No abstract available.
Humans ; Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary* ; Siblings*

No abstract available.
Thyroid Gland*

No abstract available.
Caroli Disease*

Cardiac resynchronization therapy is effective in selected patients with symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction. Coronary sinus dissection is a relatively uncommon, but much feared, complication that may occur during placement of the left ventricular pacing lead. A 68-year-old man was transferred to our hospital for treatment of severe heart failure. He developed coronary sinus dissection after balloon dilatation during the procedure for cardiac resynchronization therapy. Nevertheless, we successfully placed the left ventricular pacing lead in the coronary vein. We present the case with a review of the literature.
Aged ; Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy ; Coronary Sinus ; Coronary Vessels ; Dilatation ; Heart Failure ; Humans ; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left

We investigated differences in clinical findings among normal-tension glaucoma(NTG)patients between those with wedge-shaped nerve fiber layer(NFL)defect and with diffuse atrophy. Forty-one eyes of patients with NTG having diurnal intraocular pressure < 21mmHg, glaucomatous visual field defect, optic disc analysis with Heidelberg Retina Tomograph(HRT), and brain magnetic resonance imaging were divided into wedge-shaped defect group and diffuse atrophy group according to the types of NFL atrophy. We found no difference between two groups in the mean deviation of visual field, area of peripapillary atrophy measured with HRT, and presence of peripapillary atrophy. The patients with diffuse atrophy were older than those with wedge-shaped defect(p=0.01). The intraocular pressure was slightly higher (p=0.02)and maximal cup depth was larger(p=0.03)in patients with wedge-shaped defect compared with diffuse atrophy. Cerebral small vessel disease was more frequent in patients with diffuse atrophy than with wedge-shaped defect(p=0.02). This study suggests that cerebral small vessel disease is more common in patients with diffuse atrophy and potentially suggests indirectly ischemia may cause more diffuse damage than localized damage in patients with NTG.
Atrophy* ; Brain ; Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases ; Glaucoma* ; Humans ; Intraocular Pressure ; Ischemia ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Nerve Fibers ; Retina ; Visual Fields

Of 375 newborn infants in Korea General Hospital in the period of 6 months from March 1 to August 30, 1976. 304 newborn infants were available for the study of serum bilirubin level at the third day of the birth. The followings are results analyzed: 1) The mean value of serum bilirubin level estimated is 10.6mg%. The incidence of neonatal jaundice is estimated as 95.4 percent. 2) The premature infants reveal a marked elevation of serum bilirubin level. Conditions with increased level of serum bilirubin in variable degree include vacuum suction and/or forcep delivery, high or low hematocrit value, low Apgar scores, artificial resuscitation, cephalhematoma and spontaneous premature rupture of the membrance. 3) No relationship in serum bilirubin levels between differences in sex, body weight, number of pregnacies and ABO blood groups of mother and infant is present in this study.
Bilirubin ; Blood Group Antigens ; Body Weight ; Hematocrit ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Incidence ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature ; Jaundice, Neonatal* ; Korea ; Mothers ; Parturition ; Resuscitation ; Rupture ; Suction ; Surgical Instruments ; Vacuum

Hemangioma of the testis is an extremely rare lesion, more or less than 10 cases having been reported in infancy or early childhood in the world. We have experienced one case of capillary hemangioma of the left testis in 6 year old Korean male, which was suspicious to be a malignant tumor.
Capillaries* ; Child ; Hemangioma ; Hemangioma, Capillary* ; Humans ; Male ; Testis*

No abstract available.
Burns*

Traumatic middle cerebral artery occlusion has rarely been discussed in the neurosurgical literature. Since Deveer and Browder reported the first case in 1942, only 24 cases of postraumatic middle cerebral artery occlusion has been reported until now. We experienced 2 cases of posttraumatic middle cerebral artery occlusion recently. One patient was 39 years old male who developed right hemiplegia, aphasia, and mental confusion after blunt head injury. Left carotid angiography was done and it revealed complete obstruction of the moddle cerebral artery in its initial portion. The other patient transfered to our Emergency Room under the semicomatous state with multiple facial laceration wounds. Simple skull X-ray revealed multiple linear skull fractures on the left frontal region. Left carotid angiogram showed complete obstruction of left middle cerebral artery in its proximal portion like as former case. During hospitalization, marked improvement was showed in both cases under the conservative treatment with steroid and low molecular weight dextran.
Adult ; Angiography ; Aphasia ; Cerebral Arteries ; Dextrans ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Head Injuries, Closed ; Hemiplegia ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery* ; Lacerations ; Male ; Middle Cerebral Artery* ; Molecular Weight ; Skull ; Skull Fractures ; Wounds and Injuries

No abstract available.
Asthma*