Background: Hemophilia is the most common clotting disorder in the hereditary blood clotting disorders causing harm to health and psychology. The disease can lead to disability and leave the burden on families and society as well as the development of race\r\n', u"Objectives: To study the familial characteristics of haemophiliacs treated at Regional Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center of Hue Central Hospital. Subject and method: This was a prospective study. It included 48 patients diagnosed and treated Haemophilia A and B at Regional Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center of Hue Central Hospital from 7/2005 - 8/2007. Results: In 48 patients, there were 23 patients who had obviously familial history (included 12 families). They were siblings, cousins, maternal grandfathers or mother's brothers. Among 67 haemophiliacs, 23 haemophiliacs had been studied (34.32%), 30 haemophiliacs died of the disease (44.77%). Most of them died at childhood, below age of 15 years (80.64%). Conclusion: Numbers of deaths in the family was not related to the severity of the disease. The age of clinical detection, morphology, number, site, characteristics of haemorrhage as well as the level of articuar injures were not completely the same between the haemophiliacs of the same family. \r\n", u'\r\n', u'
Hemophilia A/ history ; pathology

China ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Pathology ; education ; history

A case of teratoma in a male patient aged 53 years old at the liver left lobe, hospitalized 25 November 2002 at The Hospital 198 was persented. It was a special form of mature teratoma of dermoid cyst. Macroscopically, it was a cyst of large size with thick fibroid shell, containing fat fluid, caseinous matter, hair, cartilaginous bone and even 3 molar teeth. Microscopically, it was a lining of cells of keratinoid epithelial scale tissue in the wall. Under the epithelial cover there was a conjunctive tissue inserted by sebacenous tissues, sweat gland tissues, hair alveoli and vessels with thick fibrous wall.
Teratoma ; Liver ; Diagnosis ; Pathology ; History

Anniversaries and Special Events ; Authorship ; China ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Pathology ; history ; Periodicals as Topic ; history

History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; International Agencies ; history ; Pathology ; education ; history

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Erythrocytes/*pathology ; Hematologic Diseases/blood/*diagnosis/history/pathology ; *Hematology/history/methods ; History, 20th Century ; Humans

Young-Jo, 83 years old, was the longest lived king of the Chosun Dynasty. Seungjeongwon Ilgi gives more detail about the diseases and prescriptions of Young-Jo. We could close look at what the Annals of the Chosun Dynasty just described that king received medical attention. In inspecting Jung-Jo's constitution, to examine his medical history is very important. Yong-jo had a weak constitution, but he was always concerned about health care. Youn-jo complained of colic syndrom and heart fire when young; ascris and shoulder pain since middle age; severe fatigue and gait disturbance caused by edema in his latter years. During his last 20 years, he had taken and resorted to Ken-GongTang, the reason was not psychological disposion, but physical disease. Also, Yong-Jo's condition just before death could be assumed in Seungjeongwon Ilgi and Jonhyeongak Ilgi. According to continuous complaints such as edema of the lower limbs, faint(lethargy) and eating disorder caused by abnormal rising of GI (anorexia), we could presume that the cause of death was uremia. In addition, it has significance to correct feasible misconceaption about the cause of death grounded on The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty.
Attitude to Health ; *Cause of Death ; Edema/history/pathology ; *Famous Persons ; Fatigue/history ; History, 18th Century ; Humans ; Korea ; Uremia/history/pathology

Over the decades, there has been a great deal progress in the understanding of gallstones owing to the continuous efforts aimed at elucidating their pathogenesis. An optimal classification system is needed because the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features and treatment can be different according to the classes. Currently, two systems are widely used: one from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -International Workshop on Pigment Gallstone Disease held in 1981 and the other from Gallstone Research Committee from the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology in 1984. However, some stones cannot be classified into either of these categories. In addition, several terms have been not been clearly defined. In several aspects, both systems need to be reevaluated. This paper reviewed the classification systems and terms that are currently used for gallstones, and raises several points that need to be reconsidered. In the near future, large scaled prospective studies on gallstones need to be carried out on the basis of the external color, chemistry, cutting surface, etc. Only when these studies are completed can an ideal classification system for gallstones be expected.
Cholelithiasis/*classification/history/pathology ; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. ; History of Medicine, 20th Cent. ; Human ; Korea ; *Terminology

To formulate the theory and experiences of physicians of successive dynasties on moxibustion for treatment of fabei, the medical cases and theory of ancient physicians are analyzed. It is found that moxibustion treatment has unique efficiency on fabei, which can come back to life, advert a danger, be easy to implement with low cost and be well worth studying futher and promoting the application. The concrete manipulation of the moxibustion treatment are garlic separated moxibustion, direct moxibustion, mori moxibustion and so on.
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China ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Pathology ; Periodicals as Topic ; history