No abstract available.
Anticonvulsants*

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Bursitis* ; Shoulder*

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Animals ; Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental* ; Lovastatin* ; Puromycin* ; Rats*

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Measles*

Pedunculated hepatocellular carcinoma was first described by Roux in 1987, and Goldberg and Wallerstein presented a case with pathological description in 1934. Since then 37 cases have been reported in the world literature. A pedunculated hepatocellular carcinoma, occurred in a 69-year-old woman, was encountered. It was attached to the Glission's capsule of the right lobe of liver inferiorly, and was connected to the porta hepatis bt a mesenteric pedicle containing arteries, veins, bile ducts and nerve bundles. The tumor mass was completely encapsulated, and measured 8.5x8x6 cm and 255 gm. It was composed of hepatocellular carcinoma of a well-differentiated, acinar type. Tumor cells were positive for HBsAg, but negative for alpha-fetoprotein on peroxidase-antiperoxidase staining. The liver exhibited macronodular cirrhosis on gross examination. This tumor is thought to have on in the supernumerary lobe of liver.
Female ; Humans ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

Neonatal Sepsis is a frequent and important cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal period. This study was undertaken to observe the 55 cases of proven neonatal sepsis among 6,717 newborn infants under 4 weeks of age, admitted to the nursery of Yeungnam University Hospital from May 1, 1983 to April 30, 1988. We observed following results: 1. The morbidity rate of male (1.12%) was higher than that of female (0.44%) significantly (p<0.05). 2. The morbidity rate of prematurity (2.65%) was higher than that of full term (0.76%) significantly (p<0.05). 3. The incidence of perinatal obstetric complications in early onset neonatal sepsis was higher than that of late onset neonatal sepsis (38.5% vs 10.3%, p<0.05). 4. The common clinical manifestations were poor feeding (52.7%), jaundice (45.5%), diarrhea (30.9%) and irritability (30.9%). 5. Among the causative organism, gram positive organisms were predominated and Staphylococcus epidermidis was the most common organism. There was no difference in the causative organisms between early onset and late onset sepsis.
Diarrhea ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Infant, Newborn ; Jaundice ; Male ; Mortality ; Nurseries ; Sepsis* ; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Prophylactic treatment of varices is an appealing concept because 50% of patients who experience variceal bleeding will die within the first 6 weeks of the first bleeding. However, the majority of trials which have evaluated prophylactic therapy gave failed to demonstrate advantage, We tried prophylactic endoscopic variceal ligation(EVL) in 10 patients, to evaluate the safety and effect of prophylactic EVL for esophageal varices with high-risk of hemorrhage. The eradication rate was 100% without bleeding and mortality, the mean session for eradication of varices 1.9, the number of bands per person 16.9 and the number of bands per session 8.9. Although mild chest pain(5.3%) and chest discomfortness(31.6%) were observed, no serious complication related with EVL resulted from 19 EVL sessions. The patients were followed for a mean of 327.0 days(85-708), during which recurrent esophagea1 varices were found in a case at 260 days from last session, but no bleeding nor death was occured. No late complication of EVL was documented. In conclusion, prophylactic EVL is safe and may be effective for esophageal varices with high-risk of hemorrhage. But, the large controlled-trial should be required.
Esophageal and Gastric Varices* ; Hemorrhage* ; Humans ; Ligation* ; Mortality ; Thorax ; Varicose Veins

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Finite Element Analysis*

Objective: Depending on the direction and degree of the septal deviation, the patient with malalignment-type VSD present with a variety of clinical syndrome. It is the purpose of this study to examine clinical characteristics of malalignment-type VSD, and to emphasize the clinical significance of septal malalignment in VSD and thus to increase the awareness for it. Methods: We analyzed echocardiographic or cardic catheterization and angiographic findings of 85 patients who were diagnosed as malalignment-type VSD at the department of pediatrics, Chonnam University Hospital between July 1990 and September 1992 Results: 1) Among 85 patients with malalignment-type VSD, there were 52 Cases (61. 2%) of Fallot-type VSD. 14 cases (16.5%) of Eisenmenger-type VSD, 19 cases (22.3%) of coarctation-type VSD. 2) All the 85 cases with malalignment-type VSD had the infundibular defects, and perimembranous infundibular VSD was most frequently associated with septal malalignment. 3) There was no prolapsing valve in all the cases with malalignment-type VSD. 4) Pulmonary hypertension was observed in all the cases with Eisenmenger-type and coarctation-type VSD. 5) Among the 19 cases with coarctation-type VSD, 8 cses (42.1%) were associated with coarctation of the aorth, and 3 cases (15.8%) with interrupted aortic arch. Conclusion: We conclude that septal malalignment in VSD has considerable clinical significance. Therefore, the authors believe that we should always consider the presence or absence of septal malalignment, in addition to the size and location of defect at the time of diagnostic evaluation of VSD, especially in the Koreans showing high incidence of infundibular VSD.
Aorta, Thoracic ; Catheterization ; Catheters ; Echocardiography ; Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular* ; Humans ; Hypertension, Pulmonary ; Incidence ; Jeollanam-do ; Pediatrics

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Scrub Typhus*