We report a case of para.psoriasis variegata in a 19 year-old male patient wha has brownish flat scaly papules that are confluent in a retiform pattern characterized by symmetrical distribution on trunk and upper extremities. A skin biopsy specimen showed hyperkeratosis, focaI parakeratosis, hyperpigmentation of basal cell layer, and a mild lymphocytic perivascular infiltrate. No evidence was found for a relationship to lymphoma.
Biopsy ; Humans ; Hyperpigmentation ; Lymphoma ; Male ; Parakeratosis ; Parapsoriasis* ; Skin ; Upper Extremity ; Young Adult

The purpose of this study is to investigate factors related to the intent of using home nursing of chronic disease patients who got out of a university hospital. For the purpose. the study selected 153 patients who were hospitalized and left K university hospital with diagnoses of cancer. hypertension. diabetes and cerebral vascular accident and ordered to be discharged and performed interviews with them and surveys on their medical records to obtain the following results. For this study a direct-interview survey and medical record review was conducted from June 28 to Aug. 30. 1998. The frequency and mean values were computed to find the characteristics of the study subjects. and chi-test. t-test. factor analysis and multiple logistic regession analysis were applied for the analysis of the data. The following results were obtained. 1) When characteristics of the subjects were examined. men and women occupied for 58.8 % and 41.2 %. respectively. The subjects were 41.3 years old in average and had the monthly average earning of 0.99 million won or below. which was the most out of the total subjects at 34.6 %. Among the total. 87.6% resided in cities and 12.4 in counties. The most left the hospital with diagnosis of cancer at 51.6 %. followed by hypertension at 24.2%. diabetes at 13.7% and cerebral vascular accident at 7.2%. 2) 93.5% of the selected patients had the intent of using home nursing and 6.5%. didn't. Among those patients having the intent. 85.6% had the intent of paying for home nursing and 14.4%. didn't. The subjects expected that the nursing would be paid 9.143 won in average and 47.7 % of them preferred national authorities as the mam servers. 86.3% of the subjects thought that home nursing business had the main advantage of making it possible to learn nursing methods at home and thereby contributing to improving the ability of patients and their facilities to solve health problems. 3) Relations between the intent of use and characteristics of the subjects such as demography-related social. home environment. disease and physical function characteristics did not show statistically significant differences among one another. Compared to those who had no intent of using home nursing. the group having the intent had more cases of male patients. the age of 39 or below. residence in cities. 5 family members or more, no existence of home nursing servers, leaving the hospital from a non-hospitalized building, disease development for five months or below, hospitalization for ten days or more, non-hospitalization within the recent one month, two times or over of hospitalization, leaving the hospital with no demand of special treatment, operation underwent, poor results of treatment, leaving the hospital with demand of rehabilitation services, physical disablement and high evaluation point of daily life. 4) Among those patients having the intent of using home nursing, 47.6% demanded technical nursing and 55.9%, supportive nursing. As technical nursing, 'inject into a blood vessel' and 'treat pustule and teach basic prevention methods occupied for 57.4%, respectively, topping the list. Among demands of supportive nursing, 'observe patients' status and refer them to hospitals or community resources as available, if necessary' was the most with percentage point of 59.5. Regarding the intent of paying for home nursing, 39.2% of those patients wishing to use the nursing responded paying for technical services and 20.2, supportive services. In detail. 70.0% wanted to pay for a service stated as 'inject into a blood vessel' , highest among the former services and 30.7%, a service referred to as 'teaching exercises needed to make the body of patients move', highest among the latter. When this was analyzed in terms of a relation between the need(the need for home nursing) and the demand(the intent of paying for home nursing), The rate of the need to the demand was found two or three times higher in technical nursing(0.82) than in supportive nursing(0.35). In aspects of technical nursing, muscle injection(0.26, the 1st rank) was highest in the rate while among aspects of supportive nursing. a service referred to as 'teach exercises needed for making patients move their bodies normally' (0.58, the 1st rank). 5) factors I(satisfaction with hospital services), II(recognition of disease state), III(economy) and IV(period of disease) occupied for 34.4, 13.8, 11.9 and 9.2 percents, respectively among factors related to the intent by the subjects of using home nursing, totaled 59.3%. In conclusion, most of chronic disease patients have the intent of using hospital-based home nursing and satisfaction with hospital services is a factor affecting the intent most. Thus a post-management system is needed to continue providing health management to those patients after they leave the hospital. Further, supportive services should be provided in order that those who are satisfied with hospital services return to their community and live their independent lives. Based on these results, the researcher would make the following recommendation. 1) Because home nursing becomes more and more needed due to a sharp increase in chronic disease patients and elderly people, related rules and regulations should be made and implemented. 2) Hospital nurses specializing in home nursing should be cultivated.
Aged ; Chronic Disease ; Commerce ; Diagnosis ; Exercise ; Female ; Home Nursing* ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Male ; Medical Records ; Nursing ; Rehabilitation ; Social Control, Formal

