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Acidosis, Renal Tubular* ; Captopril*

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Blood Transfusion* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature*

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Urachus*

Angiomyoma is a benign soft tissue tumor that arises from the smooth muscle layer of blood vessels in the deeplayers of the dermis, or in subcutaneous tissue. It occurs as a well-encapsulated solitary mass, most of which areless than 2cm in diameter. Some patients complain of pain with or without tenderness. This tumor has apredilection for the lower extremities of middle-aged females. MRI findings of angiomyoma of the extremities haverarely been reported, and we describe these findings in two cases of angiomyoma of the hand and foot.
Angiomyoma* ; Blood Vessels ; Dermis ; Extremities* ; Female ; Foot ; Hand ; Humans ; Leiomyoma ; Lower Extremity ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Muscle, Smooth ; Subcutaneous Tissue

PURPOSE: This study attempted to understand patients' and nurses' perspectives on the priority of rehabilitation nursing services using Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA). METHODS: This study used descriptive research design. Data were collected from 121 patients and 144 nurses using self-reported questionnaires. Statistical analysis included an independent t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and IPA conducted using SPSS/WIN 21.0 version. RESULTS: There were no statistical differences between the patients' and nurses' mean scores on perceptions of the importance (t=-0.83, p=.409) and performance (t=-0.32, p=.751) of rehabilitation nursing services. The IPA matrix showed a difference between patients and nurses in terms of their perceived priority of nursing services. Regarding the perception of patients, "helping a patient to continue to practice bedside physiotherapy and occupational therapy", "providing information on the proper care agency and community resources", and "providing education for the prevention of complications" fell in the "concetrate here" area (2nd quadrant). CONCLUSION: The results showed that the priorities of patients and nurses did not match in terms of some of the rehabilitation nursing services. Thus, rehabilitation nursing services need to be provided based on the patients' needs. Allocation of resources for the service items that fell in the "concentrate here" area of the IPA need be reconsidered for the quality in nursing care.
Education ; Humans ; Nursing Care ; Nursing Services ; Rehabilitation Nursing* ; Rehabilitation* ; Research Design ; Resource Allocation

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of oncostatin M receptor (OSMR) in the Korean population. METHODS: Retrospective case-control study was done. Eighty-five patients with PTC and 287 controls were studied. One missense SNP (rs2278329, Asp553Asn) and one promoter SNP (rs2292016, -100 G/T) of the OSMR gene were genotyped by direct sequencing. Genetic data were analyzed using the SNPStats, Helixtree, and SNPAnalyzer Pro. PTC patients were dichotomized and compared with respect to the clinicopathologic characteristics. RESULTS: There was no association between genotypes and allele frequencies of OSMR SNPs (rs2278329 and rs2292016) and PTC susceptibility. SNP rs2278329 was significantly associated with tumor size (dominant model; P=0.028; odds ratio [OR], 2.71; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.12 to 6.57). The A allele was higher in sizes large than 1 cm (32.5% vs. 16.7%; P=0.018; OR, 2.41; 95% CI, 1.17 to 4.98). Regarding the number of tumors, we found no significant association with genotype, however, the A allele was higher in patients with multifocaltiy (33.3% vs. 19.1%; P=0.040; OR, 2.12; 95% CI, 1.03 to 4.34). CONCLUSION: The results suggest that OSMR polymorphism rs2278329 is associated with clinicopathologic characteristics of the tumor growth and multifocality development.
Alleles ; Case-Control Studies ; Factor IX ; Gene Frequency ; Genotype ; Humans ; Odds Ratio ; Oncostatin M ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Receptors, Oncostatin M ; Retrospective Studies ; Thyroid Gland ; Thyroid Neoplasms

