups. The late prognostic factors were old age(more than 60 years), Killip class at admission, heart failure occured during follow-up period(P<0.001) and a history of diabetes mellitus(P<0.05). The patients with late postinfarction angina had more dilated left ventricular end-systolic demension(P<0.05) and lower fractional shortening(P<0.01) than those of patients without late postinfraction angina. There were no significant difference in long term survival rate between QMI group and NQMI group. Further prospective study should be performed to clarify the short and long term prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by reperfusion.
Cause of Death ; Cholesterol ; Electrocardiography ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Heart Failure ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Incidence ; Male ; Mortality ; Myocardial Infarction* ; Prognosis ; Reperfusion ; Shock, Cardiogenic ; Survival Rate

A case of melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy was presented. This tumor occurred in the right maxillary alveolar ridge of 3-month-old female infant, showing bluish enlargement of alveolar mucosa with the displacement of central deciduous incisor. We described the gross, microscopic, and ultrastructural findings of this tumor. This case appears to be the first case of MNTI, reported in a Korean.
Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Maxillary Neoplasms/*pathology ; Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal/*pathology

No abstract available.
Polycystic Kidney Diseases*

Tularemia is a major laboratory acquired zoonoses caused by Francisella tularensis that have high virulence, and usually transmitted to humans from direct contact with infected wild animals like rabbits or insect vectors like ticks. Clinical tularemia can be divided with 6 major syndromes that are delineated by the mode of organism aquisition, in which ulceroglandular type is the most common. F. tularensis have 3 different biogroups which have homogeneous antigenecity, type A (biogroup tularensis), type B (biogroup palearctica) and biogroup novicida, and can be confirmed by serology most frequently. In the domestic area, there was no reports of tularemia in humans or presence of bacteria in the reservoirs. Authers experienced a case of tularemia which is suspected as F. tularensis type B, ulceroglandular type. A healthy 40-year-old man admitted the hospital for lymph node swelling in both axillary and upper arm area and for furuncles in both forearm and palm. He contacted with dead rabbit and eated it after cooking before 20 days from admission day. In laboratory cultures, F. tularensis did not grow in any of the routine or anaerobic culture media except for one blood agar plate at 5 days. After subculturing that to cystine containing chocolate agar plate at 37C degree, 5% CO2 incubator, we could see the accelerating growth of colony. In microbiological test, it was oxidase and urease negative. In acid production in cystine trypticase agar base, it was glucose positive and sucrose, maltose, glycerol negative. In agglutinating test, F. tularensis antiserum titer (Difco, USA) with isolates was 1:160 or over and antibody titer to F. tularensis antigen (Difco, USA) was 1:320 or over. Anti-F. tularensis-IF assay and Anti-F. tularensis-indirect-EIA with isolates were positive.
Adult ; Agar ; Animals ; Animals, Wild ; Arm ; Bacteria ; Cacao ; Cooking ; Culture Media ; Cystine ; Forearm ; Francisella tularensis* ; Francisella* ; Furunculosis ; Glucose ; Glycerol ; Humans ; Incubators ; Insect Vectors ; Lymph Nodes ; Maltose ; Oxidoreductases ; Rabbits ; Sucrose ; Ticks ; Tularemia* ; Urease ; Virulence ; Zoonoses

Endovascular aortic repair is a new alternative to conventional surgical repair of aortic pathology. It is a less invasive technique and gives less hemodynamic stress to the patients who may have concomitant systemic diseases, compared with open aortic reconstruction. We report 2 cases of patients with thoracic aortic diseases, who underwent endovascular stent graft placement under general anesthesia. We also include a review of the literature about anesthetic management of endovascular aortic repair and present our opinions about the need to choose a suitable anesthetic technique for each patient, the method to recognize and handle the possible complications and hemodynamic changes to which we have to pay attention during procedures.
Anesthesia, General ; Aortic Diseases* ; Blood Vessel Prosthesis* ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Pathology ; Stents*

BACKGROUND: ATP is an endogenous nucleotide that has potential electrophysiologic effects. The effects of ATP are largely mediated by its metabolite, adenosine, which acts on A1 receptor in myocardium and mediates negative chronotropic, dromotropic, and inotropic action. The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy and side effects of ATP in the treatment of paroxymal supraventricular tachycardia(PSVT). METHODS: We analyzed 28 episodes of PSVT in 22 patients(7 men and 15 women, mean age 467.+/-15.9 years), who were selected from Jan. 1992 to Sep. 1992. After measuring blood pressure and obtaining a standard 12 leads electrocardiogram(ECG), we rapidly injected ATP intravenously with dose of 10, 15, 20mg every 1 min, until the termination of PSVT. We recorded peri-injection and post-injection ECG, interval between ATP injection and the termination of PSVT, the pause after termination, side effects and blood pressure immediately after termination. RESULTS: 1) Among 28 episodes of PSVE, 26 episodes(92.9%) were terminated successfully : 21 episodes(75%) with 10mg, 3 episodes(10.7%) with 15mg, and 2 episodes(7.2%) with 20mg of ATP. 2 episodes(7.1%) were failed. 2) The PSVT ended 21.2+/-9.2 seconds after injection of ATP(maximally 40 seconds). 3) The mechanisms of PSVT in 9 patients were atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia(AVNRT), those in 13 patients were atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia(AVRT). 4) The side effects of ATP included 13 episodes of chest pain(46.6%), 9 episodes of ventricular arrhythmia(32.1%), 6 episodes of sinus pause(21.4%) and 5 episodes of atrioventricular block(17.9%), and these were uncomplicated and short-lasting. CONCLUSION: The ARP is a safe and effective therapy for the conversion of PSVT to sinus rhythm and perhaps more importantly, a valuable new approach to the management and diagnosis of wide-complex tachycardia.
Adenosine Triphosphate ; Adenosine* ; Blood Pressure ; Diagnosis ; Electrocardiography* ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Myocardium ; Tachycardia ; Tachycardia, Supraventricular* ; Thorax

Sclerosing peritonitis is an unusual fibrosing condition predominantly involving the omentum and simulating carcinoma. The presenting signs and symptoms, imaging examination and cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) status in sclerosing peritonitis sometimes resemble those of ovarian cancer. Thus, the possibility of sclerosing peritonitis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of ovarian carcinoma. It may occur idiopathically and secondary to chronic peritoneal dialysis, the use of peritoneovenous shunt, practolol therapy, or in association with ovarian tumors such as ovarian teratoma. We report a case of peritonitis initially suspected as ovarian carcinoma but diagnosed as sclerosing peritonitis associated with teratoma.
Diagnosis, Differential ; Omentum ; Ovarian Neoplasms ; Peritoneal Dialysis ; Peritoneovenous Shunt ; Peritonitis ; Practolol ; Teratoma