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Korea* ; Prevalence* ; Syphilis*

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Ciliary Motility Disorders*

PURPOSE: We investigated reproducibility of the quantification of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction, and grading of myocardial wall motion and systolic thickening when we used gated myocardial SPECT and Cedars quantification software. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed gated myocardial SPECT in 33 consecutive patients twice in the same position after Tc-99m-MIBI SPECT. We used 16 frames per cycle for the gatingof sequential Tc-99m-MTBI SPECT. After reconstruction, we used Cedars quantitative gated SPECT and calculated ventricular volume and ejection fraction (EF), Wall motion was graded using 5 point score. Wall thickening was graded using 4 point score. Coefficient of variation for re-examination of volume and fraction were calculated. Kappa values (k-value) for assessing reproducibility of wall motion or wall thickening were calculated. RESULTS: Enddiastolic volumes (EDV) ranged from 58 mi to 248 ml (122 ml +/- 42 ml), endsystolic volumes (ESV) from 20 mi to 174 mi (65 ml +1- 39 ml), and EF from 20% to 68% (51% +/- 14%). Geometric mean of standard deviations of 33 patients was 5.0 ml for EDV, 3.9 ml for ESV and 1.9% for EF. Their average differences were not different from zero (p>0.05). k-value for wall motion using 2 consecutive images was 0.76 (confidence interval: 0.71-0.81). k-value was 0.87 (confidence interval:0.83-0.90) for assessment of wall thickening. CONCLUSION: We concluded that quantification of functional indices, assessment of wall motion and wall thickening using gated Tc-99m-MIBI SPECT was reproducible and we could use this method for the evaluation of short-acting drug effect.
Heart ; Humans ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*

The authors experienced a newborn infant of Osteogenesis imperfecta. Patient is characterized by multiple fracture of bone, blue sclera, and deformity of long bone. The review of literature was made briefly.
Congenital Abnormalities ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Osteogenesis Imperfecta ; Osteogenesis* ; Sclera

BACKGROUND: The implementation of intraoperative normovolemic hemodilution is a strategy used in an attempt to diminish the need for or obviate allogeneic transfusion and to avert the potential complications. The goal of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of moderate intraoperative normovolemic hemodilution. METHODS: Fifteen patients scheduled for posterolateral spinal fusion underwent intraoperative normovolemic hemodilution with 10% pentastarch to a target hematocrit level of 25% (hemodilution group). All units of blood procured by hemodilution and additional allogeneic blood was transfused in the perioperative period to maintain the hematocrit level of>25%. We investigated the effect of hemodilution on whole blood coagulation as measured by the thromboelastography and, evaluated its efficacy of decreasing the need for allogeneic blood transfusion as compared to the nonhemodilution group, retrospectively. RESULTS: Hemodilution with pentastarch caused a decrease in response and coagulation time (p<0.01) but did not influence on the alpha angle and maximum amplitude on thromboelstogram. Amount of transfusion of allogeneic blood was 4.1 1.7 units for the hemodilution group and 5.0 1.5 units for the nonhemodilution group. Net red blood cell volume ""saved"" from hemodilution was about 120 ml. CONCLUSION: Moderate intraoperative normovolemic hemodilution with pentastarch does not affect the coagulability of whole blood. But its efficacy of decreasing the need for allogeneic blood transfusion is minimal.
Blood Coagulation ; Blood Transfusion ; Erythrocytes ; Hematocrit ; Hemodilution* ; Humans ; Hydroxyethyl Starch Derivatives ; Perioperative Period ; Retrospective Studies ; Spinal Fusion* ; Thrombelastography

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Carcinoid Tumor*

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Myocarditis* ; Stomach*

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Ependymoma* ; Epidermal Cyst* ; Third Ventricle*