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Neoplasm Metastasis*

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Aortic regurgitation is a common valvular heart disease, usually the result of rheumatic fever, or syphilis, and rarely of congenital origin. It is frequently associated with other valvular heart disease, especially mitral valve disease. It can be diagnosed by the presence of pulse pressure widening, a Corrigan pulse, and an early decreascendo diastolic murmur at the left sternal border between the second and third intercostal spaces. After the clinical application of cineaortography in the diagnosis of valvular disease, Segal et al (1964) first reported rheumatic aortic regurgitation without an audible murmur in patients having mitral valve disease. The importance of discovering aortic reguritation in patients with predominent mitral disease has begun to be appreciated recently, especially as commisurotomies for the relief of mitral stenosis are performed more frequently. Nowadays eventhough the severity of aortic regurgitation is often not evident preoperatively, aortic regurgitation can become very evident when mitral stenosis is relieved. This study was comprised of seventeen patients with silent aortic regurgitation which was confirmed by cineaortography at Severance Hospital from January, 1970 to August, 1976. 1. Of the seventeen patients, 12 patients were associated with mitral stenosis, 4 with mitral steno-insufficiency, and 1 with mitral insufficiency. 2. Silent aortic regurgitation was suggested from the accompanying clinical features such as chest pain, apical heaving, and left ventficular hypertrophy pattern on both roentgenogram of the chest and electrocardiogram. 3. The severity of the aortic regurgitation was mild to moderate; 7 of the 17 patients being grade I, and 10 patients being grade II on cineaortogram.
Aortic Valve Insufficiency* ; Blood Pressure ; Chest Pain ; Diagnosis ; Electrocardiography ; Heart Murmurs ; Heart Valve Diseases ; Humans ; Hypertrophy ; Mitral Valve ; Mitral Valve Insufficiency ; Mitral Valve Stenosis ; Rheumatic Fever ; Syphilis ; Thorax

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Delivery of Health Care* ; Hearing Loss* ; Hearing* ; Noise*

In the endoscopic one-incision anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) reconstruction, placing the graft's tendon-bone interface flush with the intraarticular femoral tunnel results in frequent distal graft protrusion. On the contrary, we occasionally found that the intraarticular posterior cruciate ligament(PCL) length was longer than patellar tendon length and had a great difficulty in performing the endoscopic one-incision technique of PCL reconstruction. The purpose of this study is to get a certain guideline in the endoscopic one-incision technique of cruciate ligament reconstruction by measuring intraarticular distance of ACL, PCL and patellar tendon and by measuring distance between the insertion of pes anserinus and medial tibial plateau in 19 cadaveric knees. The results were as follows; 1. The average patellar tendon length was 36.2±4.7mm(range 24.7-45.0). 2. The average ACL length was 23.7±3.9mm(range 16.5-30.3). 3. The average PCL length was 32.7±3.8mm(range 25.4-41.0). 4. The average distance between the insertion of pes anserinus and medial tibial plateau was 38.3±5.4mm(range 27.2-53.6). Clinical Relevance: Since Korean patellar tendon is shorter than Caucasian's and intraarticular distance of ACL is same as Caucasian's, graft-tunnel mismatch doesn't seem to be a major problem with the accurate technique of the endoscopic one-incision ACL reconstruction in Korean patients. It is possible to interfere with the pes anserinus if the length of the tibial tunnel is needed more than 44.8 mm, It is very difficult to perform an endoscopic one-incision PCL reconstruction if the length of patellar tendon is less than 35mm because intraarticular distance of PCL is sometimes longer than patellar tendon in such cases.
Adult ; Cadaver ; Humans ; Knee ; Ligaments ; Patellar Ligament ; Transplants

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alpha-Tocopherol* ; beta Carotene* ; Humans ; Retinoids*

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Pregnancy*

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Radiotherapy*

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Gastric Stump*

PURPOSE: This study was conducted to identify the effects of depression on the survival of patients with cancer over a 10 year period. METHODS: A retrospective review was conducted to examine survival of 218 patients with stomach, colorectal and breast cancer, who had been treated for cancer from 2002 to 2011. Depression was assessed by using the Symptom Check List-90 Revision in 2002, and hope, fighting spirit and other potential confounders were also measured to control for their effects on the association between depression and the survival time. Data on survival were collected from the Statistics Korea and also from medical record in 2011. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazard regression model were used to examine if depression affected survival. RESULTS: The total number of death was 106, and the non-survivors scored higher on depression than survivors. Depression was found to be one of the influencing factors on survival from cancer. CONCLUSION: Depression was significantly associated with the increased risk of death in cancer patients. Further research is needed to identify in details which type of emotional interventions can extend the survival time of cancer patients in depression.
Emotional Adjustment ; Breast Neoplasms ; Depression* ; Hope ; Humans ; Korea ; Medical Records ; Retrospective Studies ; Stomach ; Survivors