1.Degree of Hysterectomy Patients' Educational Needs and Nurses' Educational Performance on Sexual Health Education.
Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 2004;10(2):99-108
PURPOSE: This study was to serve the sexual health education of the hysterectomy patients and to get the basic data of the nursing intervention on sexual health education. Sexual health education for the patients is an independent function as well as a professional responsibility of nurses. METHOD: The subjects were composed of 108 post-op patients who had undergone doing a hysterectomy 5 to 10 days previously and 101 nurses at OBGY hospitals. For data analysis, the study executed a frequency, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan Multiple Range test and Spearman's rho correlation coefficient, in accordance with the purpose of the study using SPSS Win 10.0. RESULT: Mean score of the needs degree of sexual health education was 3.30 point. The need for education was highest in the sexual health promotion with education related to sexual interaction the lowest. Mean score of the nurses' teaching performance degree of sexual health education was 1.80 point. The nurses' teaching performance was highest in the sexual health promotion. There exist significant correlations between the degree of patients' educational needs and the degree of nurses' teaching performance on physiosexual (rho=-.667, p< .05), psychosexual (rho=.762, p< .05), sexual interaction (rho=.667, p< .05) respectively. There was no significant difference on sexual health promotion (rho=.359, p> .05). CONCLUSION: The degree of sexual health education needs of hysterectomy patients was very high. Therefore, continuous nursing education program should be developed and provided for the promotion of the performance of sexual health education as the nursing professional role.
Education*
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Education, Nursing
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Humans
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Hysterectomy*
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Nursing
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Professional Role
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Reproductive Health*
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Statistics as Topic
2.Biliary Tract & Pancreas; A Case of Cholangiocarcinoma Suggested as Developing in the Patient with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
Sun Young YI ; Mi Seung SHIN ; Hye Kyung JUNG
Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 1997;17(1):99-104
Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a chronic disease of unknown cause, characterized by inflammation and fibrosis of the biliary tree with diffuse multifocal stricture formation. With increasing knowledge of primary sclerosing cholangitis, it is now recognized that in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease, cholangiocarcinoma is a complication of primary sclerosing cholangitis. We recently experienced a case of 41 year old female patient who had Crohns disease associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis and cholangioearcinoma. We report a case of primary sclerosing cholangitis with cholangiocarcinoma with literature review.
Adult
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Biliary Tract*
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Cholangiocarcinoma*
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Cholangitis, Sclerosing*
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Chronic Disease
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Constriction, Pathologic
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Crohn Disease
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Female
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Fibrosis
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Humans
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Inflammation
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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
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Pancreas*
3.Chromosomal analysis of abortus chorionic villi in case of recurrent spontaneous abortions.
Hye Ran HWANG ; Seong Sook SEO ; Shin Young LEE ; Jung Hye KIM ; Sook Ja PARK
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1993;36(12):3897-3904
No abstract available.
Abortion, Spontaneous*
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Chorion*
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Chorionic Villi*
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
4.Detection of nasopharyngeal carriages in children by multiplex reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction.
Ji Hye SHIN ; Hye Young HAN ; Sun Young KIM
Korean Journal of Pediatrics 2009;52(12):1358-1363
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic nasopharyngeal carriages in children using a multiplex reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (mRT-PCR) assay kit. METHODS: We obtained nasopharyngeal swabs from 33 children without any underlying disease from July 25 to July 28, 2008. The children were free from the signs of respiratory tract infections at the time of sampling. DNA was extracted from the swabs and subjected to multiplex RT-PCR using a primer set for the detection of pneumococci (Seeplex(R) PneumoBacter ACE Detection Seegene, Seoul, Korea). The amplified PCR products were separated on 2% agarose gels and stained with either ethidium bromide or screen tape system (Lab901 Scotland, UK). RESULTS: A total of 33 children (male, 15 female, 18) aged between 3.2 and 16.3 (median, 8.2) years were included in this study. The mRT-PCR detected colonized bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae, Hemophilus influenzae, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and Bordetella pertussis) in 30 children (90.9%). Of these, 13 children (39.4%) showed more than 2 bacteria: 12 children were positive for 2 bacteria (S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae) and 1 child was positive for 3 bacteria (S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and C. pneumoniae). CONCLUSION: mRT-PCR was found to be a sensitive tool for the detection of asymptomatic nasopharyngeal carriages. Clinical significances of the bacteria detected by mRT-PCR will have to be evaluated in the future.
Aged
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Bacteria
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Bordetella
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Child
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Chlamydophila pneumoniae
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Colon
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DNA
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Ethidium
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Female
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Gels
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Haemophilus influenzae
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Humans
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Influenza, Human
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Nasopharynx
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Pneumonia
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Prevalence
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Respiratory Tract Infections
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Scotland
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Sepharose
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
5.Effect of Etanercept on Steroid Refractory Graft-versus-host Disease in Children.
