We report 22 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia treated with transurethral balloon dilation and followed for six months thereafter. Of these 22 patients, 15 patients(68.2%) demonstrated significant improvement in modified Boyarsky symptom score and/or corrected peak flow rate on six months follow-up.
Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Prostatic Hyperplasia

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Intussusception*

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Urinary Tract Infections* ; Urinary Tract*

Purpose: This study aimed to develop a motivational interviewing pulmonary rehabilitation program based on self-determination theory to maintain pulmonary rehabilitation-related health behaviors in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The program was developed by reviewing the literature on pulmonary rehabilitation guidelines, drawing on the self-determinism theory to establish its contents, recruiting experts to test its validity, and conducting a preliminary survey. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was used to confirm the effect of the program. The participants were outpatients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at three general hospitals in Busan. There were 33 subjects: 15 in the experimental group and 18 in the control group. The experimental group performed a motivational interviewing pulmonary rehabilitation program which comprised 11 sessions delivered over 10 weeks. The outcomes were measured using basic psychological needs, dyspnea, 6-minute walking distance, and functional status. Intervention effects were analyzed using repeated-measures ANOVA. Results: The analysis revealed significant differences between the experimental and control groups in competence among the subdomains of basic psychological needs, dyspnea during exercise, and functional status. Conclusion The developed program affects physical conditions and can be applied as an effective clinical nursing intervention to continuously improve the pulmonary rehabilitation behavior of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Objectives: This study used data from the seventh National Health and Nutrition Survey, a dataset which signifies that dental services in the country exhibit relatively low health insurance coverage and high copay rates compared to other medical healthcare services. We surveyed the utilization rate of dental care and the prevalence of untreated conditions among Korean elders aged over 65.Furthermore, we aimed to present policy implications to improve dental care accessibility and expand health insurance coverage for elders, especially vulnerable individuals who are bedridden or living alone. Methods: We used raw data from the seventh National Health and Nutrition Survey to investigate Korean elders’ dental service utilization and untreated conditions. We opted for elders aged over 65 and finalized 1,712 subjects for the analysis. Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS 25.0 (IBM Corp., Chicago, IL, USA). Groups were detailed in terms of strata of variation estimation and elders aged over 65, cluster of district enumeration, and weighted oral survey. We generated a scheme file and employed complex sampling analysis with a statistical significance level of P<0.05. Results: This study intended to survey the rate of dental care use and untreated care of Korean elders over 65 using the seventh National Health and Nutrition Survey data which represents our country. 1. Dental care use rate based on general traits showed statistically significant relevance (P<0.01) with lower age, higher income, higher education level, residence of ‘Dong’, and ‘with’ private insurance. 2. In untreated rate of dental care by general traits showed the significant total of 26.1% with female, lower income, lower education level, ‘recipient’ of basic living, and subjectively poor status of oral health. 3. The multiple answers of the patients who went to the dentists over the past year showed dental care details of dental checkups 54.3%, prosthetic dentistry 32.1%, preventive treatment 30.9%, cavity of root canal treatment 25.7%, gum treatment 17.1%, and tooth extraction 14.7%. 4. The reasons for untreated dental care of those untreated subjects showed the highest 34.0% of economic reason, mild condition 32.3%, lack of time 8.2%, and scared of treatment 8.0% in order. Based on this analysis, we intended to suggest policy implications for the necessity of dental checkup expansion and the activation of prevention treatment. Conclusions To improve dental care accessibility for elders aged 65 and above, especially the vulnerable individuals who are bedridden or living alone, it is imperative to expand outpatient insurance coverage and tailor the dental services as per their specific needs. Shifting the focus from treatment-oriented health insurance to preventive measures and examination service expansion and invigoration is essential to improve dental health and overall quality of life. It is deduced that expansion of dental care health insurance coverage and checkup services is critical for vulnerable elders, such as those who are bedridden or living alone.

Propofol (2,6-diisopropylphenol) is a hypnotic drug with a very rapid onset and offset of action. It has increasingly been used in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Administration of propofol by nurses or endoscopists is commonly referred to as non-anesthesiologist-administered propofol (NAAP). There have been a lot of studies on the safety of NAAP compared with those by anesthesiologists. Safety results of those studies are summarized in this review.
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal* ; Propofol*

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Antibodies* ; Female ; Hepatitis B* ; Hepatitis* ; Humans ; Pregnant Women*

PURPOSE: Alarm interventions are effective and safe treatments for nocturnal enuresis when compared with the other treatments. However, the rate of doctors prescribing enuresis alarms is quite low in Korea. This study evaluated the application conditions and treatment results of an enuresis alarm in children with enuresis in Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 147 out of 316 patients who purchased an enuresis alarm through a alarm sales agency in Korea were evaluated retrospectively. The questionnaire had two main categories: items of enuresis(number of episodes during the night, enuresis frequency during a week, etc.) and the items of the enuresis alarm(previous treatment history, a motivation of using enuresis alarm treatment, the period of using the enuresis alarm, initial success, continued success, dropout of using enuresis alarm, nocturia after treatment, etc.). RESULTS: A total 147 children participated in this study. The initial success rate was 30.6% whereas the continued success rate was 34.0%. In addition, the dropout rate was 27.2%. 46.2% of patients purchased the enuresis alarm with a doctor's prescription and 53.8% purchased the alarm without a prescription. Among the factors, the success and dropout rate were affected by only whether the patient visited the hospital. Thirty five patients who took combination therapy with medicine had a significantly lower initial success rate. CONCLUSIONS: In Korea, without a doctor's prescription, 53.7% patients attempt to treat enuresis alarm directly. The initial and continued success rate with the enuresis alarm was approximately 30% and the dropout rate was approximately 30%.
Child ; Commerce ; Enuresis ; Humans ; Korea ; Motivation ; Nocturia ; Nocturnal Enuresis ; Patient Dropouts ; Prescriptions ; Retrospective Studies

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Escherichia coli* ; Escherichia* ; Hydrogen Sulfide* ; Hydrogen*

We report a case of 34-year-old woman who had left main coronary artery disease and treated with medication only. She was presented with severe chest pain. Isolated left main coronary disease was demonstrated on selective left coronary angiography. There was no regional wall motion abnormality on echocardiogram with normal global LV systolic function. We considered the lesion as a varient of Takayasu's arteritis. So with anti-anginal medication, treatment started with steroid therapy. After then there was no chest pain. We performed follow-up coronary angiography after 1 month and 3 month in which revealed improved left main lesion. Since then there was no subjective symptom and Thallium-201 SPECT revealed no significant ischemic finding. We think that this case's underlying disease is may be Takayasu's arteritis which has isolated left main stenosis without systemic involvement and improved with medical treatement only.
Adult ; Chest Pain ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Coronary Angiography ; Coronary Artery Disease* ; Coronary Disease ; Coronary Vessels* ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Takayasu Arteritis ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon