OBJECTIVE: The patients of endometriosis may complain of dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, and dyspareunia, but may be asymptomatic. We studied on the correlation between the pain and the psychologic stress, Also, we studied on the correlation between serum CA-l25 levels and the psychologic stress. METHODS: The data was obtained from il7 endometriosis patients. Psychological stress was studied with STAI(Stait-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and BDI(Beck Depression Inventory). We compared the degree of anxiety and depression according to existence of pain and the duration of pain. Also we examed the scores of STAI and BDI according to the level of serum CA-125. RESULTS: The pain group had more depression and anxiety, in comparison to the pain-free group. And the depression and anxiety significantly increased in long-term pain group. There was no correlation between the level of serum CA-125 and the depression,or axiety. CONCLUSION: The pain of endometriosis may play a role of pychological stress to the patients, so it seems to increase depression and anxiety.
Anxiety ; Depression ; Dysmenorrhea ; Dyspareunia ; Endometriosis* ; Female ; Humans ; Interleukin-7 ; Pelvic Pain ; Stress, Psychological*

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The objective of this research was to study the change of lung volume after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients. MATERIALS AND METHOD: Eight OSA patients were participated in this study. These patients were treated with UPPP at Seoul adventist hospital. Vital capacity (VC), inspiratory capacity (IC), expiratory residual volume (ERV) and FEV1, FEV1/FVC, FEV25-75% were determined by standard spirometry at the preoperative, at 3 postoperative days and 1 postoperative month. RESULTS: Vital capacity (VC) was significantly larger at 3 post-operative days (3.58+/-0.87 L, mean+/-SD) than those at pre-operative (3.12+/-0.69 L, mean+/-SD) in the patient with OSA (p=0.047). FEV 1 (L) was larger at 3 post-operative days (2.91+/-0.76 L, mean+/-vSD) than those at pre-operative (2.68+/-0.85 L, mean+/-vSD), but was not significantly correlated statically (p=0.249). CONCLUSION: We found significant correlation between preopeative and postoperative VC, IC.
Humans ; Inspiratory Capacity ; Lung* ; Residual Volume ; Respiratory Function Tests ; Seoul ; Sleep Apnea Syndromes ; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive* ; Spirometry ; Vital Capacity

The present study was carried out to clarify the anatomical changes of lumbar intervertebral discs by aging. Anterior height, posterior height, anteroposterior diameter of intervertebral discs were measured on 512 normal plain lateral radiographs of lumbosacral spine. And the indices of disc wedging and relative disc height were calculated. There was a cephalocaudal gradient of increase in the indices of disc wedging in all age groups. The indices of relative disc height were constant at all lumbar levels. These suggest that the lower disc is more wedge shaped and the height of discs changes in the constant ratio with that of vertebral body.
Aging* ; Humans ; Intervertebral Disc* ; Spine

It is sufficient to justify distinguishing age-appropriate and age-inappropriate forms of age-related memory decline. The former, of which AAMI is an example, represents a normal age-related phenomenon, whereas the latter, the true descendent of benign senescent forgetfulness, is by definition abnormal and possibly, pathological. Whether age-inappropriate forgetfulness is progressive, whether it can be distinguished from other concepts of mild cognitive decline by virtue of being specific to memory, and whether it is qualitatively different from normal memory or merely worse is not yet certain. The prevalence of age-inappropriate forgetfulness is undetermined, but it is certainly less common than AAMI. The construct of AAMI was introduced by an NIMH work group. It was the group's declared intention to facilitate communication and stimulate research into late-life memory loss, particularly its treatment. Completely satisfactory diagnostic criteria do not yet exist for AAMI. Improved criteria would take an individual's overall level of intellectual functioning or educational background into account when setting the standard against which to rate memory, distinguish age-appropriate from age-inappropriate decline. AAMI differs from BSF in several points. First, the AAMI criteria define impairment with respect to healthy young adult levels, not to those of the older individual's age peers as was implied in the description of BSF. Second, the term AAMI is non-specific with regard to etiology and does not necessarily imply that the disorder is non-progressive. Thus, patients whose memory impairment is subsequently shown to be the earliest stage of a dementing illness are not necessarily excluded from the category of AAMI, and it is sensible to ask how often AAMI is, in fact, a dementia prodrome.
Aging ; Dementia ; Humans ; Intention ; Memory Disorders ; Memory* ; National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) ; Prevalence ; Virtues ; Young Adult

