The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the efficacy of arthroscopic repair of Bankart lesion using the biodegradable polyglyconate implant(Suretac) for the treatment of traumatic anterior shoulder instability. Although the arthroscopic procedure using the Suretac device has some technical advantages over others, there have been reports of the higher failure rate than open procedure. Eight shoulders in 8 patients who had traumatic anterior instability of the shoulder with Bankart lesion were managed with this procedure. They were followed up for average 2 years (range 1 year 4 months to 2 years 5 months). During the follow-up period, all the patients showed full range of motion of the shoulder without recurrence of instability. It was our impression that success rate of the procedure could be improved by careful selection of the patient, the accurate arthroscopic technique, and the good rehabilitation program.
Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Range of Motion, Articular ; Recurrence ; Rehabilitation ; Retrospective Studies ; Shoulder*

Purpose: To determine the incidence and the time to failure of repaired short external rotator muscles through aposterolateral approach in total hip arthroplasties; and to describe the correlation between failure of the repaired short external rotator muscles and the hip dislocation rate. Materials and Methods: Between January 2003 and October 2003, 51 patients (55 cases) were treated with primary, uncemented total hip arthroplasties. The average patient`s age was 51 years (33 men, 19 women). After the short external rotator muscles were repaired, two 26-gauge wires were stitched as a marker to the abductor tendons and short external rotator tendons. The distance between the two opposing reference points was less than 1.2 cm. The distance between the markers was determined on radiographs that were obtained 1 day, 2 weeks, and 3 months post-operatively. A distance of more than 2.5 cm, or an invisible one, indicated failure. Results: Of a total of 52 repaired short external rotator muscles, 45 (86.5%) failed. Twenty-five(48.1%) failed within the first day, 15 (28.8%) within 2 weeks, and 5 (9.6%) within 3 months post-operatively. Regardless of the time of failure of the repaired short external rotator muscles, postoperative hip dislocations did not occur. Conclusion: The repair of short external rotator muscles after total hip arthroplasties has a high failure rate and contributes little to the prevention of hip dislocations.
Arthroplasty ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip* ; Hip ; Hip Dislocation ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Muscles* ; Tendons

The intertrochanteric fracture of the femur occurs frequently in the elderly who has osteoporosis. These fractures had been treated with many fixation devices. Recently dynamic hip screws been commomly used. But, some complications were reported by this fixation the patients who were osteoporotic and/or who had unstable type fracture. We have analysed the roentgenograms and the medical records to study impaction degree and change of neck-shaft angle according to fracture type and degree of osteoporosis in the 35 patiensts wit minimum 1 year follow-up who have intertrochanteric fracture of the femur treated with dynamic hip screws, from Jhn. 1989 to Jun. 1993, retrospectively. The results obtained were as follows; 1. The most common fracture type by Bord-Griffin classification was type I, 19 cases(57%), and the most common osteoporotic by Sight's index was grade II, 21 cases(60%). 2. There were no significant differences of impaction degree and neck-shaft angle according to the fracture types or osteoporosis degrees. 3. The mean impaction degree of fracture site was 9.3mm and the mean neck-shaft angle change was 0.8。 of varus angulation.
Aged ; Classification ; Femur ; Follow-Up Studies ; Hip Fractures ; Hip ; Humans ; Medical Records ; Osteoporosis ; Retrospective Studies

PURPOSE: In spite of the karyotype and phenotype diversity in Turner syndrome patients, there are few reports about such differences in Korea. We reviewed the data of chromosome abnormalities, clinical manifestations, and comorbidities of Turner syndrome patients in Kyungpook National University Hospital to compare them to the recent hypotheses about sex chromosome gene loci related to Turner symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We identified the cytologic findings of 92 patients with Turner syndrome and the clinical findings of 62 patients among them. RESULTS: 54.3 percent of patients had 45,X while 45.7 percent showed other karyotype combinations (45,X/46,XX, 45,X/46,XX/47,XXX, 46,X,del(Xp), 46,X,del(Xq), 45,X/46,X,del(Xq), 46,X,i(Xq), 45,X/46,X,i (Xq)). The Turner symptoms found included short neck, high arched palate, broad chest, Madelung deformity, short metacarpals, scoliosis, cubitus valgus, low hair line, webbed neck, edematous extremities, pigmented nevus, and sexual infantilism. The specific diseases associated Turner syndrome included renal abnormalities, congenital heart disease, hearing defects, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and decreased bone density. The phenotype of the mosaicism group was milder than that of the monosomy group. In the case of 46,X,del(Xp) and 45,X/46,X,del(Xq) groups, all had skeletal abnormalities, but the 46,X,del(Xq) group had none. In the case of 46,X,del(Xp) group, all showed short statures and skeletal abnormalities, but no sexual infantilism was observed. In the case of 46,X,i(Xq) and 45,X/46,X,i(Xq) groups, they all showed delayed puberty and had primary amenorrhea. CONCLUSION: It is important to study karyotype-phenotype correlations in patients with Turner syndrome to obtain interesting information about the genotype-phenotype correlations related to the X chromosome.
Bone Density ; Chromosome Aberrations ; Comorbidity ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Extremities ; Genetic Association Studies ; Growth Disorders ; Hair ; Hearing ; Heart Diseases ; Humans ; Hyperlipidemias ; Karyotype ; Korea ; Metacarpal Bones ; Monosomy ; Mosaicism ; Neck ; Nevus, Pigmented ; Osteochondrodysplasias ; Palate ; Phenotype ; Puberty, Delayed ; Scoliosis ; Sex Chromosomes ; Sexual Infantilism ; Thorax ; Turner Syndrome ; X Chromosome

