To compare the efficiency, success rate and abortion time of applications of intravaginal misoprostol versus intravenous Sulprostone(Nalador) for mid-trimester pregnancy termination. Eighty three patients between 17-29 weeks of gestation with medical, obstetric, or genetic reasons for termination of pregnancy were randomized to receive either 50 ug tablets of misoprostol placed in the posterior vaginal fomix or 1,000ug sulprostone intravenously diluted I L of isotonic saline solution given as a 12-h infusion. Among eighty three patients recruited, fourty five patients received misoprostol and thirty eight patients received sulprostone intravenously. The average interval from start of induction to vaginal delivery was 13.35+/-3.34 hours in misoprostol group and 21.14+/-6.64 hours in the sulprostone group. The success rate of complete termination within 12 and 24 hours in misoprostol group were 57.7%, 93.3%, respectively, while in sulprostone group were 15.8%, 92.1% respectively. Oxytocin augumentation was 6.7% in misoprostol group and 7.9% in the sulprostone group. No serious complication occurred. Intravaginal misoprostol appears to be acceptably safe and effective agents for second trimester pregnancy termination. Misoprostol has the advantage of being inexpensive, easily stored and readily available. The regimen of 100 ug misoprostol inserted intracervicovaginally every 8 hours is the optimal method for pregnancy termination.
Female ; Humans ; Misoprostol* ; Oxytocin ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy Trimester, Second* ; Sodium Chloride ; Tablets

In September 1998, a case of nosocomial cutaneous myiasis caused by Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) in a 77-year-old male was found. The patient had been receiving partial maxillectomy due to the presence of malignant tumor on premaxilla. This is the first verified case involving Lucilia sericata in Taegu, Korea. In the present paper, the salient morphological features of the third instar larvae involved have been studied.
Aged ; Animals ; Cross Infection/*parasitology ; Diptera/ultrastructure ; Face ; Human ; Larva/ultrastructure ; Male ; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning ; Myiasis/*parasitology ; Skin Diseases, Parasitic/*parasitology ; Surgical Wound Infection/*parasitology

Chronic ulcerative colitis is a systemic inflammatory disease with uncertain etiology primarily involving the colonic mucosa. The mucosal biopsy interpretation is important for an evaluation of the disease state and further medical or surgical treatment. However, few clinical and pathological studies of the endoscopic diagnosis of this disease are available in Korea. Therefore, we evaluated the clinical and pathological characteristics of it diagnosed by endoscopic biopsy and analysed the reasons for the discrepancy between clinical and pathologic diagnosis for a more accurate endoscopic mucosal biopsy diagnosis in the future. A total of 702 cases of colonic mucosal biopsy specimens during Feb. 1994 and Jan. 1995 at Severance hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine were reevaluated for the study. A clinical diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, after endoscopic examination, was made in 61(8.7%) cases. A pathological diagnosis was made when there is an increased inflammatory cell infiltration in the mucosa with evidences of a chronic crypt injury in the biopsy specimens. Using this criteria, a diagnosis was made in 32(52.3%) cases. In 29 cases the diagnosis was made in the first biopsy specimen and in the remaining 3 cases the diagnosis was made in the second or third biopsy specimens. No pathologic diagnosis of ulcerative colitis was made in the cases that clinical diagnosis was not. In the 32 cases diagnosed as ulcerative colitis, 14 cases were involved the rectum and sigmoid colon, 9 cases were involved up to the descending colon, 1 case was involved up to the transverse colon and 8 cases showed pancolonic involvement. In 29 cases, which ulcerative colitis was suspected clinically but was not consistent with it pathologically, 8 cases were proved to be ischemic colitis, 5 cases were acute infectious colitis and one case was Crohn's disease by repeat examination and follow up. Ten cases were histologically within normal range and lesions subsided spontaneously with no recurrence. A conclusive diagnosis could not be made in 5 cases during this study period. From these results, we conclude that ulcerative colitis can be diagnosed accurately by endoscopic biopsy, and clinical follow up and repeat examination are valuable in the differential diagnosis of this disease.
Diagnosis, Differential ; Biopsy

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Heart Valve Diseases* ; Heart Valves* ; Heart*

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Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast*

The papA gene in uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains was characterized by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)- PCR. One hundred four E. coli strains from patients with urinary tract infections and 32 strains from healthy persons were examined. Thirty seven (27.2%) strains (33 from patients, 4 from healthy persons) in the 136 E. coli strains were positive in mannose resistant hemagglutination (MRHA) test. The adherence of MRHA positive strains to HEp-2 cells was greater than those of MRHA negative isolates (p<0.001). PapA-PCR were positive in 25% (26/104) of the strains from patients, and 3.1% (1/32) of the strains from healthy persons. Among 27 papA-positive isolates, subtypes were identified by RFLP as 8 (29.6%) F7z, 3 (11.1%) F9, 4 (14.8%) F12, and 4 (14.8%) F13. Six groups with novel RFLP patterns were detected, also. The subtypes of P-fimbriae was highly similar to each other by ERIC-PCR.
Consensus ; Hemagglutination ; Humans ; Mannose ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length ; Urinary Tract Infections ; Uropathogenic Escherichia coli*

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Gels* ; Lipopolysaccharides* ; Silver* ; Sodium*

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Breast* ; Female ; Humans ; Korea* ; Mammaplasty*

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Although thalamic stroke is the most frequent cause of pure sensory stroke, non-thalamic strokes have been also occasionally reported to produce pure sensory stroke(PSS). We attempt to characterize the clinical and radiological features of 11 patients with PSS due to brainstem stroke. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: There were eight men and three women and their age ranged from 50 to 71 years. Their risk factors included hypertension in 10, diabetes mellitus in 2, hyperlipidemia in 3, alcohol drinking in 3 and cigarette smoking in 2. All underwent brain computed tomography(n=11) and/or magnetic resonance imaging(n=8). RESULTS: Five patients presented with pure lemniscal sensory deficits(position and vibration sensation); two presented with abnormalities in all sensory modalities but dominantly involving lemniscal sensation; remaining 4 presented with numbness only. Four patients had cheiro-oral syndrome with bilateral perioral involvement. Imaging studies showed that 6 patients had a small infarct in the paramedian pontine tegmentum, which was thought to be caused by small vessel(lacunar) inclusion. One patient had a small infarct in the lateral part of the midbrain which was probably caused by artery-to-artery embolism originated from mid-basilar stenosis. In addition, four patients had small hypertensive hemorrhage affecting the pontine tegmentum. CONCLUSION: Our result confirms that PSS can be caused by small brainstem stroke of various etiopathology, frequently involving the paramedian pontine tegmentum PSS due to braimtem stroke may be characterized by predom inant lemniscal sensory involvement and occasional bilateral perioral symptoms.
Alcohol Drinking ; Brain ; Brain Stem Infarctions ; Brain Stem* ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Embolism ; Female ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Hyperlipidemias ; Hypertension ; Hypesthesia ; Male ; Mesencephalon ; Risk Factors ; Sensation ; Smoking ; Stroke* ; Vibration

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Child* ; Glomerulonephritis* ; Humans