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Abdominal Injuries*

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Hemorrhoids*

Recently, the radionuclide angiocardiographic study had been enhanced by rapid development of gamma scintillation camera and computer system, and utilized as noninvasive diagnostic measurement of heart disease. We obtained the following results by the radionuclide angiocardiography with human serum albumin tagged with 99m-Technetium from two groups. One of them was congenital heart disease group(n=50, ventricular septal defect 20, atrial septal defect 6, pulmonary stenosis 2, tetralogy of Fallot 10, truncus arteriousus 1, transposition of great artery 1, patent ductus arteriosus 10) operated from Oct. 1984 to Jun. 1985, and the other was the normal human group(n=10) as control. 1) In the cases of left to right shunt, Qp/Qs values were calculated by th gamma variet fit curve. The preoperative values ranged from 1.441-3.00, the postoperative values were normal among all the patients except one(atrial septal defect, postop. Qp/Qs 2.335). 2) In the cases of right to left shunt, Qp/Qs values showed no apparent change between pre. andpostoperative period, possibly due to still remained collateral circulation and hardly obtained lower value(less than QP/QS 1.0) by computer system, But the double peak curve was noticed in the left ventricular time activity curve, which indicate right to left shunt, disappeared after the surgery, suggesting shunt closed. 3) The ejection fraction of left ventricle was obtained from the congential cardiac patients, ranged 0.38-0.65 before the surgery and 0.41-0.67 after the surgery. 4) The circulation time calculated from the first-pass radionuclide angiocardiography, ranged normal in the most congenital cardiac patients, but prolonged in the severe pulmonary hypertension.
Angiocardiography ; Arteries ; Collateral Circulation ; Computer Systems ; Ductus Arteriosus, Patent ; Gamma Cameras ; Heart Defects, Congenital* ; Heart Diseases ; Heart Septal Defects, Atrial ; Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular ; Heart Ventricles ; Hemodynamics* ; Humans ; Hypertension, Pulmonary ; Pulmonary Valve Stenosis ; Serum Albumin ; Tetralogy of Fallot

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Fibroma*

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Acromegaly* ; Adolescent* ; Humans ; Neurofibromatoses*

Nine species of genus Ganoderma collected in Korea and abroad including Ganoderma lucidum complex and G. lucidum were compared by investigating growth characteristics. In the bottle culture, the mycelial growth periods of G. lucidum from Taiwan and North America was 26 to 30 days compared to that of Korean G. lucidum, which was 30 to 32 days. Cultivation period of Taiwan and North American isolates was 30 to 32 days which were 11 to 17 days shorter than those of Korean isolates. Biological efficiency of Taiwan and North American isolates were ranged from 3.3 to 5.5%, which were apparently lower than that of Korean isolates which ranged from 6.2 to 9.4%. Korean isolates had longer stipes(15~40 mm) and more number of pileus(4~6/bottle) than those of Taiwan and North American isolates. The G. lucidum isolates collected from Korea will be regarded as the independent species from the G. lucidum collected from Taiwan and North America since, the G. lucidum from Korea showed much different growth characteristics in various aspects compared to the G. lucidum from Taiwan and North America.
Fruiting Bodies, Fungal ; Ganoderma* ; Korea ; North America ; Reishi* ; Taiwan

Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) is a rare disease characterized by fever, hepatosplenomegaly, cytopenia and non-malignant lymphohistiocytic infiltration with hemophagocytosis in reticulendothelial organs. We experienced three cases of FHL in identical male twins and their younger brother who presented with fever and severe hepatosplenomegaly. Cytopenia, elevated serum transaminase and low serum albumin levels, hypertriglyceridemia were common laboratory findings of them. One of them showed markedly decreased phytohemagglutinin induced lymphocyte proliferation and reversed CD4/CD8 ratio (0.52) in flowcytometric lymphocyte subset analysis. Aspirate of bone marrow revealed typical features consistent with FHL in two of them. In spite of recent therapeutic approaches, none of them survived.
Bone Marrow ; Fever ; Humans ; Hypertriglyceridemia ; Lymphocyte Subsets ; Lymphocytes ; Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic* ; Male ; Rare Diseases ; Serum Albumin ; Siblings

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Acoustics* ; Vocal Cord Paralysis* ; Vocal Cords*

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