No abstract available.
Arthritis, Rheumatoid*

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Leukemia, Eosinophilic, Acute* ; Trisomy*

In an attempt to evaluate the immune competence of urologic cancer patients, antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) were performed in thirty-four patients and same numbers of age and sex matched normal controls. Also we compared of the level of ADCC before and after the operation. Concomittantly the values of ADCC were examined by histological grading and clinical staging. We used 51Cr-labelled chicken erythrocytes sensitized with 7s rabbit anti-chicken erythrocytes antibody as target cells and patient peripheral mononuclear cells as effector cells. 1. Effector cells of the patients with the urologic cancer showed significantly lower ADCC than those of normal controls. 1) All urologic cancer. Controls 41.4+/-6.0% (n=34) Preoperation 22.1+/-6.8% (n=34) 2) Transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis and the bladder. Controls 41.7+/-6.1% (n=28) Preoperation 22.5+/-6.3% (n=28) 3)Non-transitional cell carcinoma(renal cell Ca. prostate ca. penis ca. seminoma). Controls 40.2+/-5.9% (n=6) Preoperation 20.6+/-4.6% (n=6) 2. In the patients with the transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder and the renal pelvis, highly graded patients had tendency to have lower response of ADCC. Grade I 27.3+/-4.0% (n=14) Grade II 19.9+/-4.l% (n=7) Grade III 15.5+/-3.2% (n=7) 3. In the patients with bladder carcinoma highly staged patients had tendency have lower response of ADDC. Stage T
Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity ; Carcinoma, Transitional Cell ; Chickens ; Erythrocytes ; Humans ; Immunocompetence ; Kidney Pelvis ; Male ; Mental Competency ; Penis ; Prostate ; Tumor Burden ; Urinary Bladder ; Urologic Neoplasms*

A clinical review was performed in 52 cases with the foreign body in the gastrointestinal tract who underwent the endoscopic extraction of fereign body at our hospital from June 1985 to October 1989. The results are as following. 1) The most prevalent age was under 10 years of age (21 cases, 40.4%), and male was more prevalent than female (M:F=1.6:1). 2) The most common site of foreign bodies was esophagus (35 cases, 67.3%), next stomach (15 cases, 28.9%). 3) The foreign bodies in esophagus were coins (18 cases, 51.4%), meats (7 cases, 20.0%), bones (5 cases, 14.3%), other food materials or metals (5 cases, 14.3%)in order of frequency, and those in the stomach wer bezoars (7 cases, 50.0%), coins (2 cases, 14.3%), suture materials (2 cases, 14.3%), others (baduk stone, pin, tack, cross). 4) The combined diseases with upper gastrointestinal foreign bodies were the passage disturbances (11 cases, 21.2%) due to stenosis, and schizophrenia (1 case), aleoholism (1 case). 5) Complications by foreign bodies were 8 cases (15.4%), such as eisophageal laceration or ulceration (4 cases), esophaigeal perforation (1 case), aspiration pneumonia(1 case), duodenal obstruction (2 cases). 6) Successful rate of the endoscopic extraction was 88.5%(46 in 52 cases). And 6 unsuccessful cases were 4 cases who have gastric bezoars too hard and large to extract, a case with esophageal perforation, and a case with bezoar in the third portion of duodenum.
Bezoars ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Duodenal Obstruction ; Duodenum ; Esophageal Perforation ; Esophagus ; Female ; Foreign Bodies* ; Gastrointestinal Tract ; Humans ; Lacerations ; Male ; Meat ; Metals ; Numismatics ; Schizophrenia ; Stomach ; Sutures ; Ulcer

BACKGROUND: As the number of malaria patients has increased in Korea, the number of blood donors who are diagnosed as malaria after donation has also increased. And during 1997~2001, ten cases of transfusion-transmitted malaria were reported. We investigated the transfusion safety of blood that was donated by malaria patients before diagnosis. METHODS: For a total of 2,552 malaria patients diagnosed in 2001, blood donation history of past one year before diagnosis was inquired at the beginning of 2002. Then we inquired informations about recipients of the hospitals through the regional Red Cross blood centers. we also inquired development of malaria after transfusion for the recipients in the August of 2002. Malaria antibody test results of donated blood were also analyzed to determine the status of immunity of donors in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Gangwon area. RESULTS: Among 2,552 malaria patients, 162 (6.3%) patients had donated within one year before diagnosis and they were all man. Their blood was processed into 292 units of blood components and supplied to 90 hospitals, where it was transfused 286 patients. Among these 286 patients, no one was diagnosed as malaria until time of database retrieving. Among 162 malaria patient, enzyme immunoassay malaria antibody test results of 107 (66.0%) patients were available, and all were negative. CONCLUSION: No one has developed malaria among the recipients transfused with blood that was donated by malaria patients before diagnosis. Therefore, the infectivity of blood donated before malaria diagnosis is thought to be very low. As antibody to malaria was not produced in some of malaria patients before diagnosis, this finding could be useful for the study of immunology of malaria infection.
Allergy and Immunology ; Blood Donors ; Diagnosis* ; Gangwon-do ; Gyeonggi-do ; Humans ; Immunoenzyme Techniques ; Korea ; Malaria* ; Red Cross ; Seoul ; Tissue Donors

BACKGROUND: It has been recognized for many years that myocardial infarction is almost invariably associated with significant narrowing of one or more coronary arteries. However, the widespread use of selective coronary angiography has resulted in an increasing number of reports of patients with proved infarction and patent coronary arteries. The purpose of this study was to analyze whether any clinical features distinguishes patients with these findings from those having coronary arterial lesions. METHODS: The clinical association of myocardial infarction with no significant stenosis of major coronary artery on cineangiogram was analysed retrospectively. The findings on the 13 patients in this group was compared with those of myocardial infartion with significant coronary artery stenosis. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in risk factors, hemodynamic findings of cardiac catheterization and the site of infarction between both groups. However, the patients with no significant stenosis of coronary artery had fewer complications during hospitalization and lesser ST segment change during exercise test before discharge. CONCLUSION: It could be concluded that the acute myocardial infarction with no significant stenosis of coronary arteries would have the better prognosis. The mechanism of the acute myocardial infarction with no significant stenosis of coronary arteries might be studied in the aspect of the coronary artery spasm and the alternation of function of endothelial cell.
Cardiac Catheterization ; Cardiac Catheters ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Coronary Angiography ; Coronary Stenosis* ; Coronary Vessels* ; Endothelial Cells ; Exercise Test ; Hemodynamics ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Infarction ; Myocardial Infarction* ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Spasm

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Bone Marrow* ; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma*

No abstract available.
Drug Therapy* ; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute* ; Nausea* ; Vomiting*

No abstract available.
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell*

No abstract available.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1* ; Genotype* ; Humans ; Korea* ; Thyroid Diseases* ; Thyroid Gland*