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Clubfoot*

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Cervix Uteri* ; Female

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Cesarean Section* ; Female ; Pregnancy

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Child* ; Heart Diseases* ; Heart* ; Humans ; Mass Screening*

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Acute Kidney Injury* ; Back Pain*

Polyarteritis nodosa is systemic necrotizing vasculitis of medium and small-sized arteries and results in variable manifestations due to ischemia of the involving organs. Diagnosis can either be made pathologically by demonstrating necrotizing vasculitis of arteries or angiographycally by demonstrating small arterial aneurysm. We experienced a case of PAN with dilated cardiomyopathy, confirmed by clinical feature, renal biopsy, angiography and echocardiography.
Aneurysm ; Angiography ; Arteries ; Biopsy ; Cardiomyopathy, Dilated* ; Diagnosis ; Echocardiography ; Ischemia ; Polyarteritis Nodosa* ; Vasculitis

Dubin-Johnson Syndrome is a form of benign, familial idiopathic jaundice presenting with chronic intermittentconjugated hyperbilirubinnmia and a melamin-like pigment has been found in the parenchymal liver cells. This disorder is rarely diagnosed in the neonatal period. We report a case of Dubin-Johnson syndrome presenting with neonatal cholestasis.
Cholestasis ; Jaundice ; Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic* ; Liver

Dubin-Johnson Syndrome is a form of benign, familial idiopathic jaundice presenting with chronic intermittentconjugated hyperbilirubinnmia and a melamin-like pigment has been found in the parenchymal liver cells. This disorder is rarely diagnosed in the neonatal period. We report a case of Dubin-Johnson syndrome presenting with neonatal cholestasis.
Cholestasis ; Jaundice ; Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic* ; Liver

PURPOSE: To compare the clinical outcomes of recession, anterior transposition, and myectomy of overacting inferior oblique (IO) muscles. METHODS: A total of 69 patients, (92 eyes) who underwent recession (38 eyes), anterior transposition (25 eyes), or myectomy (29 eyes) for overacting IO muscles in one or both eyes, were evaluated retrospectively with a follow-up period of 12.8 months (3~60 months). RESULTS: We applied a grading system with a 5-point scale to the IO muscle. (0 to 4 for IO muscle overaction and 0 to -4 for IO underaction) The average preoperative IOOA was +2.13+/-0.94 in recession, +2.35+/-0.88 in anterior transposition, and +2.04+/-0.81 in myectomy. These were reduced to +2.04+/-0.81, +2.35+/-0.88, and -0.02+/-0.23 respectively. The average preoperative and postoperative hyperdeviation in primary gaze was 10.25+/-4.54PD to 2.37+/-0.98PD in recession, 9.02+/-4.53PD to 3.64+/-1.23PD in anterior transposition, and 7.25+/-3.21PD to 0.67+/-0.51PD in myectomy. CONCLUSIONS: Recession, anterior transposition, and myectomy of the IO muscles were all effective in IOOA and hyperdeviation, and showed continuing drift towards orthotropia.
Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Muscles ; Retrospective Studies

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative importance among various biological and environmental factors on refractive errors. Various factors such as diseases, health related behavior such as drinking, smoking and exercise, as well as dietary factors were considered as a possible determinant. Surveys of 492 residents over 20 years of age in Kuri city were conducted during 1998. The survey included a refractive error test adopting a autokerato-refractometer, dietary survey using a 24 hour recall method, disease survey including blood and other diagnosis tests, and a health behavior survey using questionnaires with variables of smoking, drinking, and exercise. A stepwise logistic regression analysis was adopted to analyse the relative importance among independent variables of health behaviors, disease, and dietary factors on ametropias. As a result, in the case of myopia, liver dysfunction appeared to be the most important factors followed by the health related behavior of smoking and exercise as the second most important factors. Nutrient factors such as carotene and protein appeared to be the third most important factors. Similar results had been shown in the case of the hyperopia. In summary, liver dysfunction and the health related behaviors of drinking and smoking appeared to be more influential factors on abnormal eye sight of myopia and hyperopia than dietary factors.
Carotenoids ; Diagnosis ; Drinking ; Health Behavior ; Hyperopia ; Liver Diseases ; Logistic Models ; Myopia ; Refractive Errors* ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Surveys and Questionnaires