1.Digital Infrared Thermographic Imaging(D.I.T.I.) in Herniated Lumbar Disc Patients.
Young Soo KIM ; Yong Eun CHO ; Seong Hoon OH
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 1990;19(10-12):1303-1313
Thermography is a sensitive and reliable method for diagnosis of radiculopathy. Skin temperature alterations of the involved dermatome named thermatone are diagnostic for sensory root involvement in radiculopathy which can be demonstrated by thermography. Digital infrared thermographic imaging system using computer is development and could measure thermal difference more exactly without hazards or discomforts to patient. Authors present 186 cases of thermographic evaluation in herniated lumbar disc disease by digital infrared thermographic imging system and the results are evaluated with literature review.
Diagnosis
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Humans
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Radiculopathy
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Skin Temperature
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Thermography
2.A Case of Newborn Scpsis Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Eun Ha CHOI ; Seong Hee JANG ; Eun Sil DONG ; Young Min AHN
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1995;38(12):1690-1693
No abstract available.
Humans
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Infant, Newborn*
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Streptococcus pneumoniae*
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Streptococcus*
3.Morningness-Eveningness Affects the Depressive Mood and Day Time Sleepiness of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Patient.
Seong Ho KIM ; Eun Jeong JOO ; Kyu Young LEE ; Young Jin KOO ; Eui Joong KIM
Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology 2012;19(2):77-83
OBJECTIVES: Recent studies have reported a correlation between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) and depression. In attempt to verify the suggestion that eveningness is related to depression, we examined the effect of morningness-eveningness on their depressive mood in patinets with OSA. METHODS: The examination was based on the medical records and polysomnography reports of 211 OSA patients. Information was gathered from the patients who filled out the Horne and Ostberg questionnaire (HOQ), profile of mood states-Korean version (K-POMS), and Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS). We compared mean values of K-POMS total, subscales of K-POMS, ESS, and OSA severity variables among the 3 morningness-eveningness groups (morningness, eveningness, and neither groups). Partial correlation analysis was performed between variables and ANCOVA was performed among the 3 groups after adjustment with age and weight. RESULTS: There were significant negative correlations between HOQ and the followings : K-POMS total, POMS-T (tension-anxiety), POMS-D (depression-dejection), POMS-A (anger-hostility), POMS-F (fatigue-inertia), POMS-C (confusion-bewilderment), spontaneous arousal index, average O2 saturation. There were significant positive correlations between HOQ and the followings : POMS-V (vigor-activity), apnea-hypopnea index, respiratory arousal index, snore time. There were significant negative correlations between POMS-D and the followings : HOQ, POMS-V, stage 1 sleep (%), AHI, TAI (total arousal index), oxygen desaturation index, respiratory arousal index, neck circumference, average O2 desaturation, snore time (%). There were significant positive correlations between POMS-D and K-POMS total, POMS-T, POMS-A, POMS-F, POMS-C, sleep latency, stage 2 sleep (%), heart rate, spontaneous arousal index. There were significant differences in K-POMS total, POMS-T, POMS-D, POMS-F, POMS-C, spontaneous arousal index among the three HOQ groups in ANCOVA. CONCLUSION: The depressive correlates of OSA patients might be affected, not by excessive daytime sleepiness or OSA severity indexes, but by eveningness circadian characteristics. It would be important to take into account the morningness-eveningness tendency when we manage the depressive mood of OSA patients.
Animals
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Arousal
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Circadian Rhythm
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Depression
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Disorders of Excessive Somnolence
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Heart Rate
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Horns
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Humans
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Medical Records
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Neck
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Oxygen
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Polysomnography
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
4.A Case of Congenital Systemic Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease.
Kong Sik KIM ; Eun Young KWAK ; Ho Seong YOO ; Sang Gi PARK ; Young Bong PARK
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1990;33(2):220-224
No abstract available.
Cytomegalovirus Infections*
5.Determinants of Left Ventricular Mass in Healthy Adults : A Study Using Echocardiography and 24 Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.
