No abstract available.
Foot*

No abstract available.
Congenital Abnormalities*

BACKGROUND: Many hyaluronic acid (HA)-based anti-adhesive agents have been commercialized for clinical use in the pharmaceutical market. But their efficacy in arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs remains elusive. To determine their efficacy, we performed a comparative analysis of the effects of two hyaluronate/carboxymethylcellulose (CMC)-based anti-adhesive agents, Protescal and Guardix. METHODS: We recruited a total of 256 patients who had received an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair at our hospital between January 2014 and March 2015. Among them, 96 patients fulfilled the study's selection criteria and were enrolled as the final population sample. Thirty patients who had received a postoperative injection of Protescal were allocated into Group A. Another 30 patients who had received a postoperative injection of Guardix were allocated into Group B. As controls, 36 patients who did not receive any injection were allocated into Group C. The patients included in this study were aged between 19 and 75 years. For the clinical assessment, we measured the following clinical parameters—the visual analogue scale for pain (PVAS), the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score, and the constant score, as well as passive range of motions (ROMs)—at three time-points (preoperatively, 2-month postoperatively, and 6-month postoperatively). RESULTS: We found that Group A compared to Group B tended to show a swifter recovery in passive anterior elevation and in internal rotation by the 2-month postoperative follow-up, but the differences were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: We found that the effects of HA/CMC-based injections were minimal after arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs.
Elbow ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Hyaluronic Acid ; Patient Selection ; Retrospective Studies* ; Rotator Cuff* ; Shoulder ; Surgeons

In open wounds of the hand that have exposed bone or tendons, management may be difficult. Compared with conventional cutaneous pedicle flaps, the fascial radial flap transfer has several advantages : (1) one operation is required by one operating team reliably and easy to perform, (2) the appearance is not bulky, (3) the donor area is closed primarily, and (4) the hand is free for early motion of the shoulder and the elbow. One potential disadvantage is the permanent loss of the contribution of the radial artery to the circulation of the hand. One case of the fascial radial flap transfer was performed at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of Hanyang University Hospital, and satisfactory result was obtained.
Elbow ; Hand ; Humans ; Radial Artery ; Shoulder ; Tendons ; Tissue Donors ; Wounds and Injuries

Thallium-201 brain SPECT is utilized in the diagnosis of brain tumor especially in cases where CT or MRI findings alone cannot differentiate malignant lesion from benign. Recently we came across two cases of positive T1-201 brain SPECT in clinically suspected brain tumor patients that turned out to be hemorrhagic cerebral infarction instead on biopsy. The findings in these cases demonstrate that thallium-201 accumulation may occur by the breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and phagocytic cell infiltration in the liquefaction stage of infarction.
Biopsy ; Blood-Brain Barrier ; Brain ; Brain Neoplasms ; Cerebral Infarction* ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Infarction ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Phagocytes ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

After an outbreak of H1N1 influenza A virus infection in Mexico in late March 2009, the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert level to phase 6, and to the highest level in June 2009. The pandemic H1N1/A influenza was caused by an H1N1 influenza A virus that represents a quadruple reassortment of two swine strains, one human strain, and one avian strain of influenza. After the first case report of H1N1/A infection in early May 2009, South Korea was overwhelmed by this new kind of influenza H1N1/A pandemic, which resulted in a total of 700,000 formally reported cases and 252 deaths. In this article, clinical characteristics of victims of H1N1/A influenza infection, especially those who developed pneumonia and those who were cared for in the intensive care unit, are described. In addition, guidelines for the treatment of H1N1/A influenza virus infection victims in the ICU, which was suggested by the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine, are introduced.
Critical Care ; Humans ; Influenza A virus ; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype ; Influenza, Human ; Intensive Care Units ; Mexico ; Orthomyxoviridae ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia ; Republic of Korea ; Sprains and Strains ; Swine ; World Health Organization

No abstract available.
Broad Ligament* ; Female ; Hemorrhage* ; Pregnancy*

VEP is an objective method for the evaluation of macular function and optic nerve disease, but its large inter and intraindividual variation prevented clinical and experimental application. We recorded a relatively stable VEP A wave in pigmented rabbits with cortical electrode and following results were obtained. The amplitude of VEP A wave was 97.8 +/- 29.8 micro V and latent time was 52.2 +/- 6.9 msec. Inter- and intraindividual variation of VEP latent time was much smaller than that of VEP amplitude. So latent time of VEP A wave may be a good indicator in evaluation of pharmacologic and toxicologic experiment of systemically administered drug.
Electrodes ; Evoked Potentials, Visual* ; Optic Nerve Diseases ; Rabbits*

No abstract available.
Pericardial Effusion* ; Radionuclide Imaging* ; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate*

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of estrogen replacement therapy and pamidronate on the bone metabolism in the postmenopausal women. METHODS: This prospective randomized clinical trial examined the effects of oral pamidronate and conjugated equine estrogen, in combination and seperately, on biochemical markers of bone turnover in 140 women with low bone mass. Treatment included pamidronate (group I, n=50), or conjugated equine estrogen (group II, n=50), conjugated equine estrogen plus alendronate (group III, n=40) for 12 months. Biochemical markers of bone turnover were also measured at months 6 and 12 months. RESULTS: Serum osteocalcin and urinary deoxypyridinoline in Group I, Group II and Group III decreased signifiantly at 12 months of treatment (p<0.05). But total alkaline phosphatase decreased significantly during the treatment in Group III, but not in Group I and Group II. CONCLUSION: The combined treatment with pamidronate and conjugated equine estrogen is more effective in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis by decreasing bone biochemical markers.
Alendronate ; Alkaline Phosphatase ; Biomarkers ; Estrogen Replacement Therapy* ; Estrogens* ; Female ; Humans ; Metabolism* ; Osteocalcin ; Osteoporosis ; Postmenopause ; Prospective Studies