Comparative assessment of left ventricular volume curves using echocardiography, gated radionuclide angiography, and contrast left ventriculography was done in 11 cases of valvular heart disease. The parameters obtained from the left ventricular volume curves are enddiastolic volume (EDV), endsystolic volume(ESV), stroke volume(SV), and ejection fraction(EF). The parameters obtained from derivative curves of the left ventricular volume curves are peak ejection rate(PER), peak filling rate(PFR), time to peak ejection rate(TTPER), and time to peak filling rate(TTPFR). All the parameters(EDV, ESV, SV, and EF) obtained from left ventricular volume curves using three methods relate significantly each to each. The shapes of the left ventricular volume curves obtained from three methods were similar to each other. Without significant differences, noninvasive methods can be applied for serial and repetitive left ventricular volume curve analysis.
Echocardiography* ; Gated Blood-Pool Imaging* ; Heart Valve Diseases ; Stroke

A clinical study was made on 434 patients of valvular heart disease admitted to the Seoul National University Hospital during the period of November 1971-February 1978. The results were obtained as follows: 1) The number of valvular heart disease was 434 patients, which accounts for 2.6% of the total hospitalized patients during the same period. The sex incidence of valvular heart disease were female 48.6%, male 51.4%. The incidences of each valvular heart disease were mitral stenoinsufficiency 31.8%, mitral stenosis 24.2%, mitral insufficiency 21.0%, combined valvular heart disease 12.2%, aortic insufficiency 7.1%, aortic stenoinsufficiency 1.6%, pulmonic stenosis 1.4%, and aortic stenosis 0.7%, in order. 61.5% of all were in third to fifth decade in age distribution. 2) The following were found as etiological factors: rheumatic fever 36.4%, atherosclerosis 1.6%, syphilis 0.9%, and unknown and others 61.3%. 3) The main subjective symptoms were dyspnea, palpitation, cough, orthopnea, sputum, chest pain, fatigue, blood tinged sputum, dizziness, and headache. And the main objective finding were hepatomegaly, venous engorgement, edema, pulmonary congestion, thrill, ascites, splenomegaly, malar flush, and finger clubbing. 5) The disturbance of liver function were found in about 30% of valvular heart disease. 6) The abnormalities of electrocardiographic findings were observed as follows: atrial fibrillation 55.1%, ventricular premature beat 15.2%, first degree atrioventricular block 8.5%, incomplete right bundle branch block 4.1%, complete right bundle branch block 1.4%, second degree atrioventricular block 0.9%, and left bundle branch block 0.9%, in rhythm and conduction disturbance, and left ventricular hypertrophy 44%, right ventricular hypertrophy 18.2%, biventricular hypertrophy 4.6%, left atrial enlargement 19.8%, and right atrial enlargement 3.2%, in chamber enlargement.
Age Distribution ; Aortic Valve Stenosis ; Ascites ; Atherosclerosis ; Atrial Fibrillation ; Atrioventricular Block ; Bundle-Branch Block ; Cardiac Complexes, Premature ; Chest Pain ; Cough ; Dizziness ; Dyspnea ; Electrocardiography ; Estrogens, Conjugated (USP) ; Fatigue ; Female ; Fingers ; Headache ; Heart Valve Diseases* ; Hepatomegaly ; Humans ; Hyperemia ; Hypertrophy ; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular ; Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular ; Incidence ; Liver ; Male ; Mitral Valve Insufficiency ; Mitral Valve Stenosis ; Pulmonary Edema ; Pulmonary Valve Stenosis ; Rheumatic Fever ; Seoul ; Splenomegaly ; Sputum ; Syphilis ; Tolnaftate

Echocardiographic right ventricular systolic time invervals were measured in 69 cases of congenital and acquired valvular heart disease, who have neither arrhythmia nor conduction disturbances. The results were as follows: 1) Right ventricular preejection periord(RVPEP) relates with main pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (MPA(s)), main pulmonary arterial diastolic pressure (MPA(d)), main pulmonary arterial mean pressure (MPA(m)), pulmonary vascular resistance (Rp), and the ratio of pulmonary systemic vascular resistance (Rp/Rs) (r=0.746, 0.738, 0.755, 0.721, 0.687). 2) Rifht ventricular ejection time relates with MPA (s), MPA (d), MPA (m), Rp, and Rp/Rs (r=-0.580, -0.541, -0.544, -0.577, -0.420). 3) The ratio of right ventricular preejection period-right ventricular ejection time (RVPEP/RVET) relates with MPA (s), MPA (d), MPA (m), Rp and Rp/Rs (r=0.789, 0.784, 0.781, 0.778, 0.695). 4) Pulmonary hypertension and increased pulmonary vascular resistance can be predicted, when RVPEP/RVET is over 0.3. 5) By serial preoperative and postoperative measurements, pulmonary hypertension and increased pulmonary vascular resistance were relieved in the cases of mitral stenosis. But in the cases of congenital heart diseas there were no significant change in RVPEP/RVET ratio.
Adult* ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; Blood Pressure ; Echocardiography* ; Heart ; Heart Valve Diseases ; Humans ; Hypertension, Pulmonary ; Mitral Valve Stenosis ; Systole* ; Vascular Resistance