OBJECTIVE: The aim was to evaluate whether the differences of PG concentration in follicular and peritoneal fluid during preovulatory phase exist between the women with and without endometriosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-three patients with endometriosis, 8 were stage I-II and 15 were stage III-IV, and another 23 patients without endometriosis were undergone laparotomy during late follicular phase. Peritoneal fluid from 46 patients and follicular fluid from 42 patients were obtained, and these samples were analyzed double times for PGF2alpha, PGE2 and estradiol. RESULTS: The mean level of PGF2alphain the peritoneal fluid was significantly higher in the group with endometriosis than in the control(P=0.0293), especially more significant in stage I-II endometriosis. Although there was no significant difference of PGF2alphaconcentration in the follicular fluid between the groups, the stage III-IV endometriosis group showed slightly higher PGF2alphalevel than both the stage I-II group and the control(P=0.0604). And also, there was significant positive correlation with the level of PGF2alphaand estradiol in the follicular fluid only in the endometriosis group(r=0.4988, P=0.0154), not in the control. However, there was no difference in the level of PGE2 and estradiol in the peritoneal or follicular fluid between the groups. CONCLUSION: Some alterations of PGF2alphalevel exist in the women with endometriosis. These are significantly higher PGF2alphalevel in peritoneal fluid with mild endometriosis and slightly higher PGF2alphalevels in follicular fluid with extensive endometriosis during preovulatory phase, which suggest that PGF2alphamay play some roles in subfertility associated with endometriosis.
Ascitic Fluid* ; Dinoprost* ; Dinoprostone ; Endometriosis* ; Estradiol ; Female ; Follicular Fluid ; Follicular Phase* ; Humans ; Infertility ; Laparotomy

Malignant schwannomas arising from the peripheral nerve sheath of the foot are very rare. We encountered a case of malignant schwannoma of the great toe in a 60-year-old woman with painful swelling and exudative ulceration, and report the findings of MR imaging and review the literature.
Female ; Foot ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Middle Aged ; Neurilemmoma* ; Peripheral Nerves ; Toes* ; Ulcer

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the risk factors for hematoma enlargement(HE) in the patients with spontaneous putaminal hemorrhage. METHODS: Among the 620 patients with putaminal hemorrhage admitted to our hospital during the period of 1990-2000, sixty patients(9.7%) had HE on the second computed tomographic(CT) scan at the interval of mean 38 hours after attack(range 1.8-168 hours). Clinical features and CT findings of these 60 patients with HE were compared with those of the remaining 560 patients without HE. RESULTS: Multivariate logistic regressional analysis revealed that the independent risk factors for HE were CT finding showing the separation of hematoma(odds ratio[OR] 3.5, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.7-7.3, p=0.0006) or the hypodensity around or within hematoma(OR 2.5, 95% CI 1.2-5.6, p=0.0194), alcoholism(OR 4.8, 95% CI 2.0-11.7, p=0.0004), hematoma volume of 20-39cc(OR 2.54, 95% CI 1.0-6.3, p=0.0424), Glasgow Coma Scale(GCS) score of 8-11(OR 3.1, 95% CI 1.4-6.9, p=0.0046) and glutamic-pyruvic transaminase>50 IU/L(OR 6.54, 95% CI 2.1-20.5, p= 0.0013). CONCLUSION: Alcoholism and liver dysfunction appear to increase the risk of HE in putaminal hemorrhage. Particularly, careful observation for HE is needed in the patients who are GCS score of 8-11 at the time of admission, who have hematoma volume of 20-39cc and the CT finding showing the separation of hematoma or the hypodensity around or within hematoma.
Alcoholism ; Coma ; Hematoma ; Humans ; Liver Diseases ; Logistic Models ; Putaminal Hemorrhage* ; Risk Factors*

PURPOSE: Many burn patients have been suffered from sequelae of burn injury (itching, pain, heating sense, etc.). The treatment of those symptoms was not successful even though they are approached multiply. Some patients depend on folk remedies. We try to find the effectiveness of microneedling procedure (dermastamp(R)) which is used for esthetic purpose. METHODS: 25 patients were included who had been treated with the skin massage therapy from September 2008 to March 2009. They received the dermastamp(R) procedure once a week and surveyed from 2 months after procedure. The survey items were itching, pain, tightness, firmness, shape of scar, joint deformities. We divided the severity of symptoms into digit scale form 0 (no symptoms) to 10 (too severe to sleep) and the severity was estimated by patients. Statistical method was Wilcoxon signed rank test. RESULTS: The patient group consisted of 8 males and 17 females. The mean age was 22.2+/-13.8 years old. The average time that felt the effectiveness was 4.4+/-2.3 times. Statistically significant responses showed in itching, firmness (P<0.05), pain and tightness (P<0.01). Improvement of the shape of scar and joint deformities were not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Even now, no definite treatment against the sequelae of burn injury. Multimodalities of treatment in sequelae of burn injury are using and dermastamp(R) can be an additional method for sequelae of burn injury.
Burns ; Cicatrix ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Female ; Heating ; Hot Temperature ; Humans ; Joints ; Male ; Massage ; Medicine, Traditional ; Pruritus ; Skin