No abstract available.
Ferritins*

No abstract available.
Twins, Conjoined*

PURPOSE: This study was conducted for the purpose of a structural model analysis of family health of women who came to Korea for being married to Korean men. METHODS: The data were collected from 260 immigrant women at multicultural centers located in C and B cities from May 10th to 30th, 2012. The variance analysis on the samples was conducted by using the maximum likelihood minimization function with AMOS 7.0. The fitness was evaluated by means of the SRMR, RMSEA, CFI, and TLI with a 90% confidence interval. RESULTS: First, immigrant women's self-esteem and acculturative stress were found to have significant direct effects on their family health. Second, their self-esteem and acculturative stress have direct effects on their marital adjustment. Third, their marital adjustment was found to have significant direct effects on their family health. Forth, immigrant women's Korean language ability was found not to have significant direct effects on their marital adjustment and family health. CONCLUSION: In order to enhance the family health of immigrant women, it is necessary to develop and apply nursing programs in consideration of immigrant women's self-esteem, marital adjustment and acculturative stress.
Aminopeptidases ; Emigrants and Immigrants ; Family Health ; Female ; Humans ; Korea ; Language ; Marriage ; Models, Structural ; Negotiating ; Porphyrins ; Social Adjustment ; Transients and Migrants

No abstract available.
Factor V Deficiency* ; Factor V*

Systemic air embolism occurs when air enters the pulmonary venous system as a result of a positive gradient caused by low pulmonary venous pressure or increased airway pressure, or both. Systemic air embolism has been frequently reported after penetrating thoracic trauma and can induce life-threatening complications. In blunt thoracic trauma, systemic air embolism has been rarely diagnosed. Because air embolism associated with blunt trauma is more insidious, diagnosis is usually not appreciated unless special circumstances allow discovery of air in major vessels or coronary arteries, such as during emergency resuscitative thoracotomy. We report a case of systemic air embolism in an 18-month-old girl after accidental thoracic blunt trauma and review related literature.
Child* ; Coronary Vessels ; Diagnosis ; Embolism, Air* ; Emergencies ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Thoracotomy ; Venous Pressure

BACKGROUND: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is characterized by clinical features similar to those of acute myocardial ischemia, but without angiographic evidence of obstructive coronary artery disease. We present a patient with takotsubo cardiomyopathy following acute infarction involving the left insular cortex. CASE REPORT: A 52-year-old man was admitted with acute infarction of the left middle cerebral artery territory and acute chest pain. Acute myocardial infarction was suspected because of elevated serum troponin levels and hypokinesia of the left ventricle on echocardiography. However, a subsequent coronary angiography revealed no stenosis within the coronary arteries or ballooning of the apical left ventricle. CONCLUSIONS: We postulated that catecholamine imbalance due to the insular lesion could be responsible for these interesting features.
Cerebral Infarction ; Chest Pain ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Coronary Angiography ; Coronary Artery Disease ; Coronary Vessels ; Echocardiography ; Heart Ventricles ; Humans ; Hypokinesia ; Infarction ; Middle Aged ; Middle Cerebral Artery ; Myocardial Infarction ; Myocardial Ischemia ; Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy ; Troponin

Tracheal agenesis with bronchoesophageal fistula should be suspected in any newborn who is cyanotic at birth, has an absent cry, and cannot be intubated but shows some improvement when ventilated by bag and mask. It is important to make the diagnosis as soon as possible because esophageal intubation or a distal tracheostomy may be the only method to provide an airway while other measures and/or diagnostic confirmation are being sought. We experienced a case of complete tracheal agenesis with carinoesophageal fistula, cloacal anomalies in a male neonate.
Diagnosis ; Fistula* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Intubation ; Male ; Masks ; Parturition ; Tracheostomy

No abstract available.
Female ; Humans ; Virilism*

Benign fibrous histiocytoma (FH) is a benign tumor composed of fibroblasts and histiocytes in varying proportions. This tumor is usually found in adult extremities but rarely occurs in deep soft tissues of the oral cavity. As it is difficult to diagnose with physical and radiologic exams, deep benign FH can only be diagnosed by histopathology. We report a case of a 36-year-old female patient who came to our department with painless swelling in the right buccal mucosa. This case report reviews the clinical, radiological, and histological aspects of this tumor.
Adult ; Extremities ; Female ; Fibroblasts ; Head and Neck Neoplasms ; Histiocytes ; Histiocytoma ; Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous* ; Humans ; Mouth Mucosa ; Mouth Neoplasms ; Mouth*

OBJECTIVE: This study was to examine in vitro neural cell differentiation pattern of the genetically modified human embryonic stem cells expressing tyrosine hydroxylase (TH). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Human embryonic stem (hES, MB03) cell was transfected with cDNAs cording for TH. Successful transfection was confirmed by western immunoblotting. Newly transfected cell line (TH#2/MB03) was induced to differentiate by two neurogenic factors retinoic acid (RA) and b-FGF. Exp. I) Upon differentiation using RA, embryoid bodies (EB, for 4 days) derived from TH#2/MB03 cells were exposed to RA (10-6 M)/AA (5x10-2 mM) for 4 days, and were allowed to differentiate in N2 medium for 7, 14 or 21 days. Exp. II) When b-FGF was used, neuronal precursor cells were expanded at the presence of b-FGF (10 ng/ml) for 6 days followed by a final differentiation in N2 medium for 7, 14 or 21 days. Neuron differentiation was examined by indirect immunocytochemistry using neuron markers (NF160 & NF200). RESULTS: After 7 days in N2 medium, approximately 80% and 20% of the RA or b-FGF induced Th#2/MB03 cells were immunoreactive to anti-NF160 and anti-NF200 antibodies, respectively. As differentiation continued, NF200 in RA treated cells significantly increased to 73.0% on 14 days compared to that in b-FGF treated cells (53.0%, p<0.05), while the proportion of cells expressing NF160 was similarly decreased between two groups. However, throughout the differentiation, expression of TH was maintained (~90%). HPLC analyses indicated the increased levels of L-DOPA in RA treated genetically modified hES cells with longer differentiation time. CONCLUSION: These results suggested that a genetically modified hES cells (TH#2/MB03) could be efficiently differentiated in vitro into mature neurons by RA induction method.
Antibodies ; Blotting, Western ; Cell Differentiation* ; Cell Line ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; DNA, Complementary ; Embryoid Bodies ; Embryonic Stem Cells* ; Humans* ; Immunohistochemistry ; Levodopa ; Neurons ; Transfection ; Tretinoin ; Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase* ; Tyrosine*