No Abstract Available.
Hepacivirus* ; Hepatitis C* ; Hepatitis*

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Child ; Coronary Vessels* ; Echocardiography ; Humans

No abstract available.
Humans ; Radionuclide Imaging*

Pulmonary aspergillosis is classified as a saprophytic, allergic, and invasive disease. Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis is categorized as an invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Most invasive pulmonary aspergillosis have acute and toxic clinical features but chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis is characterized by a sub-acute infection, most commonly seen in patients with altered local defense system from preexisting pulmonary disease of in mild immunocompromised patients. Pulmonary artery aneurysm due to this infection is termed as a mycotic aneurysm, etiology of which are tuberculosis, syphilis, bacteria and fungus. We report a case chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis complicating pulmonary aneurysm is a 62 year-old man who was presented with cough, sputum, and fever. Chest radiographs showed a rapid, progressive cavitary lesion and pulmonary artery aneurysm. Angioinvastion of aspergillus was revealed by pathology after operative removal of left upper lobe containing the pulmonary artery aneurysm. He was treated with itraconazole.
Aneurysm* ; Aneurysm, Infected ; Aspergillus ; Bacteria ; Cough ; Fever ; Fungi ; Humans ; Immunocompromised Host ; Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis* ; Itraconazole ; Lung Diseases ; Pathology ; Pulmonary Artery* ; Pulmonary Aspergillosis ; Radiography, Thoracic ; Sputum ; Syphilis ; Tuberculosis

In the situations that intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has revolutionized the treatment of male infertility, there appeared some needs to evaluate the role of microsurgical single tubular epididymovasostomy (EV). The outcome of microsurgical single tubular EV for obstructive azoospermia patients was retrospectively reviewed in 61 patients who had been followed for more than 18 months postoperatively. The overall patency rate followed surgery was 69% (42/61 patients), and live-birth rate was 31% (19/61 patients). Of these 19 men 13 were able to impregnate their partners; 6 of the 19 live-birth were achieved with the assistance of conventional IVF. Previously known prognostic factors-etiology, preoperative testis biopsy findings and intraoperative presence of sperm or motile sperm- all did not affect the patency and pregnancy rate. The live-birth rate of ICSI has been reported about 20~40%. Our results suggest that microsurgical single tubular EV is the preferential method to treat obstructive azoospermia patients concerning the merits of natural pregnancy and high patency rate. ICSI would be applied to the patients with patent anastomoses who have failed to achieve natural pregnancy. We think that microsurgical single tubular EV in obstructive azoospermia patients should be performed more actively by well-trained urologists in more expanded indications.
Azoospermia ; Biopsy ; Humans ; Infertility, Male ; Male ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy Rate ; Retrospective Studies ; Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic* ; Spermatozoa ; Testis

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Bilirubin* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn*

Of 22 cases of strabismus having surgical operations designed on the basis of A-scan ultrasonography, 19(86%) had less than 10 prism diopters eso-or exodeviation at least 2 months postoperatively; 19 exo-and 3 esodeviations were included in the series. Among 3 cases which had more than 10 prism diopters deviation at final follow up, a true divergence excess type exotropia and a nonaccommodative convergence excess type esotropia were included. With the exception of these 2 cases, 19 among 20 basic tropias(95%) had less than 10 prism diopters deviation. A-scan ultrasonography was done preoperatively to find the diameter and thus the circumference of the globe. This was used with the angle of deviation to estimate the amount of recession and/or resection necessary to correct the deviation. Attention was drawn not to exceed the safe range of recession by considering the oculomotor equator.
Esotropia ; Exotropia ; Follow-Up Studies ; Ocular Motility Disorders ; Strabismus* ; Ultrasonography*

No abstract available.
Aortic Coarctation*

No abstract available.
Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid*

PURPOSE: We performed the study prospectively to evaluate the advantage of fat suppression MR in the diagnosis of rotator cuff injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ten symptomatic patients were studied with both conventional T2WI and FST2WI using chemical shift technique. Each image was analyzed for the assessnent of injuries, conspicuity of the lesion, the presence of effusion in subacromial bursae and joint space, and presence of humeral head injury. Arthroscopy was done in 4 patients following MRI. RESULTS: We could made presumptive diagnoses on FSMR as identical as on conventional MR in six cases(1 normal, 2 tendinitis, 2 partial thickness tear, 1 full thickness tear), two of them were confirmed by arthroscopic procedures. Two cases of partial thickness tear proved by arthroscopy were detected on FST2WI, whereas they were considered tendinitis on conventional T2Wl. There were another 2 cases who showed tendinitis on FSMR, but normal on conventional T2Wl. They, however, were not confirmed by either arthroscopy or surgical procedure. CONCLUSION: We found the FSMR were superior to conventional T2Wl in the conspicuity of lesions and detection of joint effusion and abnormalities on the humeral head. We think FSMR of the shoulder could have significant diagnostic advantages over the conventional spin-echo MR imaging.
Arthroscopy ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Humeral Head ; Joints ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Prospective Studies ; Rotator Cuff* ; Shoulder ; Tendinopathy