Ho Choon JEON ; Young Kwon KIM ; Kyeong Young KIM ; Ji Young KIM ; Sung Eun CHA ; Seong Wook CHO ; In SOHN
Korean Circulation Journal 1995;25(4):811-819
BACKGROUND: Echocardiographically detected left ventricular(LV) hypertrophy is a risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. A better understanding of the determinants of LV mass may aid in strategies directed toward the promary and secondary prevention of LV hypertrophy and its consequences. Previous studies have reported that male gender, arterial blood pressure(BP), obesity, age, aortic valvular stenosis, dietary sodium, endocrine factors, and physical activity are positively correlated with LV mass. Of these determinants male gender, hypertension, and obesity are well known but age and blood pressure in healthy adults are controversial. To assess the determinants of LV mass, the relation of 2-dimensional(2D) echocardiographically determined LV mass to body mass inedx(BMI), age, sex, casual BP, and 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure(ABP : systolic, diastolic, and mean BP of 24 hour, day-time, and night-time) was examined in healthy adults. METHODS: The study population consisted of 200 healthy adults who were normotensive, nonobese, and had no evidence of cardiovascular disease(range in age from 20 to 69 years, five decades, 20 men and 20 women per each decade). LV mass was derived from area length method measurements obtained by 2D echocardiography and corrected for height. ABP monitoring was performend over 24 hour(divided into day-time(6am-10pm) and night-time(10pm-6am)periods) with 30 minute inervals. RESULTS: 1) BMI was significantly and independently related to LV mass corrected for height (p<0.001, partial R2=0.31 in men and 0.43 in women). An increase of BMI by 1 kg/m2increased LV mass corrected for height by 1.9g/m in men and 2.0g/m in women. 2) Age was significantly and independently related to LV mass corrected for height(p<0.001, partial R2=0.15 in men and 0.17 in women). The increments of Lv mass corrected for height per decade were 2.1 g/m in men and 3.4 g/m in women. 3) Gender was significantly and independently related to LV mass corrected for height(p<0.001, partial R2=0.12), which was greater in men than in women by 6.34g/m. 4) Casual Bp and 24 hour ABP were not significantly associated with LV mass corrected for height in total population and women, and 24 hour systolic BP was significantly related to LV mass corrected for height only in men(p<0.001) with weak partial R2(0.05). CONCLUSION: BMI, age, and male gender were statistically significant and independent correlates of LV mass corrected for height(p<0.001). Maintenance of ideal body weight and normal BP, weight reduction in obese persons and BP control inhypertensive patients may contribute to the primary and secondary prevention of LV hypertrophy and its sequalae.
Adult*
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Blood Pressure
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Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory*
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Constriction, Pathologic
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Echocardiography*
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Female
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Humans
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Hypertension
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Hypertrophy
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Ideal Body Weight
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Male
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Mortality
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Motor Activity
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Obesity
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Risk Factors
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Secondary Prevention
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Sodium, Dietary
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Weight Loss
6.Phospholipase A2 Contributes to Hemorrhage-induced Acute Lung Injury Through Neutrophilic Respiratory Burst.
Yoo Suck JANG ; Seong Eun KIM ; Sang Hoon JHEON ; Tae Rim SHIN ; Young Man LEE
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2001;51(6):503-516
BACKGROUND: The present study was carried out in association with neutrophilic respiratory burst in the lung in order to clarify the pathogenesis of acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS) following acute severe hemorrhage. Because oxidative stress has been suggested as one of the principal factors causing tissue injury, the role of free radicals from neutrophils was assessed in acute hemorrhage-induced lung injury. METHOD: In Sprague-Dawley rats, hemorrhagic shock was induced by withdrawing blood(20 ml/kg of B.W) for 5 min and the hypotensive state was sustained for 60 min. To determine the mechanism and role of oxidative stress associated with phospholipase A2(PLA2) by neutrophils, the level of lung leakage, pulmonary myeloperoxidase(MPO), and the pulmonary PLA2 were measured. In addition, the production of free radicals was assessed in isolated neutrophils by cytochemical electron microscopy in the lung. RESULTS: In hypotensive shock-induced acute lung injury, the pulmonary MPO, the level of lung leakage and the production of free radicals were higher. The inhibition of PLA2 with mepacrine decreased the pulmonary MPO, level of lung leakage and the production of free radicals from neutrophils. CONCLUSION: A. neutrophilic respiratory burst is responsible for the oxidative stress causing acute lung injury followed by acute, severe hemorrhage. PLA2 activation is the principal cause of this oxidative stress.
