OBJECTIVE: In Korea, only a few reports were introduced about body fat mass of women with using the Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), highly sensitive and specific measurement for fat mass analysis. This study was carried out to determine whether total and regional body composition changes measured by DEXA were more related to age or to menopause. METHODS: One hundred fifteen postmenopausal women who had never received estrogen replacement therapy were enrolled in Menopausal Clinic from January 2001 to April 2002. BMD and body composition were measured by DEXA. The proportions of android and gynoid fat were calculated in all women and differences were sought by ANOVA test, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression. RESULTS: They were classified as perimenopausal women (n=31), young postmenopausal women (n=60) or old postmenopausal women (n=24). Bone mineral content (BMC), BMD, leg lean body mass and gynoid fat were significant differences among three groups. In multiple linear regression, age was a predictor of total, trunk and leg BMC (p<0.01), total, L2-4 and proximal femur BMD (p<0.01), total, arm and trunk fat percentage of total body mass and trunk regional fat percentage of regional tissue (p<0.05), whereas years since of age was not a predictor of any of the body composition variables. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study suggest that BMC, BMD and body fat distribution with a shift toward a more central location in postmenopausal women. This change appears to be more related to age than to menopause.
Absorptiometry, Photon ; Adipose Tissue ; Arm ; Body Composition* ; Body Fat Distribution ; Bone Density ; Estrogen Replacement Therapy ; Female ; Femur ; Humans ; Korea ; Leg ; Linear Models ; Menopause*

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Glomerulonephritis*

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Female ; Humans ; Pregnancy* ; Pregnant Women*

Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis of infancy and early childhood characterized by high fever, rash, mucositis, lymphadenopathy and coronary artery damage. The failure to indentify a causative organism using convetional culture and serological techniques, and the lack of response to antibiotics indicate that the disorder is probably not due to any known bacterial or viral pathogens. During the acute phase of the disease, the alterations of T and B cell functions, changes of cytokine and immunoglobulin levels have been reported. This study was performed to investigate the changes of immunoglobulins levels in patients with Kawasaki disease. IgG, IgA, IgM and IgG subclasses were measured using immunoprecipitation and EIA in the sera of patients with Kawasaki disease. The results were as follows: 1) Acute phase reactants such as CRP and ESR were significantly increased in Kawasaki patients compared to those in control patients(p<0.01). 2) Serum IgG levels in Kawasaki disease were markedly increased than those in control patients, while serum IgA and IgM levels showed no significant changes (P: No Significance). 3) IgG1 and IgG4 were predominantly increased increased in the sera of Kawasaki patients, while IgG2 and IgG3 were not significantly increased (P: No Significance). With these results, unidentified infectious organism with abnormal immune response could be suggested as an etiologic factor of Kawasaki disease.
Acute-Phase Proteins ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Child* ; Coronary Vessels ; Exanthema ; Fever ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin A ; Immunoglobulin G* ; Immunoglobulin M ; Immunoglobulins ; Immunoprecipitation ; Lymphatic Diseases ; Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome* ; Mucositis ; Vasculitis

The importance of the ticks in medical field has been emphasized because of their association with and transmission of various diseases. We report herein a case of tick bite in a 55-year-old male farmer, who visited our hospital on July 2, 1981 with a parasite attached on right lower flank and rice to small pea sized, pruritic erythematous papular skin eruptions on chest and right lower flank. The skin lesions disappeared completely with.in five days after removal of the parasite, which was identified with an adult female tick which belongs to Genus Ixodes.
Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Ixodes* ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Parasites ; Peas ; Skin ; Thorax ; Tick Bites* ; Ticks*

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Cystadenocarcinoma, Mucinous* ; Humans* ; Mucins*

No abstract available.
alpha-Fetoproteins* ; Prenatal Diagnosis*

Posterior epidural migration of a sequestrated intervertebral lumbar disc is rare with only five cases ever reported in the literature so far. The objective of this paper is to report our experience of such a extremely rare case with a review the literature

No abstract available.
Leg* ; Myocutaneous Flap*

Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia(ALHE) is a benign angiomatous neoplasm which usually arises from skin, blood vessel, soft tissue, heart and rarely from bone. The authors experienced a case of ALHE which involved the distal femur of 35-years old male and treated by marginal excision and autogenous cancellous bone graft with plate fixation.
Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia ; Blood Vessels ; Femur ; Heart ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Male ; Skin ; Transplants