About 40% of patients with diabetes mellitus develops to diabetic nephropathy, and these patients show increment of glomerular filtration rate and renal volume at early phase. 99mTc-DMSA SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) can measure a functional renal volume because 99mTc- DMSA it is taken up by the viable proximal tubular cells located in the renal cortex. To evaluate the renal volume in early diabetic nephropathy, we compared functional renal volume between diabetic patients and control, renal transplantation donor. 99mTc-DMSA was injected intravenously and SPECT was done after 2 hours in 15 diabetic patients, 18 renal transplantation donors, and 2 patients with end stage renal disease due to chronic glomerulonephritis. In diabetic patients with creatinine clearance more than 30ml/min and proteinuria, right and left renal volume were 247+/-22ml/BSA(m2), 256+/-37ml/BSA (m2), which were greater than those of diabetic patients with normal renal function and without proteinuria, or renal transplantation donors(P<0.05). In conclusion, we measured the functional renal volume by 99mTc-DMSA SPECT. Renal volume of diabetic patients with proteinuria were larger than the volume of control group or diabetic patients with normal renal function and without proteinuria. 99mTc-DMSA SPECT was thought to be useful test a for the measurement of functioning renal volume.
Creatinine ; Diabetes Mellitus* ; Diabetic Nephropathies ; Glomerular Filtration Rate ; Glomerulonephritis ; Humans ; Kidney Failure, Chronic ; Kidney Transplantation ; Proteinuria ; Succimer ; Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid* ; Tissue Donors ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*

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Humans ; Nephrotic Syndrome* ; Renal Veins* ; Thrombosis*

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Collagen* ; Heparin* ; Mesangial Cells*

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Collagen* ; Glucose* ; Insulin* ; Mesangial Cells* ; Somatostatin*

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Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory* ; Peritonitis, Tuberculous*

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Humans ; Kidney Failure, Chronic* ; Kidney Transplantation* ; Thyroid Gland*

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Humans ; Kidney Failure, Chronic* ; Kidney Transplantation* ; Thyroid Gland*

Demodex is easily found from eyelashes and suggested as the one of the causes of some eye diseases. This study was to investigate the occurence rate, and classification of Demodex from eyelashes, and its relationship with blepharitis. The data of this study were compiled from 27 blepharitis patients and 173 patients without blepharitis (control group) who had visited St. Paul's Hospital from October 1981 to December 1981. Three eyelashes from each eyelid-total 12 lashes from a patient-were extracted under the slit lamp, located on a slide glass and fixed with polyvinyl lactophenol mounting medium. (countinued..)
Blepharitis ; Classification ; Eye Diseases ; Eyelashes* ; Glass ; Humans ; Polyvinyls

Shiitake (Lentinus edodes) is a kind of mushroom which is cooked and eaten as a food in Chinese, Japanese and Korean meals. It is nowadays the second most commonly produced edible mushroom in the world. In 1985, a case characterized by itchy skin eruptions after the ingestion of raw shiitake mushrooms was reported and was termed as toxicodermia. Here we report five cases of shiitake dermatitis which developed after ingestion of raw or cooked shiitake mushrooms. All patients complained of severe itching and showed linear grouped erythematous papules after scratching(Kobner phenomenon). To our knowledge, this is the first report of shiitake dermatitis in the Korean literature.
Agaricales ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Dermatitis* ; Eating ; Humans ; Meals ; Pruritus ; Shiitake Mushrooms ; Skin

An 84-year-old woman had an ovoid shallow ulcer with an elevated, indurated, pigmented border on the left cheek. Histological examination revealed a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma and a solar keratosis with abundant melanocytes and melanin pigment. Ultrastructurally, the keratinocytes contained numerous melanosomes in their cytoplasms and the melanocytes in the squamous cell carcinoma and the solar keratosis had mature melanosomes.
Aged, 80 and over ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* ; Cheek ; Cytoplasm ; Epithelial Cells* ; Female ; Humans ; Keratinocytes ; Keratosis ; Melanins ; Melanocytes ; Melanosomes ; Ulcer