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Humans ; Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary* ; Male*

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Eating ; Functional Food ; Hypertrichosis ; Minoxidil

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Coronary Artery Bypass* ; Coronary Vessels*

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data in child health education or counselling through content analysis related to child health in newspaper articles. Data were collected 8 daily newspaper by selecting health articles from neonate to adolescent period during 1 year from January 1 to December 31 in 1998. The data were analyzed in the framework of content analysis method and the reliability degree was 98% by the method of Holsti. The results of this study are as follows. 1. The frequency according to health category, disease treatment(46.7%) topped followed by health maintenance . promotion(28.0%), disease prevention(14.7%), growth? development(10.6%). 2. The frequency according to season, summer(36. 4%) rank first. 3. The frequency according to WHO international disease classification, infectious disease(29.6%) take most. 4. According to child developmental age, similar frequency showed from infant to adolescent except neonate. 5. 201 themes, 43 category, 4 health categories were confirmed in the content analysis. 6. Health maintence . promotion occupy 28.0% of health category include 14 categories. 7. Growth . development include 6 category occupying 10.6% of the whole health category. 8. Disease prevention occupy 14.7%0 of health category and contain 6 categories. 9. Disease treatment take top of health category by the rate of 46.7% and contain 17 categories.
Adolescent ; Child ; Child Development ; Child Health* ; Child* ; Classification ; Education ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Newspapers* ; Seasons ; Periodicals

OBJECTIVES: Hypertension provokes left ventricular diastolic dysfunction due to decreased elasticity of the ventricular myocardium at first. It has been proposed that the Doppler echocardiography might provide information concerning diastole because of its ability to measure the blood flow velocities across the mitral valve noninvasively. But Doppler mitral velocity may be "normalized" in hypertensive patients in different conditions. The purpose of this study is to evaluate diastolic function in hypertensive hearts using Doppler echocardiography of the pulmonary venous flow in conjunction with mitral flow velocity pattern. METHODS: We measured the mitral flow velocity curves and the pulmonary flow velocity curves in fifty hypertensive patients(mean age : 56.3+/-10.0, man : 19, woman : 31) nad forty healthy adults(mean age : 51.6+/-12.5, man : 14, woman : 26) from March 1995 to December 1995 by using the SONO 1000 of Hewlett Packerd. RESULTS: 1) The mitral flow velocity pattern in 50 hypertensive patients was characterized by the decrease in the peak early diastolic filling velocity(E : 0.59+/-0.12m/sec) and the ratio of E to peak filling velocity(A : 1.00+/-0.46m/sec). Isovolumetric relaxation time and deceleration time were 127.2+/-33.3msec, 258.9+/-40.9msec respectively. They were longer than normotensive patients(P < 0.05). 2) The pulmonary venous flow velocity pattern in hypertensive patients was characterized by the decreased peak diastolic forward velocity(D : 33.7+/-9.8cm/sec) and the ratio of peak systolic forward velocity(S) to D(S/D : 1.60+/-0.5)(P < 0.05). 3) There was no relation between the flow velocity integral parameters and the peak flow velocity parameters of pulmonary venous flow pattern in hypertensive patients. 4) The dofference in the pulmonary venous duration and the mitral A wave duration at atrial contraction (DA-DR) was 20.9+/-29.4 msec in hypertensive patients. DA-DR in normatensive patients was 24.3+/-32.9msec. DA-DR was not significant in hypertensive patients compared with that of the healthy subjects (P < 0.05) CONCLUSION: Analysis of pulmonary venous flow velocity pattern in conjunction with mitral flow velocity pattern in hypertensive patients provides more accurate assessment of left ventricular diastolic function.
Blood Flow Velocity ; Deceleration ; Diastole ; Echocardiography, Doppler ; Elasticity ; Female ; Heart* ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Mitral Valve ; Myocardium ; NAD ; Relaxation

Two cases of giant cell tumor of bone diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology are described. Case 1 was a 28-year-old male who had pain sense for one year at the right distal thigh. His radiologic finding revealed a destructive cortical lesion with soft tissue extension at medial side of epiphysis of the distal femur. Case 2 was a 21-year-old female complaining pain at left distal forearm for eight months and showed a well-demarcated expansile osteolytic lesion with multiseptation, and cortical destruction at epiphysis and metaphysis of the left distal radius on the X-ray. Fine needle aspiration of each lesion was performed. The aspirate of the case 1 revealed moderate cellularity, which was composed of scattered giant cells of osteoclastic type and small round to oval monotonous stromal cells in large areas. Giant cells were evenly distributed in single or small groups and had irregular but abundant cytoplasms with 10 to 20 nuclei in the center. The nuclei showed ovoid shape, fine granular chromatin, and a small but conspicuous nucleolus. Stromal cells were dispersed in isolated pattern or sometimes aggregated in clusters and showed the same nuclei as those of giant cells and scanty cytoplasms. Comparing to case 1, case 2 had a more translucent abundant cytoplasm in the giant cells and more spindled stromal cells. All two cases revealed neither nuclear atypism nor increased abnormal mitoses in both giant and stromal cells, suggesting no evidence of malignancy. Thereafter the lesions were treated with excision and curettage, and histologically confirmed as giant cell tumors of the bone.
Adult ; Biopsy, Fine-Needle ; Chromatin ; Curettage ; Cytoplasm ; Epiphyses ; Female ; Femur ; Forearm ; Giant Cell Tumor of Bone ; Giant Cell Tumors ; Giant Cells ; Glomerulonephritis* ; Humans ; Hypertensive Encephalopathy* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Male ; Mitosis ; Osteoclasts ; Radius ; Stromal Cells ; Thigh ; Young Adult

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Depression*

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Axilla ; Poroma*

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Female ; Humans ; Pregnancy* ; Pregnant Women*

PURPOSE: The peak incidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation(DIC) in the pediatric age group is in the neonatal period. The objective was to determine the early diagnostic laboratory tests of DIC in newborn infants. METHODS: 46 neonates with DIC, admitted between January 1995 and November 1998 in NICU of Chungnarn National University Hospital, were compared with 49 newborn infants in control group. We checked platelet counts, PT, aPTT, FDP, fibrinogen and AT III in both groups. We defined abnormality of laboratory tests of DIC as values which outranged 2 S.D. of control group means. In DIC group, serial laboratory tests were performed in 35 patients. RESULTS: Symptoms or signs suggestive of DIC were abdominal distension(40%), bleeding(35%), apnea(15%), and lethargy(15%). The incidence of infection was 65%, and the incidence of keeping endotracheal tube, arterial line, umbilical venous catheterization, TPN and asphyxia was about 40%. Sensitivity of laboratory tests was as follows: fibrinogen was 63%, platelet count 59%, aPTT 49%. And specificity was 100% for FDP, 96% for platelet count, and 93% for fibrinogen. 22 patients showed at least one of the initially normal values changed to abnormal during follow up tests. The percentage of transition was 83% for fibrinogen and 64% for platelet count. In DIC group, 34 patients (74%) improved, but 12(26%) died. CONCLUSION: This study suggests that the most reliable initial diagnostic laboratory tests in DIC are fibrinogen and platelet counts.
Asphyxia ; Catheterization ; Catheters ; Dacarbazine ; Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation* ; Fibrinogen ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Incidence ; Infant, Newborn* ; Platelet Count ; Reference Values ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Vascular Access Devices