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Anisometropia*

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Tibia

Purpose: To report a case of multiple retinal capillary hemangioma associated with neurofibromatosis type 1 and resulting neovascularglaucoma.Case summary: A 13-year-old boy was admitted with complaint of visual disturbance and dull pain in his left eye which had beguntwo weeks prior. Lisch nodules were observed in his left iris and corneal opacity with neovascularization of the iris and anglewere detected in the same eye. Multiple retinal capillary hemangiomas with increased tortuosity and congestion of feeding retinalvessels were observed on the upper equator of the left retina; in addition, vitreous hemorrhage was observed. There were noother abnormalities except iris mammillations in the right eye. Numerous café au lait macules were observed on the patient’s entirebody. He also exhibited axillary freckling. On brain magnetic resonance imaging, T2-weighted signal intensity was increasedin the basal ganglia, left thalamus, and cerebellar white matter; however, no vessel abnormalities were observed on magneticresonance angiography. High intraocular pressure (IOP) persisted despite the use of IOP lowering agents and IOP was normalizedafter trabeculectomy with mitomycin C administration. Conclusions This case shows that multiple retinal capillary hemangiomas can be accompanied by neurofibromatosis type 1,which may result in neovascular glaucoma.

Pulmonary metastasis occurs frequently in patients with gestational choriocarcinoma and most of these patients achieve remission with chemotherapy alone. Thus, the indications for surgical intervention are limited, but in appropriately selected patients, resection of a chemotherapy-resistant lung lesion can be curative. We have experienced that pulmonary metastatic choriocarcinoma in a drug-resistant patient was cured by pulmonary resection. So we report this case with a brief review of literatures.
Choriocarcinoma* ; Drug Therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Lung ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Pregnancy

Multiple involvement of arterial fibromuscular dysplasia is unusal and such a case is quite limited in the literature. We present a case of multiple arterial fibromuscular dysplasia with aneurysm formation in a 38-year-old non-hypertensive man. Angiographic study showed multiple aneurysmal dilatations of the right renal, superior mesenteric, celiac axis, and left colic arteries. The resected right kidney demonstrated an aneurysm of the main renal artery and extensive infarction in the midportion of the renal parenchyma. The segmentally resected superior mesenteric artery disclosed a similar nature of aneurysm occluded by recent thrombi. Microscopically, all the resected arterial walls showed both intimal and medial fibroplasia together with periadventitial fibrosis resulting in marked narrowing of the lumen and subsequent thrombus formation.

A 5-year-old Labrador Retriever presented with a subcutaneous mass on the right scapular region with localized calor. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a heterogeneously hypointense mass was seen on T1-weighted images (WI) and hyperintense on T2WI and fat-suppressed T2WI with marginal contrast enhancement on postcontrast T1WI and invasion into the surrounding tissue. Histopathological examination of the mass confirmed subcutaneous mast cell tumor (MCT) infiltrating to the adjacent subcutaneous fat. This is the first report to describe the MRI findings of subcutaneous MCT in veterinary medicine. This study suggests that MRI may help evaluate the extent of invasion of subcutaneous MCT.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of a safety management program on safety accident-related knowledge, attitude and behavior of elementary school students in Korea. METHODS: This study adopted nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The number of subjects was 34 in the experimental group and 31 in the control group. The safety management program was performed for approximately 50 minutes each session, once a week for 8 weeks. Data were collected from March 14th to June 23th, 2006, and analyzed by chi2 test and independent t-test with SPSS WIN 16.0. RESULTS: There were statistically significant differences in safety-related knowledge (t=3.010, p=.006) and behavior (t=18.833, p=.001) between the experimental group and the control group. The score of attitude was different between the experimental group and the control group but the difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: The safety management program used in this study was appropriate for elemental school students and affected safety-related knowledge and behavior of elementary school students. Therefore safety education should be provided systematically for elementary schools over the whole country.
Accident Prevention ; Education ; Humans ; Korea* ; Safety Management*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to identity the effects of a tailored health promotion program on rural residents' self efficacy, health problems and quality of life. METHOD: Data were collected from May 13th, 2006 to July 29th, 2006. The subjects were selected at Gajo-myeon, Geochang-gun, Gyeonsangbuk-do, Korea. Forty three residents were included in the experimental group and 39 in the control group. The 12-week health promotion program was given to the experimental group. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi2-test, t-test and ANCOVA test with the SPSS/Win 12.0 program. RESULT: The experimental group showed higher scores of self efficacy and quality of life than the control group, and a lower score of health problem than the control group. CONCLUSION: From the above results, it can be concluded that the tailored health promotion program for rural residents is an effective intervention for improving their self efficacy and quality of life and reducing their health problems. Therefore, it is necessary to spread the tailored health promotion program for residents in other rural areas in Korea.
Gyeongsangbuk-do ; Health Promotion* ; Korea ; Quality of Life* ; Self Efficacy*