Hye Young HAN ; Ji Hye SHIN ; Sun Young KIM
Korean Journal of Hematology 2009;44(4):212-219
BACKGROUND: Etanercept is a recombinant human soluble tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) receptor fusion protein that inhibits TNF-alpha, a major mediator in the pathogenesis of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The purpose of our study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of etanercept therapy in children with steroid-refractory acute GVHD (aGVHD) (n=5) and chronic GVHD (cGVHD) (n=3). METHODS: Five males and 3 females were enrolled and their median age was 14.4 years (range, 2.1~18.8). Etanercept 0.4 mg/kg per dose (maximum dose, 25 mg) was given subcutaneously twice weekly for 4 weeks followed by 0.4 mg/kg per dose (maximum dose, 25 mg) weekly for 4 weeks. At the time of initiation of etanercept, 5 patients had aGVHD grade III to IV (III=4, IV=1) and 3 patients had moderate to severe cGVHD (moderate=1, severe=2). RESULTS: Overall, 6 of 8 patients (75%) responded to the treatment with etanercept, including 5 patients with aGVHD [n=3 complete response (CR), n=2 partial response (PR)] and 1 patient with cGVHD [n=1 PR, n=2 no response (NR)]. Clinical responses were most commonly seen in patients with refractory gut aGVHD. CMV reactivation occurred in 2 patients, bacterial infection in 1 patient, and fungal infection in 1 patient. CONCLUSION: Our preliminary data indicate that etanercept is well tolerated and can induce a high response rate in patients with steroid refractory aGVHD, particularly in the setting of intestinal involvement.
Bacterial Infections
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Child
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Female
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Graft vs Host Disease
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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Humans
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Immunoglobulin G
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Male
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Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor
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Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
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Etanercept
6.Hypersensitivity myocarditi caused by ceused by cafadroxil.
Tae Rim SHIN ; Hae Young CHOI ; Yoon Hye CHANG ; Young Joo CHO
Korean Journal of Allergy 1997;17(2):186-191
Hypersensitivity myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium usually related to drug allergy. The clinical manifestation may be nonspecific, and the diagnosis is seldom suspected or established during the life. So in most of the reported patients, the diagnosis was made at autopsy. Although, retrospectively, more than 90% of the patients described have had clinically recognizable cardiac involvement before death, tole clinical suspicion of hypersensitivity myocarditis is rare. The presence of nonspecific cardiac finding in a patient receiving any drug associated with hypersensitivity should alert the clinician to the possibility of drug related myocarditis. We experienced a case of hypersensitivity myocarditis accompanying allergic skin lesion in a 58 years old man with a history of taking cefadroxil. Fortunately, the outcome was favorable, therefore we do not have histologic confirmation of the diagnosis.
Autopsy
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Cefadroxil
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Diagnosis
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Drug Hypersensitivity
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Humans
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Hypersensitivity*
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Middle Aged
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Myocarditis
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Myocardium
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Retrospective Studies
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Skin
7.Rapid and Simple Screening of Mitochondrial DNA in Koreans by the Analysis of Highly Variable Control Region SNPs.
Eun Hye KIM ; Kyoung Jin SHIN ; Hye Yeon KIM ; Su Jeong PARK ; Woo Ick YANG ; Hwan Young LEE
Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 2013;37(4):183-190
Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is generally used to identify highly degraded forensic samples, particularly when the extracted DNA is not sufficient for nuclear DNA analysis. However, direct sequencing, the most widely used mtDNA analysis method, is laborious and time-consuming, and precludes the simultaneous analysis of many samples. Here, we describe a rapid and simple screening method for mtDNA analysis in Koreans using single base extension (SBE) methods. Sixteen highly polymorphic mtDNA SNPs from the control region were selected, and a multiplex SBE system was constructed to analyze them. Because the developed system consists of two duplex PCRs, which produce small amplicons with fewer than 270 bp, it works well with highly degraded samples such as old skeletal remains. Using this multiplex SBE system, 145 different haplotypes were expected to be observed from 593 unrelated Koreans. Seventy-three haplotypes were expected to be observed only once, and the most frequent haplotype was expected to occur 80 times. Since the mean number of pairwise differences was estimated to be 4.55, the developed system could be useful to exclude samples that do not match evidence and reference samples. Therefore, the multiplex SBE system used in this study will be a useful tool to analyze many samples simultaneously and to efficiently screen out non-matching mtDNA sequences in forensic casework.
