No abstract available.
Vibration*

To study reliability and validity of PWl, this newly developed self-administered questionnaire which measures stress, was given to medial students. All respondent(133) were followed 4 weeks later and 92 were retested. Cronbach's a coefficient of data was 0.93. Test-retest reliability measured by pearson's correlation coefficient was 0.72(p<0.01l). Exploratory factor analysis(EFA) performed by principal axis factor method without iteration and by varimax rotation explored 13 principal components(eigenvalues > l). After exploring 4 factor structure according to previous study results, factor 1 showed good agreement but other factors did not. Confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) showed poor fit of 4 factor model to data. In the further study, it may be considered to model that has unidimensional factor structure.
Axis, Cervical Vertebra ; Humans ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Reproducibility of Results*

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Thoracic Wall* ; Thorax*

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Amenorrhea* ; Female

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Amenorrhea* ; Female

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Asthma*

The heart, 500g in weight, with subacute myocarditis associated with granulomatous myocarditis may be a good model for the study on the pathophysiologic mechanism of cardiac failure. Furthermore, the clinical data of this case is enough to clarify his all clinical course from admission to death due to cardiac failure. So, we analyzed the clinical data, histologic findings, and morphometric pattern of histologically intact myocardial cells and inflammatory reaction to investigate the pathophysiologic mechanism of the cardiac failure. The results were summarized as follows. 1. Clinically, the heart showed cardiac failure of diastolic phase and abnormal conduction system related to sudden cardiac death. However, it might be adapted to the relatively stable wital signs due to pericardial positive pressure by slowlyprogressed pericardial effusion. 2. The distribution pattern of area of intact myocardial cell area and inflammtion reaction showed relatively even spread of inflammatory reaction and extremely decreased area of myocardial cells to about 21% of total heart. So, its contractility might be decreased below to the 21% of the normal cardiac contractility. 3. The mechanism of the cardiac failure in myocarditis may be sudden inflammatory involvement of conduction system and/or extremely decreased myocardial cell volume due to inflammatory destruction. 4. Morphometric analysis may be a useful objective method to grading the severity of old and recent form of myocarditis. From the above results, the cardiac failure of myocarditis is influenced by the adaptability at the inflammatory abnormality of the conduction system, contractility of injured myocardial cells, and compensation activity of pericardial effusion.
Cell Size ; Compensation and Redress ; Death, Sudden, Cardiac ; Heart ; Heart Failure* ; Myocarditis* ; Pericardial Effusion

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Brain* ; Humans ; Prolactin* ; Psychopathology*

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BACKGROUND: There are a few methods, including primary intention, deleyed primary closure and secondary intention, to irpair several types of defects. But commonly-used primary intentional repair of a defect after surgical removal of a skin cancer by graft, flap or simple closure has several limitations such as the need of a skillful technique and various complications. OBJECTIVE: We undertook a secondary intention using occlusive dressing with a polyurethane film after skin cancer surgery instead of a primary repair and evaluated its efficacy, particularly in points of simplicity and safety, and cosmetic results. METHODS: We randomly chose 14 cases of skin cancers in 13 patients who had undergone simple surgical excision or Mohs micrographic surgery and then undertook secondary intention with polyurethane film after informed consent. Postsurgical wound care included cleansing with normal saline or boric acid, then covering the defect with antibiotic ointment, gauze and film a at regular intervals.
Humans ; Informed Consent ; Intention* ; Mohs Surgery ; Occlusive Dressings ; Polyurethanes ; Skin Neoplasms* ; Skin* ; Transplants ; Wounds and Injuries