Acute Lung Injury*
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Free Radicals
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Hemorrhage
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Lung
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Lung Injury
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Microscopy, Electron
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Neutrophils*
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Oxidative Stress
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Phospholipases A2*
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Phospholipases*
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Quinacrine
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Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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Respiratory Burst*
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Shock, Hemorrhagic
7.A Case of Spindle Cell Thymoma with Spinal Cord Compression.
Jong In BYUN ; Sang Min SEONG ; Kyung Tai WHANG ; Eun Deok CHANG ; Young Hee JEE
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1988;31(9):1237-1242
No abstract available.
Spinal Cord Compression*
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Spinal Cord*
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Thymoma*
8.A Case of Prader-Willi Syndrome with Diabetes Mellitus.
Hee Ran CHOI ; Eun Ha CHOI ; Seong Hee JANG ; Young Min AHN
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1994;37(4):565-572
Prader-Willi syndrome is characterized by infantile hypotonia, mental retardation, hyperhagia, hypogonadism and obesity. Approximately 60% of all PLW syndrome show an interstitial deletion of chromosome 15, 37% have apparently normal chromosome, and 3.6% have a variety of other abnormalities involving chromosome 15. Diabetes mellitus has been considered a component of PLW syndrome and the incidence is about 7%. We experienced a 17-year-old female who revealed mental retardation, hypogonadism, obesity, and non-insulin dependent type DM, compatible with Prader-Willi syndrome.
Adolescent
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15
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Diabetes Mellitus*
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Female
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Humans
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Hypogonadism
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Incidence
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Intellectual Disability
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Muscle Hypotonia
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Obesity
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Prader-Willi Syndrome*
9.The Effect of Melatonin on Mouse Jejunal Crypt Cell Survival and Apoptosis.
Jin Oh KANG ; Eun Young HA ; Hyung Hwan BAIK ; Yong Ho CHO ; Seong Eon HONG
The Journal of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 2000;18(1):59-66
PURPOSE: To evaluate protective mechanism of melatonin against radiation damage and its relationship with apoptosis in mouse jejunum. MATERIALS AND METHODS:' 168 mice were divided into 28 groups according to radiation dose and melatonin treatment. To analysis crypt survival, microcolony survival assay was done according to Withers an (l Elkind's method. To analysis apoptosis, TUNEL assay was done according to Labet-Moleur's method. RESULTS: Radiation protection effect of melatonin was demonstrated by crypt survival assay and its effect was stronger in high radiation dose area. Apoptosis index with 8 Gy irradiation was 18.4% in control group and 16.5% in melatonin treated group. After 18 Gy, apoptosis index was 17.2% in control group and 15.4% in melatonin treated group. Apoptosis index did not show statistically significant difference between melatonin treated group and control group. CONCLUSION: Melatonin shows clear protective effect in mouse jejunum against radiation damage but it.', protective effect seems not to be related with apoptosis protection effect.
Animals
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Apoptosis*
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Cell Survival*
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In Situ Nick-End Labeling
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Jejunum
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Melatonin*
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Mice*
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Radiation Protection
10.Retroperitoneal Mucinous Tumor: Report of two Cases.
Eun Kyung KIM ; Seong Ran HONG ; Hy Sook KIM ; Young Hyeh KO ; Jung Dal LEE
Korean Journal of Pathology 1992;26(6):632-634
Primary retroperitoneal mucinous tumor is very rare. In the worldwide literature, only 14 cases have been reported. Herein, we report two cases of retroperitoneal mucinous tumor found at laparotomy. The patients were females, aged 24 and 21 years, respectively. They had bilateral normal ovaries. Histologically, one was mucinous cystadenoma and the other showed borderline histology. The connective tissue wall resembling ovarian stroma was noted in one case. The pathogenesis was discussed.
Female
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Humans