No abstract available.
Mortality*

The neuromuacular blocking effects of the repeated bolus injection and continuous injection of vecuronium have been compared in 20 patients by means of evoked twitch tension. Group I received a loading dose (0.08 mg/kg) of vecuronium and followed by maintenance doae (0.02 mg/kg) when twitch tension had recovered to 25% of control. Group II received a loading doses (0. 08mg/kg) of vecuronium plus a continuous infusion delivering 0.06 mg/kg/hr. Anesthesia was maintained with nitrous oxide, oxygen and 1.5% enflurane. The neuromuscular blocking effect were reversed by the neostigmine 1.0 mg and robinul 0.2 mg when twitch tension had recovered 25% control in both groups near the end of operation. With repeated injection of vecuronium (group I), the duration of blockade of 25% recovery was 21.6+/-4.2 minutes and the recovery times from 25% to 75% was 6.8+/-1.9 minutes The continuous infusion of vecuronium (group II) produced consistent neuromuscular blockade at the average level of 90% twitch depression. The times from the end of infusion to 25% and fr,om 25% to 75% are averaged 16.0+/-2.5 and 4.2+/-0.7 minutes respectively. The reeovery index was more rapid in infusion group than maintenance group (P<0.05).
Anesthesia ; Depression ; Enflurane ; Humans ; Neostigmine ; Neuromuscular Blockade ; Nitrous Oxide ; Oxygen ; Vecuronium Bromide*

No abstract available.
Neuroma*

No abstract available.
Adult* ; Humans ; Molecular Epidemiology* ; Oxalobacter formigenes* ; Seoul*

BACKGROUND: An Epidemiological study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of E. vermicularis infestation among children in kindergartens. METHODS: A total of 247 cellotape anal swab specimens from kindergarten children in Inchon were examined for E. vermicularis eggs. Each specimen was collected in the morning. RESULTS: Out of 247 specimens from two kindergartens in Inchon, E. vermicularis eggs were detected in 168 specimens, the egg detection rate being 68.0%. The egg detection rates in boys and girls were 63.9% out of 133 children and 72.8% out of 114 children, respectively. The egg detection rate in girls was higher than that of boys. The egg detection rates by age group was 65.5%(age 3), S7.4%(age 4), 72.0%(age 5) and 75.4%(age 6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Enterobiasis is a cosmopolitan infection. Surveys for children of kindergartens indicate that E.vermicularis is probably the most widely distributed human helminth, its incidence varing from 59.2% to 73.8% in groups studied since pinworm infection is frequently a familial problem that infestation of the household frequently results in reinfection. Careful washing of hands and cleansing of fingernails before meals and after use of the toilet are the most practical measures, all member of family should be treated simultaneously when practicable.
Child* ; Eggs ; Enterobiasis ; Enterobius* ; Epidemiologic Studies ; Family Characteristics ; Female ; Hand ; Helminths ; Humans ; Incheon ; Incidence ; Meals ; Nails ; Ovum ; Prevalence

No abstract available.
Aspergillosis*

No abstract available.
Resuscitation* ; Shock, Hemorrhagic*

Nonfunctioning carcinoma of adrenal cortex is a rare disease and approximately 120 patients with nonfunctional adrenal cortical carcinoma have been reported in the world literature since first description of Rolienston and Marks in 1898. We report a case of nonfunctioning adrenal cortical carcinoma in a 47-year-old female patient, which was suspected by clinical investigation and confirmed by exploration and microscopic examination.
Adrenal Cortex* ; Adrenocortical Carcinoma ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Rare Diseases

Nonfunctioning carcinoma of adrenal cortex is a rare disease and approximately 120 patients with nonfunctional adrenal cortical carcinoma have been reported in the world literature since first description of Rolienston and Marks in 1898. We report a case of nonfunctioning adrenal cortical carcinoma in a 47-year-old female patient, which was suspected by clinical investigation and confirmed by exploration and microscopic examination.
Adrenal Cortex* ; Adrenocortical Carcinoma ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Rare Diseases

Multiple cerebral infarction developed in a 36-year-old woman with adenocarcinoma of the right lung with direct cardiac invasion. Neurological examination and brain MRI showed findings of ordinary infarction. Transesophageal echocardiography showed left atrial pedunculated mass which was the potential source of embolism. We report a rare case who had such multiple spontaneous tumor emboli large enough to result in clinically detectable cerebral infarction.
Adenocarcinoma ; Adult ; Brain ; Cerebral Infarction* ; Echocardiography, Transesophageal ; Embolism ; Female ; Humans ; Infarction ; Lung ; Lung Neoplasms ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Neoplastic Cells, Circulating ; Neurologic Examination