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
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DNA
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DNA, Mitochondrial*
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Haplotypes
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Humans
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Mass Screening*
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Methods
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*
8.Comparison of Central Corneal Thickness Measured by Tono-pachymetry and Ultrasound Pachymetry
Hye Yeon PARK ; Hye-Young SHIN
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 2021;62(7):904-909
Purpose:
We compared the accuracy of central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements according to CCT measured by noncontact Tono-pachymetry and ultrasound pachymetry (USP).
Methods:
CCT was measured in 90 eyes of 90 subjects by two optometrists. The CCT measurements were compared and the correlations between the measurements were analyzed. To evaluate whether the measurements varied depending on CCT, the subjects were classified into three groups according to CCT (group 1: thin thickness group; group 2: medium thickness group; and group 3: thick thickness group). The differences in CCT obtained by the two devices (△CCT = Tono-pachymetry-USP) were compared and analyzed among the three groups.
Results:
The average CCT measurements by Tono-pachymetry and USP were 523.26 ± 32.93 μm and 527.08 ± 37.33 μm, respectively. CCT by Tono-pachymetry was significantly thinner than by USP (△CCT= -3.82 ± 15.34, p = 0.020). The two measurements were strongly correlated (r = 0.912, p < 0.001). The △CCT values were 5.40 ± 12.13 μm in group 1, -6.37 ± 15.07 μm in group 2, and -10.50 ± 14.39 μm in group 3 (p < 0.001).
Conclusions
CCT measured by tono-pachymetry was thinner on average compared to the value measured by USP and the differences in measurements between the two devices were different according to CCT. The thinner the CCT, the thicker the measurement, and the thicker the CCT, the thinner the measurement. Therefore, this trend should be considered when interpreting tono- pachymetry results in clinical practice.
9.Comparison of Central Corneal Thickness Measured by Tono-pachymetry and Ultrasound Pachymetry
Hye Yeon PARK ; Hye-Young SHIN
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 2021;62(7):904-909
Purpose:
We compared the accuracy of central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements according to CCT measured by noncontact Tono-pachymetry and ultrasound pachymetry (USP).
Methods:
CCT was measured in 90 eyes of 90 subjects by two optometrists. The CCT measurements were compared and the correlations between the measurements were analyzed. To evaluate whether the measurements varied depending on CCT, the subjects were classified into three groups according to CCT (group 1: thin thickness group; group 2: medium thickness group; and group 3: thick thickness group). The differences in CCT obtained by the two devices (△CCT = Tono-pachymetry-USP) were compared and analyzed among the three groups.
Results:
The average CCT measurements by Tono-pachymetry and USP were 523.26 ± 32.93 μm and 527.08 ± 37.33 μm, respectively. CCT by Tono-pachymetry was significantly thinner than by USP (△CCT= -3.82 ± 15.34, p = 0.020). The two measurements were strongly correlated (r = 0.912, p < 0.001). The △CCT values were 5.40 ± 12.13 μm in group 1, -6.37 ± 15.07 μm in group 2, and -10.50 ± 14.39 μm in group 3 (p < 0.001).
Conclusions
CCT measured by tono-pachymetry was thinner on average compared to the value measured by USP and the differences in measurements between the two devices were different according to CCT. The thinner the CCT, the thicker the measurement, and the thicker the CCT, the thinner the measurement. Therefore, this trend should be considered when interpreting tono- pachymetry results in clinical practice.
10.Causes of necrotic features in fine-needle aspirates from cervical lymph nodes
Young Jin SEO ; Hyeongchan SHIN ; Hye Won LEE ; Hye Ra JUNG
Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine 2021;55(1):60-67
Background:
Lymph node fine-needle aspiration (LN FNA) cytology indicates necrosis in various diseases. Dominant necrotic features make the diagnosis of underlying conditions very difficult.
Methods:
We retrospectively reviewed 460 patients who underwent cervical LN aspiration cytology that revealed necrotic findings at Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital in Daegu, Korea, from 2003–2017. Each specimen was evaluated and analyzed in association with the clinical findings, biopsy findings, and/or other ancillary tests, including acid-fast bacilli staining and molecular testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Results:
When necrotic features were noted upon cervical LN FNA cytology, the most common pathologic LN FNA category was necrosis alone (31.5%). The second most common category was granulomatous inflammation (31.3%), followed by Kikuchi disease (20.0%) and malignant neoplasm (8.7%). In cases where the cervical LN FNA revealed necrosis alone, the most common final diagnosis was tuberculosis. In young patients, Kikuchi disease should be considered as one cervical LN FNA category, while metastatic carcinoma should be suspected in older patients.
Conclusions
Even when necrosis alone is observed in LN FNA cytology, it is important to determine the cause through further evaluation.