No abstract available.
Atrophy* ; Temporal Lobe*

No abstract available in English.
Arthritis, Infectious ; Dislocations ; Hip

No abstract available.
Hyperplasia

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of immunosuppressants on in-hospital mortality from sepsis. METHODS: Using data of the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service, we collected data from patients who were admitted to the hospital due to sepsis from 2009 to 2013. Based on drugs commonly used for immunosuppression caused by various diseases, patients were divided into three groups; immunosuppressant group, steroid-only group, and control group. Patients with no history of immunosuppressants or steroids were assigned to the control group. To identify risk factors of in-hospital mortality in sepsis, we compared differences in patient characteristics, comorbidities, intensive care unit (ICU) care requirements, and immunodeficiency profiles. Subgroup analysis according to age was also performed. RESULTS: Of the 185,671 included patients, 13,935 (7.5%) were in the steroid-only group and 2,771 patients (1.5%) were in the immunosuppressant group. The overall in-hospital mortality was 38.9% and showed an increasing trend with age. The steroid-only group showed the lowest in-hospital mortality among the three groups except the patients younger than 30 years. The steroid-only group and immunosuppressant group received ICU treatment more frequently (p < 0.001), stayed longer in the hospital (p < 0.001), and showed higher medical expenditure (p < 0.001) compared to the normal group. Univariate and multivariate analyses revealed that age, male gender, comorbidities (especially malignancy), and ICU treatment had a significant effect on in-hospital mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Despite longer hospital length of stay and more frequent need for ICU care, the in-hospital mortality was lower in patients taking immunosuppressive drugs than in patients not taking immunosuppressive drugs.
Comorbidity ; Health Expenditures ; Hospital Mortality ; Humans ; Immunosuppression ; Immunosuppressive Agents ; Insurance* ; Insurance, Health ; Intensive Care Units ; Korea* ; Length of Stay ; Male ; Mortality ; Multivariate Analysis ; Risk Factors ; Sepsis* ; Steroids

PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to understand the expression of BAG-1 in the human breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied its expression in one hundred and thirteen patients diagnosed with breast cancer in Dong-A university hospital between 1992 and 1996 by performing immunohistochemical staining with BAG-1 monoclonal antibody. RESULTS: Of the 113 breast carcinoma examined, 62.0% were positive for BAG-1 cyto- plasmic expression, 28.0% were positive for nuclear BAG-1 expression and 9.7% were positive for both BAG-1 cytoplasmic and nuclear expression. The higher histologic grade was correlated with the higher cytoplasmic expression (p<0.05). Except for histologic grade, no correlation was observed between BAG-1 expression and conventional prognostic factors such as age, menopausal status, metastatic status of the axillary lymh nodes, cathepsin-D, p53, C-erbB-2, DNA ploidy, S-phase fraction, PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear antigen). CONCLUSION: The high histologic grade was found to correlate with positive BAG-1 cyto- plasmic staining which did not correlate with conventional prognostic factors. Our data indicate that furthermore investigation is warranted to define the role of BAG-1 as an meaningful prognostic factor in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer.
Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Cytoplasm ; DNA ; Humans ; Ploidies ; Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen

The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of nutrition education program and pamphlet for the lower grades elementary students focused on individual daily needed food exchange units using Food Exchange System. Program consisted of four lessons (40 min/lesson), "5 major nutrients & function", "6 food group and sources", "daily needed food exchange units for normal body weight", and "smart snack choice and exercise". Pamphlet as activity book was developed for the program. The subjects were 3rd grade elementary students (educated group, 31 vs. non-educated group, 31). Educated group were lessoned as group and/or individual. We examined the differences in nutrition knowledge, dietary attitudes, dietary intakes and satisfaction of the program and pamphlet. In educated group, there were positive improvements on nutrition knowledge score "function and foods of 5 nutrients" and on dietary attitudes "type of breakfast and snacks". In the evaluation of dietary intakes according to KDRI, there were positive improvements on intakes level of riboflavin, vit. C, folate, Ca, P, Fe and Zn in educated group. In satisfaction with the program and pamphlet, contents, font size, visual, figure, difficulty and program curriculum were over 2.90/3.0. It showed that the developed nutrition education program and pamphlet focused on individual daily needed food exchange units using Food Exchange System improved nutrition knowledge, dietary attitudes and nutrients intake level in the lower grades elementary students.
Breakfast ; Curriculum ; Folic Acid ; Humans ; Pamphlets ; Riboflavin ; Snacks

No abstract available.
Granuloma* ; Leprosy, Lepromatous*

We experienced a case of acquired bronchial stenosis in a male premature infant who had recurrent postextubation atelectasis of the right lung. Bronchography showed the stenosis of the distal portion of right main bronchus and the proximal portion of intermediate bronchus and autopsy findings showed ill-defined irregularly elevated nodule with fibrotic scarring in the trifurcation of right main bronchus. Endotracheal suction was suspected as the main cause. A brief review of literature was made.
Autopsy ; Bronchi ; Bronchography ; Cicatrix ; Constriction, Pathologic* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature ; Lung ; Male ; Pulmonary Atelectasis ; Suction*

Neurilemmoma is a neoplasm arising from Schwann cells. It is usually solitary and may be benign or malignant, solid or cystic, encapsulated or diffuse. It rarely occurs in the retroperitoneum. We report one case of retroperitoneal neurilemmoma with review of the literatures.
Neurilemmoma* ; Schwann Cells

Williams syndrome is a congenital disorder characterized by mental retardation, loquacious personalities, dysmorphic face, and vascular and valvular abnormalities. The etiology of this syndrome was one allelic loss of elastin gene, exhibiting a submicroscopic deletion, at 7q11.23. Sudden death is an infrequently recognized complication. The mechanism of sudden death is explained by myocardial ischemia, decreased cardiac output, and arrhythmia by anatomical abnormality of coronary artery stenosis and severe biventricular outflow tract obstruction. We report an autopsy case of a 80 day-old male with Williams syndrome. Five days before admission, cardiac murmur was detected incidentally on ascultation at a local clinic during a visit for vaccination. He was transferred to our hospital and cardiac catheterization was done. He died suddenly next day. Postmortem examination revealed a dysmorphic face and multiple cardiovascular abnormalities including supravalvular aortic stenosis with narrowed coronary artery ostia, supravalvular pulmonic stenosis, secundum type of atrial septal defect, right ventricular hypertrophy, and renal artery stenosis. Histologically, aorta and pulmonary, bronchial, and renal arteries showed markedly hyperplastic medial elastic laminae approximately three times thick compared to those of age-matched normal artery. The elastic fibers of the innermost two thirds of media were disposed in a normal orderly parallel fashion. In outer third of the media, the elastic fibers had lost the normal orderly arrangement.
Aorta ; Aortic Stenosis, Supravalvular ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; Arteries ; Autopsy* ; Cardiac Catheterization ; Cardiac Catheters ; Cardiac Output ; Cardiovascular Abnormalities ; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities ; Coronary Stenosis ; Coronary Vessels ; Death, Sudden ; Elastic Tissue ; Elastin ; Heart Murmurs ; Heart Septal Defects, Atrial ; Humans ; Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular ; Infant* ; Intellectual Disability ; Loss of Heterozygosity ; Male ; Myocardial Ischemia ; Pulmonary Valve Stenosis ; Renal Artery ; Renal Artery Obstruction ; Vaccination ; Williams Syndrome*