No abstract available.
Lung* ; Tracheoesophageal Fistula*

The authers reported one case of manic episode that occured after retirement in a 63 year old male patient. There was no psychiatric past history and family history. Also there was no abnormal finding on laboratory examination. This patient had received small doses of antidepressants anxiolytic and hypnotic (amitriptyline 10 mg, lorazepam 0.5 mg, triazolam 0.25 mg) to control insomnia since 3 months ago before admission. This patient showed manic symptoms such as grandious idea, expansive and irritable mood, increased psychomotor activity and insomnia after retirement. Pharmacotherapy (lithium and chloropromazine) supportive psychotherapy and family therapy were administered. Excessive motivation for work after retirement and small dose of antidepressant were suspected to trigger a manic episode in this elderly patient. We also reviewed literatures about pathophysiology of elderly manic disorder.
Aged* ; Antidepressive Agents ; Bipolar Disorder ; Drug Therapy ; Family Therapy ; Humans ; Irritable Mood ; Lorazepam ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Motivation ; Psychotherapy ; Retirement* ; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders ; Triazolam

The auther tried to describe the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of senile dementia, especially Alzheimer's dementia (AD). AD is a clinicopathological manifestation, which patients are estimated as about 150 hundred thousands globally in 1997. The etiology of the AD is not cleared but the risk factors of the AD are known as old age, Down's syndrome and genetic factors. The diagnosis of the AD is based on exclusion criteria some years ago. But it is known that there are some distinghed clinical features through the clinical course of AD and physically peculiar features are found using neuroimaging technique. There are some distinguished changes found in the postmortem brain study of AD patients. The auther discussed the AD diagnosis process through AD differential diagnosis, mental status examination, functional global evauation, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, neuropathology and peripheral marker.
Alzheimer Disease ; Brain ; Dementia ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential* ; Down Syndrome ; Electrophysiology ; Humans ; Neuroimaging ; Risk Factors

The dysplastic nevus is a rare form of melanocytic nevus in Korean people. During the past 5 years the authors experienced 5 cases in the St. Mary's Hospital and Kang Nam St. Mary's Hospital. The criteria and the histologic findings of dysplastic nevi are debated in the western literature. Clinically, all cases were greater than 5 mm in size with ill defined irregular borders and irregularly distributed pigmentation. Histopathologically, all cases showed numerous discrete individual nests of melanocytes located in the dermoepidermal junction and the papillary dermis and were characterized by extension of dermoepidermal component of the nevus at the "shoulder" beyond the dermal component of the nevus. There was no cytologic atypia of nevus cells in all cases. Our cases lacked personal or family history of malignant melanoma. Therefore, we believe our cases are nonfamilial, sporadic and benign nevi with no prognostic significance. A brief review of the literature and a discussion on the term "dysplastic" and clinicopathologic correlation are made.

No abstract available.
Fungi* ; Plastics*

Segmentally distributed cutaneous eruptions and neuralgia are common manifestations of herpes zoster. However, motor loss is another aspect of this manifestation, which is less well known and considered a rare finding. In many cases the loss of motor function may be easily overlooked because the pain is the more prominent feature and the weakness probably goes unrecognized with only a mild impairment of the motor function. We experienced a 71-year-old male patient with a herpes zoster-related motor paralysis of right arm whose clinical features of a weak limb mimicked other spinal motor diseases and confirmed motor involvement using electromyographic (EMG) and motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV) studies.
Aged ; Arm ; Extremities* ; Herpes Zoster* ; Humans ; Male ; Neural Conduction ; Neuralgia ; Paralysis*