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Thyroid Gland* ; Thyroid Nodule*

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Head* ; Pancreas*

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Temporomandibular Joint Disorders*

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In order to investigate the factors influencing QOL and life satisfaction of the physically disabled, the author interviewed, by using structuralized questionnaire, 440 individuals among the physically disabled who were participated in Health Examination from April to July, 1997. The questionnaire consisted of the general characteristics(sex, age, marital status, family number, etc), the Reintegration to Normal Living Index(RNLI) to assess QOL, and the single item of five-likert scale to evaluate life satisfaction. The means of RNLI were 16.2+/-4.8 in total score, 12.2+/-3.4 in daily functioning and 4.0+/-2.1 in perception of self. The respondents were less reintegrated toward social activities and relationships than impairments or disabilities. While the satisfied group was 47.3%, the dissatisfied group was 52.7%. As the results of multiple regression and logistic regression analysis, the significant predictors of QOL were age, education, job, grade of disability and subjective health status. The life satisfaction were related to economic status, job and subjective health status. To improve QOL and life satisfaction of the physically disabled, it is important that we improve their basic socioeconomic status by getting a job through rehabilitation education and induce them to have positive self-assessment by extending the opportunity of social participation.
Daegu* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Disabled Persons* ; Education ; Humans ; Logistic Models ; Marital Status ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Rehabilitation ; Self-Assessment ; Social Class ; Social Participation

Platelet-derived growth factor(PDGF) is known to accelerate soft tissue fracture and periodontal bone healing, but little information is available for characterizing the healing of articualr cartilage. This study was designed to demonstrate the regeneration potential of pasteurized autogeneous osteochondral graft when PDFG was applied locally in vivo. Eighteen rabbits in two groups were used in the experiment. The free osteochondral fragment(1x1x1 cm) were taken from distal femur. The fragment were pasteurized in 65degrees C for 5 minutes. In experimental group(group II), the fragment were soaked in 0.25 mg/ml of recombinant human PDGF mixed 5 ml normal saline and reimplanted to the resected site, and followed with local administration of 0.25 mg/ml PDGF to knee joint. In control group(group I), the pasteurized fragment were reimplanted in the resected site without any treatments. The histologic characteristics of the transplanted autografts for three rabbits in each group were observed at 3, 5 and 7 weeks postoperatively. The results were as follows; Group II revealed the more favorable regeneration of articular cartilage, less arthritic changes and more mature arrangement of chondrocytes than group I. Even thought the cartilage is avascular and the regeneration capacity of pasteurized cartilage is severely limited, the regeneration of grafted articular cartilage is thought to be accellerated by increased newly formed blood vessels and soft tissues due to the diffusion of PDGF on grafted cartilage, and probably also by differentiation of mesenchymal cells in the initial stage of experiment. The results of this study suggest that local administration of PDGF could be used for the treatment of posttraumatic or degenerative arthritis and various cartilage damages.
Autografts ; Blood Vessels ; Cartilage ; Cartilage, Articular ; Chondrocytes ; Diffusion ; Femur ; Humans ; Knee Joint ; Osteoarthritis ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor* ; Rabbits* ; Regeneration* ; Transplants*

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Psychosurgery*

OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were to evaluate the relationship between therapeutic compliance and emotional variables in the patients on maintenance hemodialysis and to make a help in planning the treatment in order to promote the therapeutic outcomes. METHODS: Subjects consisted of 43 end-stage renal disease patients who had been treated with hemodialysis for more than one year. Hostility was measured with Cook-Medly Hostility Scale and depressive symptom, with beck Depression Inventory(BDI) and anxiety, with Self-rating Anxiety Scale of Zung(SAS). Serum potassium(K), and phosphorus(P) level, and interdialytic weight gain(IWG) were selected as compliance indices, for they were said to reflect the effect of diet, medication and salts restriction, respectively. RESULTS: (1) While the patients on hemodialysis got the scores within the normal range in their anxiety and hostility scale, they showed higher score of BDI than normal person, which was wtatistically significant. (2) Considering the relationship between therapeutic compliance and emotional variables, diet compliance was significantly associated with the emotional variables such as depression and anxiety. The relationship would be drawn with the equation listed below; Compliance Value=4.656 x (Depression) + 2.592 x (Anxiety)-0.13 x (Depression)x(Anxiety)-9.742 (3) When the patients were given a series of supportive psychotherapy for about 1 month, they showed the decrease in the scores of anxiety and depression scales, and the elevation in compliance value. However, there was no room for saving that the compliance ratio was improved, because of the limitation in the research methodology. CONCLUSION: Therapeutic compliance depended on between depression and anxiety among the emotional variables, the supportive psychotherapy was useful method to improved the therapeutic compliance.
Anxiety ; Compliance* ; Depression ; Diet ; Hostility ; Humans ; Kidney Failure, Chronic ; Psychotherapy ; Reference Values ; Renal Dialysis* ; Research Design ; Salts ; Weights and Measures

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Extremities* ; Sarcoma*