BACKGROUND: Spontaneous echo contrast(SEC) is known to predict the increased incidence of thromboembolism in a variety of heart diseases. Transesophageal echocardiography can be useful for the detection of SEC due to proximity of the probe to the left atrium. We performed this study (1) to evaluate the incidence of SEC in mitral stenosis and its relation to the past history of thromboembolism and (2) to characterize the echocardiographic and hemodynamic indices in patients with SEC compared with those without SEC. METHODS: Transesophageal and thransthoracic echocardiographies were done in 89 patients with mitral stenosis. Biplane probe was used in transesophageal echocardiography. In 47patients cardiac catheterization and angiography were performed. RESULTS: (1) SEC was found in 56 out of 89 patients(63%), and left atrial thrombus was found in 32 patients. (2) Left atrial dimension was larger in patients with SEC than in patients without SEC(57.3%+/-8.4mm vs 49.3+/-6.8mm, p<0.05) and mitrial valve area was smaller in patients with SEC than in patients without SEC(0.85+/-0.27cm2 vs 0.97+/-0.24cm2) (3) Association of SEC to thrombi or previous history of arterial embolism showed a high sensitivity and negative predictive value. CONCLUSION: SEC was an useful finding to predict the increased risk of thromboembolism in patients with mitral stenosis. Patients with SEC had severe mitral stenosis than patients without SEC.
Angiography ; Cardiac Catheterization ; Cardiac Catheters ; Echocardiography ; Echocardiography, Transesophageal* ; Embolism ; Heart Atria ; Heart Diseases ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Incidence ; Mitral Valve Stenosis ; Thromboembolism ; Thrombosis

Human papillomavirus (HPV) 16/18 is a causative agent of uterine cervical carcinoma. HPV 16/18 can alter cell cycle regulation through apoptosis. Bcl-2 is an important regulatory gene of apoptosis. A study was done to evaluate the relation between HPV 16/18 and bcl-2 and apoptosis in 21 cases of carcinoma in-situ (CIS), 5 cases of microinvasive carcinoma and 23 cases of invasive squamous cell carcinoma. HPV 16/18 was detected by hybrid capture system (HCS), bcl-2 protein by immunohistochemical method and apoptosis by using the hematoxylin-eosin stained slide. The results were as follows: Expression of the bcl-2 protein was 43% (9/21) in CIS and 26% (6/23) in invasive carcinoma. Expression of the bcl-2 protein was 42% (5/12) in CIS with HPV 16/18 infection, 44% in CIS without HPV 16/18 infection, 20% (2/10) in invasive carcinoma with HPV 16/18 infection and 31% (4/13) in invasive carcinoma without HPV 16/18 infection. Mean apoptotic index (mAI) was 3.36 in CIS, 5.23 in microinvasive and 6.25 in invasive carcinoma. mAI was 3.66 in CIS with HPV 16/18 infection, 2.86 in CIS without HPV 16/18 infection, 6.18 in invasive carcinoma with HPV 16/18 infection and 6.30 in invasive carcinoma without HPV 16/18 infection. Based on these results, we conclude that there are no correlation between HPV infection and bcl-2, and between HPV infection and apoptosis in invasive and in situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix, and apoptosis is increased according to tumor progression.
Apoptosis* ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* ; Cell Cycle ; Cervix Uteri* ; Female ; Genes, Regulator ; Humans

No abstract available.
Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital* ; Adrenogenital Syndrome*

Eccrine spiradenomas are clinically characterized by a solitary, tender mass and they are situated on the upper parts of the body, predominantly on the ventral aspect. We herein report two cases of eccrine spiradenoma in 35-year-old man and 53-year-old woman, which located on upper extremity and inguinal region. The masses are round, well circumscribed and measuring 0.7x0.5x0.5 cm, 5x4.5x3 cm in size, respectively. Histopathologically, the tumor consists of masses of two types of cells, intensely staining cells and pale staining cells, usually arranged in chains, cords and pseudoglands. Immunostainings for low molecular cytokeratin, high molecular cytokeratin, carcinoembryonic antigen, and S-100 protein show positivity in neoplastic cells. Electron microscopically, the tumor was composed of three types of cells, i. e. 1) round or ovoid tumor cells in shape with scanty cytoplasm and poorly developed intracytoplasmic orgenelles, 2) spindle shaped dark cells interconnected by desmosomes, 3) large epithelial cells with abundant cytoplasm and cytoplasmic intermediate filaments which formed glandular structures. The large epithelial cells joint each other by desmosomal attachments and luminal cells featured small numbers of microvilli, but either secretory granules nor ductal type granules were noticed.
Female ; Male ; Humans

No abstract available.
Fallopian Tubes* ; Female ; Pregnancy*

The antihypertensive effects fo aldactazide and serum electrolytes changes before and after treatment with aldactazide were observed. The followings were obtained: 1. Results of antihypertensive therapy with aldactazide in 23 hypertensive patients revealed good effects in 52.17%, fair in 26.09%, poor in 8.7%, and failure in 13.04% of cases. In 78.26% of cases, good or fair control of blood pressure was obtained. 2. Daily doses of aldactazide ranged from 25mg to 50mg depending upon the level of blood pressure. The antihypertensive effects were appeared after average 11 days of administration. 3. The side effects during treatment with aldactazide were dizziness, weakness, indigestion, headache, and restlessness in 26.28% of cases (6 of 23 cases). 4. No significant changes in serum Na and K values were observed before and after treatment with aldactazide for average 23 days.
Blood Pressure ; Dizziness ; Dyspepsia ; Electrolytes ; Headache ; Humans ; Psychomotor Agitation

The antihypertensive effects of once-daily 50mg dose of atenolol(Tenormin(R)) were observed in 28 cases of essential hypertension, and the results were as follows. 1. Mean drop in systolic and diastolic pressure were 19mmHg and 16mmHg respectively. 2. In 85.7% of the cases good or fair control of blood pressure was resulted. 3. Transient indigestion and fatigue were complained by 3 patients, but subsided spontaneously with continuous treament.
Blood Pressure ; Dyspepsia ; Fatigue ; Humans ; Hypertension