OBJECTIVES: In order to devise the combination module transmitting bio signal and signal data remotely, as defect of wirewireless combination module was complemented by designing a single combination of wireless module and power supply module, a single system was implemented. METHODS: Currently in case of wireless transmission, it had various problems causing by some factors such as buildings, obstruction, and entanglement of wires and so on. In order to overcome problems of wireless transmission, a single combination module design was researched, which transmits vital signal and sign data using basic electric line installed in the inner building or between others. Even though it was also possible of wireless communication and the internet, in case of a power supply without them, it could be possible to transfer data to underground or top ground in the inner building without any special communication line. RESULTS: Bio signal data was transmitted through a power supply line, a noise problem occurred would be solved by the designed noise filter. The filter showed that noise was cut off about more than 90%. It was also confirmed that the used ECG signals was stably received on transmission experiment. An internal PCB antenna could make the system be wireless communication without the disclosure of an antenna. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, in order to implement a useful system transmitting bio signal and data through wire and wireless management for combination design of wireless module and electrical line module, bio signal transmission system was implemented by design of noise break filter circuit to reduce power noise and PCB internal antenna design.
Complement System Proteins ; Disclosure ; Electric Power Supplies ; Electrocardiography ; Internet ; Noise ; Vital Signs

BACKGROUND: The revised Consolidated Standards for Reporting of Trials (CONSORT) were developed to improve the reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials. We studied to survey the extent to which RCTs report items included in the revised CONSORT recommendations. METHODS: A descriptive survey of RCTs enrolled in 2005 at KoreaMed, which is a representative database in Korea was done. The main outcome measures were the proportion of RCTs that reported each of 22 checklist items of CONSORT. RESULTS: We identified 125 RCTs from 26 journals. Random sequence implementation (0%), estimated effect size and its precision (0%), sample size determination (8.9%), method of random sequence generation (7.3%), allocation concealment (3.2%), participant flow (4.8%) and any other analysis (7.3%), generalizability of the trial findings (0.8%) were pooly reported. CONCLUSION: The proportions of following the CONSORT recommendations in Korean medical journals were very low. An effort to improve the reporting of RCTs by application and recommendation of CONSORT statement is required.
Checklist ; Double-Blind Method ; Korea ; Outcome Assessment (Health Care) ; Random Allocation ; Sample Size

No abstract available.
Athletes* ; Forearm* ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy* ; Metabolism* ; Phosphorus*

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare aggressive neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin that shows locoregional or distant metastasis. Metastasis of MCC to body cavity effusion is extremely rare; only three cases have been reported so far. Metastatic MCC in effusion cytology shows small blue round cells with fine stippled chromatin like other small blue round cell tumors such as small cell lung carcinoma or lymphoma. The diagnosis of metastatic MCC can grant patients good chances at recently advanced therapeutic options. Here, we present a case of metastatic MCC to pleural effusion with characteristic single file-like pattern.
Carcinoma, Merkel Cell ; Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine ; Chromatin ; Diagnosis ; Financing, Organized ; Humans ; Lymphoma ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Pleural Effusion ; Skin ; Small Cell Lung Carcinoma

Poststroke depression is very common and has been reported in as many as 40~50% of poststroke patients. The fluoxetine is one of the most frequently prescribed drugs for the treatment of poststroke depression. This serotonin selective reuptake inhibitor, known as generally safe and well tolerated drug, has been recently reported to induce mania. We report a case of fluoxetine-induced mania. A 64 year-old male, who has taken 10 mg of fluoxetine daily due to poststroke depression, presented elevated mood, hyperactivity, regressed behavior, excessive planning, sleep deterioration, and talkativeness abruptly. We were suspicious of fluoxetine- induced manic state and discontinued immediately fluoxetine without prescription of mood stabilizer. His symptoms had been ceased over two weeks.
Bipolar Disorder ; Depression ; Fluoxetine ; Humans ; Male ; Prescriptions ; Serotonin

This study was designed to evaluate whether the nurses' assessment of postoperative pain can be an alternative to patients' self-reporting. We examined 187 patients receiving postoperative intravenous patient-controlled analgesia. The nurses assessed the patients' pain with three pain indices (therapeutic efficacy, pain intensity, and facial pain expression) 8 hr after operation. The patients recorded their resting and movement pain using 100-mm visual analog scales immediately following the nurses' assessment. There was an acceptable correlation between overall pain measurement assessed by patients and that assessed by nurses (canonical correlation coefficient=0.72, p=0.0001). The resting pain was more reliably reflected than the movement pain in overall measurement assessed both by nurses and by patients. Among the three pain indices assessed by nurses, the pain intensity most reliably reflected the patients' self-reports. The pain intensity assessed with a simple verbal descriptor scale therefore is believed to be an effective alternative to the patients' self-reports of postoperative pain at rest. However, it mirrored the patients' self-reports during movement less reliably. Therapeutic efficacy and facial pain expression indices were not effective alternatives to patients' self-reporting.
Analgesia, Patient-Controlled ; Facial Expression ; Human ; Nursing Assessment/*methods/standards ; Pain Measurement ; Pain, Postoperative/*nursing ; Perioperative Nursing/*methods ; Reproducibility of Results