Recently, nalbuphine has been used for reversal of opioid indueed respiratory depression. Because of its structural chsracter, nalbuphine has been known as a better nareotic antagonist with keeping analgesic potency and without considerable cardiovascular responses. Some investigators reported nalbuphine can decrease minimum alveolar concentration(MAC) of major inhalation anesthetic agents and can be a intravenous anesthetic adjuvant but can accompany several adverse reactions such as hypertension and tachycardia etc. To evaluate the eligibility and efficacy of nalbuphine as a intravenous narcotic adjuvant for cardiac anesthesia, we selected 24 adult cardiac patients and divided them into 3 groups. Valvular surgerys were performed for group I patients, aorto-coronary-bypass surgerys(CABG) for group II and correction of congenital heart disease for group III, respectively, All patients were inducted general anesthesia with 0.3 mg/kg nalbuphine+0.1 mg/kg diazepam+2 mg/kg thio- pental sodium and maintained with intermittent injection of 0.3-0.5 mg/kg nalbuphine and O.l mg/kg diazepam just before the time of most stressful surgical stimuli with 1/2 MAC halothane inhalation under vecuronization for muscle relaxation. We measured heart rate(HR), systolic blood pressure(BP), central venous pressure(CVP) at pre-induction as a control data, and just after endotracheal intubation, skin incision, sternotomy, and skin closure respectively to compare basic cardiovascular responses of patients at surgical stimuli with control data. We also checked recovery time of consciousness and presence of awareness during operation. The results were as follows: 1) Significant HR changes occurred in group I at just after intubation time from 104+/-18.6 to 134+/-25.9 and in group II from 83+/-10.5 to 115+/-32.3 respectively. 2) There were few significant changes of systolic blood pressure during anesthesia of all groups except just after intubation in group II from 135+/-32.8 torr to 168+/-37.9 torr.3) A significant CVP decrease occurred only in group I at the time of skin closure from 13+/-3. 5 cmHO to 10+/-3.8 cmH2O because of operative correction of tricuspid regurgitation of group I patients rather than anesthesia effects. 4) Recovery of consciousness needed average 1 hr 30 mins in group I and 2 hr 45 mins in group II. None of patients complained awareness during operations. Above results demonstrate that Nalbuphine-Diazepam-O2-1/2 MAC Halothane can be a anesthetic method for open heart surgery without any significant cardiovascular responses at surgical and anesthetic stimuli except intubation stimulus, but for more evaluation study of Nalbuphine-Diazepam-O2 Anesthesia will be needed.
Adult* ; Anesthesia ; Anesthesia, General* ; Anesthetics ; Blood Pressure ; Consciousness ; Diazepam* ; Halothane* ; Heart Defects, Congenital ; Heart* ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Inhalation ; Intubation ; Intubation, Intratracheal ; Muscle Relaxation ; Nalbuphine* ; Research Personnel ; Respiratory Insufficiency ; Skin ; Sodium ; Sternotomy ; Tachycardia ; Thoracic Surgery* ; Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency

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Animals ; Cloning, Molecular* ; Interleukin-2* ; Mice*