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Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic* ; Fibromyalgia

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Tenosynovitis*

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Arthritis, Rheumatoid* ; Humans

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Ankle* ; Sarcoidosis* ; Tenosynovitis*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of social support, self - esteem, hope, and health conservation of the vulnerable elderly people with diabetes. METHODS: Participants were 100 vulnerable elderly people with diabetes living in D or K cities. Data collection was done through interviews from February to March, 2016. Social support was measured with the MOS-SSS (Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey), self-esteem with Self-Esteem Scale, hope with the Nowotny Hope Scale, and health conservation with the Sung's Health Conservation Scale. IBM SPSS 20.0 was used to analyze descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, independent t-test, Pearson correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. RESULTS: Factors affecting the health conservation of the vulnerable elderly people were social support, hope, education level and subjective health status. These factors explained 64.9% of the health conservation. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to construct a comprehensive nursing classification system for elderly people with diabetes in vulnerable class and to develop integrated health conservation program and nursing care as a new social support resource.
Aged* ; Classification ; Data Collection ; Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Education ; Hope* ; Humans ; Nursing ; Nursing Care ; Self Concept ; Vulnerable Populations

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PURPOSE: To evaluate quantification results of single breath-hold (SBH) magnetic resonance (MR) cine imaging compared to results of conventional multiple breath-hold (MBH) technique for left ventricular (LV) function in patients with cardiac arrhythmia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: MR images of patients with arrhythmia who underwent MBH and SBH cine imaging at the same time on a 1.5T MR scanner were retrospectively reviewed. Both SBH and MBH cine imaging were performed with balanced steady state free precession. SBH scans were acquired using temporal parallel acquisition technique (TPAT). Fifty patients (65.4 ± 12.3 years, 72% men) were included. End-diastolic volume (EDV), end-systolic volume (ESV), stroke volume (SV), ejection fraction (EF), myocardial mass, and LV regional wall motion were evaluated. RESULTS: EF, myocardial mass, and regional wall motion were not significantly different between SBH and MBH acquisition techniques (all P-values > 0.05). EDV, ESV, and SV were significant difference between the two techniques. These parameters for SBH cine imaging with TPAT tended to lower than those in MBH. EF and myocardial mass of SBH cine imaging with TPAT showed good correlation with values of MBH cine imaging in Passing-Bablok regression charts and Bland-Altman plots. However, SBH imaging required significantly shorter acquisition time than MBH cine imaging (15 ± 7 sec vs. 293 ± 104 sec, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: SBH cine imaging with TPAT permits shorter acquisition time with assessment results of global and regional LV function comparable to those with MBH cine imaging in patients with arrhythmia.
Arrhythmias, Cardiac* ; Humans ; Retrospective Studies ; Stroke Volume ; Ventricular Function, Left*

Recently chronic angiopathy of diabetes mellitus has become serious complication of diabetes mellitus. Chronic angiopathic complication of diabetes mellitus is divided into macrovascular disease and microvascular disease. Macrovascular disease includes coronary arterial disease, cerebrovascular disease, foot lesion and microvascular disease includes diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. It is well known that microvascular disease'is relatively unique in diabetic patients and macrovascular disease is frequently found in non diabetic patients, although prevalence rate is still high in diabetic patients. This finding supports the view that microvascular disease and macrovascular disease have different pathogenesis. The authors evaluated and invested the 180 patients with diabetes mellitus who have taken neurologic examination and NCV studies f rom January 1, 1990 to September 30, 1992. The results were as followed: 1.There is a significant tendency that diabetic patients with neuropathy are accompanied by other microangiopathy (retinopathy or nephropathy) than diabetic patients without neuropathy. 2.Between diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy and without peripheral neuropathy, there is no difference in the prevalence of macroangiopathy.
Diabetes Complications* ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Diabetic Neuropathies* ; Diabetic Retinopathy ; Foot Diseases ; Humans ; Neurologic Examination ; Peripheral Nervous System Diseases ; Prevalence

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Thoracic Wall* ; Thorax*

The chest radiographs and angiograms were retrospectively evaluated in 47 patients with pulmonary atresia (PA) and ventricular septal defect (VSD) to determine the characteristic findings of major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (MAPCSs) on the chest radiographs. Of 47 patients, 23 had MAPCAs and 24 had only PDA for blood supply of whole right and left lung. Chest radiographs enabled identification of 16 of 23 patients with MAPCAs. The most common finding of MAPCAs was inappropriately large peripheral pulmonary vasculature (n=16, 69.6%). The other findings were tortuosity of pulmonary vasculature (n=12, 52.2%), focal unevendistribution of pulmonary vasculature (n=12, 52.2%), and two descending pulmonary arteries (n=4, 17.4%). When chest radiographs showed two or more findings of MAPCAs, MAPCAs could be differentiated from PDA with statistical significance (p<0.005). It is concluded that chest radiographs may help to identify MAPCAs before angiography if two-dimensional echo ardiography suggests PA with VSD.
Angiography ; Arteries* ; Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular* ; Humans ; Lung ; Pulmonary Artery ; Pulmonary Atresia* ; Radiography, Thoracic ; Retrospective Studies ; Thorax*