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There were observed on the 154 cases of the chronic prostatitis confirmed by subjective complaints, rectal finding of the prostate and microscopic examination of the prostatic fluid of the patients, who had been visited to Department of Urology. Seoul Red Cross Hospital from April 1 to Sep. 30, l973. The results obtained were summarized as follows, 1) The distribution of age was between 19 years and 67 years, but ':the most common age was. from 24 to 30 years as 50 percent of the total cases. 2) The complications were urethritis on 82 cases (53.3%), epididymitis on 18 cases(11.7%), cystitis on 13 cases(8.5%), tuberculosis of urinary tract on 9 cases (5.9%). 3) Major subjective symptoms were burning on urination, perineal discomfort morning drop and generalized weakness. 4) On rectal palpation of the prostate of all the patients 83 cases(53.9%) were firm, 24 cases (15.6%) indurated, 6 cases(3.9%) nodular but 39 cases(25.9%) were normal consistency. 5) Microscopic examination of prostatic fluid was revealed of normal limit in 28 cases(18.2%) of all the patients.6) 58 percent of cages treated acculately for 2 to 16 weeks have been improved.
Burns ; Cystitis ; Digital Rectal Examination ; Epididymitis ; Humans ; Male ; Prostate ; Prostatitis* ; Red Cross ; Seoul ; Tuberculosis ; Urethritis ; Urinary Tract ; Urination ; Urology

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Liver ; Liver Failure ; Liver Failure, Acute

Toxic epidermal necrolysis is a reactive erythema of nonstaphylococcal origin characterized by a scalded appearance of the skin. The TEN is widely regarded as a variant of severe erythema multiforme because of its acute course, its freguent common cause, its freguent overlap with Stevens-Johnson disease, and its histologic identity. I present a case of TEN with severe mucosal involvement resembled Stevens-Johnson disease.
Erythema ; Erythema Multiforme ; Skin ; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome*

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Coronary Artery Bypass* ; Coronary Vessels* ; Humans

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BACKGROUND: Mycobacterial culture is a confirmatory test to detect M.tuberculosis, but it takes at least 6 weeks to diagnose. PCR is a rapid and sensitive method, but it is known that PCR has a high false positive rate due to contamination, and a high false negative rate due to inhibitors. It is also known that LCR and PCR-Hybridization, recently developed methods, are more specific methods than PCR in terms of detection M.tuberculosis. In this study, we estimated the clinical utility of in house PCR, LCR and PCR-Hybridization for the detection of M.tuberculosis. METHODS: We evaluated 75 specimens, upon which M.tuberculosis culture based testing was requested, by PCR LCR, and PCR-Hybridization and compared results. Mycobacterial culture was performed on 3% Ogawa media for 8 weeks, and an in house PCR, LCx Mycobacterium tuberculosis assay kit(Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, III) and the AMPLICOR M.tuberculosis test kit(Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. Branchburg, NJ, USA). RESULTS: In the view of the culture results, the sensitivities of the three tests were 40%, 80%, and 100% and their specificities were 98.6%, 94.3%, and 94.3%. CONCLUSION: LCR and PCR-Hybridization and rapid and sensitive methods for detecting M.tuberculosis in clinical laboratories.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis ; Polymerase Chain Reaction* ; Tuberculosis*

Elephantiasis nostras, the result of recurrent skin infection or chronic lymphedema is characterized by marked skin fibrosis and massive enlargement of a body part. We present a case of elephantiasis nostras due to chronic recurrent erysipelas which affected the lower extremities in a 62-year-old man. The patient had had persisting non-pitting edema, and tender multiple verrucous brownish plaques and nodules on both lower legs for 1 year. On histological examination, there was hyperkeratosis and papilomatosis in the epidermis, fibroplasia, dilated thick walled venules and collagen fibers oriented vertical to the skin surface, and hyperplasia of eccrine ducts in the dermis.
Collagen ; Dermis ; Edema ; Elephantiasis* ; Epidermis ; Erysipelas ; Fibrosis ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Leg ; Lower Extremity ; Lymphedema ; Middle Aged ; Skin ; Venules

PURPOSE: Recently, two tests are commercially available for the identification of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI): tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA). Due to its false positiveness, TST tends to be preferred by IGRA until now. In our study, we simultaneously performed both TST and QuantiFERON(R)-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) and compared their results. METHODS: TST and QFT-GIT were done for the diagnosis of LTBI among children who visited pediatric out-patient clinic at St. Vincent's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea from February of 2007 to May of 2008. The study group was stratified into two groups in terms of whether there was intrafamilial contact or not. RESULTS: Out of total 35 children, 29 were tuberculosis (TB)-exposed cases and the remainders were diagnosed as clinical pulmonary TB. Among these 29 children, TST was positive 38.9% (7/18) for the intrafamilial and 45.5% (5/11) for the non-intrafamilial, and at the same time, the result for QFT-GIT was positive 5.6% (1/18) and 9.1% (1/11), respectively which implies that TST was more sensitive than QFT-GIT. Among 29 TB-exposed cases, 26 initially went through TST and QFT-GIT together on their first visit to out-patient clinic, and 15 continued the follow-up tests. Out of total 41 cases collected, the agreement (known as kappa value) was 0.063 which was relatively low. Including 6 cases with pulmonary TB who were all positive for TST and only 5 being positive for QFT-GIT, the final kappa value was 0.334. CONCLUSION: In our study, the agreement for TST and QFT-GIT was low, and the majorities were almost the cases of positive TST. In current situation with lacking a gold standard test and limited data on children to adolescents, this result is quite alarming that the recent trend tends to replace TST by QFT-GIT when diagnosing LTBI.
Adolescent ; Child ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Interferon-gamma Release Tests ; Korea ; Latent Tuberculosis ; Outpatients ; Skin ; Skin Tests ; Tuberculin ; Tuberculosis

To delineate the individual role of follicular dendritic cells (FDC) and T cells at each stage of GC B cell differentiation at the clonal level and to analyze the signals required for the differentiation, we developed an experimental model using an FDC line, HK and a lymphoma cell line, L3055 for centroblasts. Phenotypic analysis of L 3055 revealed its origin of GC and the homogeneity. L3055 cells undergo spontaneous apoptosis when cultured in the absence of HK cells. L3055 cells proliferate continuously in the presence of HK cells, while they differentiate into a population with the phenotype of centrocytes after stimulation with CD40 ligand (CD 40L) plus IL-2, IL-4 and IL-10. L3055 undergo anti-Ig-mediated apoptosis, which is not protected by HK but by CD40L and the cytokines. These experimental results suggest that FDC provide signals for the survival and rapid proliferation of centroblasts and T cells trigger the differentiation of centroblasts into centrocytes.
Apoptosis ; CD40 Ligand ; Cell Differentiation* ; Cell Line ; Cytokines ; Dendritic Cells, Follicular ; Germinal Center* ; Interleukin-10 ; Interleukin-2 ; Interleukin-4 ; Lymphoma ; Models, Theoretical ; Phenotype ; T-Lymphocytes