1.Hypotensive Efficacy and Safety of Ramipril on the Patients with Essential Hypertension.
Won Sang YOO ; Sung Woon KWON ; Chang Young LIM ; Sang Hyun PARK ; Suck Koo CHOI ; Dong Chul LEE
Korean Circulation Journal 1991;21(4):774-780
Thirty three patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension were administered ramipril, a new ACe inhibitor, 2.5-5mg once daily for 6 weeks to evaluate the hypotensive efficacy and safety. The results were as follows : 1) The patients consisted of 18 males, 15 females, aged 54 on average and classified as mild in 19 and moderate in 14 patients. 2) At the end of 6 weeks trial, blood pressure dropped 13/6mmHg on average, rewarding 70% effectiveness and normalized below 150/90mmHg in 39%. 3) The most frequent side reaction was dry cough in 5 patients(15%) followed by asthenia, GI trouble, dizziness, edema, eye injection and one case of GPT elevation which normalized after completion of trial. 4) The rating of safety of safety was 79% and of overall usefulness was 73%. In conclusion, ramipril 5mg once daily regimen is well tolerated and effective in the treatment of mild to moderated essential hypertension.
Asthenia
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Blood Pressure
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Cough
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Dizziness
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Edema
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Female
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Humans
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Hypertension*
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Male
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Ramipril*
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Reward
2.Effects Estrogen on the Expression of NOS and Histologic Composition in Rabbit Clitoris.
Ha Na YOON ; Woo Sik CHUNG ; Young Yo PARK ; Bong Suk SHIM ; Woon Sup HAN ; Sung Won KWON
Korean Journal of Urology 2001;42(2):147-153
PURPOSE: Many investigators suggested that changes in hormonal environment in the postmenopausal women functionally or histologically effect the clitoris and vagina. We investigated the mechanism of female se xual dysfunction occurring in the decreased hormonal status, and aimed to establish and experimental base for the hormone replacement in postmenopausal women to correct sexual dysfunction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty mature female New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into three groups; control group, oophorectomy group, estrogen replacement group after oophorectomy. Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity and the degree of expression of neuronal NOS (nNOS) and endothelial NOS (eNOS), collagen content in clitoral tissues were analysed. RESULTS: nNOS and eNOS were significantly increased in the oohporectomized group while decreased in the estrogen replacement group (p<0.01). NOS activity showed the similar pattern of change (p<0.05). Oophorectomy induced a significant increase in collagen content, while the ratio of smooth muscle content was increased significantly after the estrogen replacement (p<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Estrogen deficiency induces collagen synthesis and decreases the content of smooth muscle in clitoris, resulting in a structural relaxation difficulty. We believe that NOS becomes more active to improve the relaxation difficulty and that hormone replacement helps to restore the normal state of smooth muscle relaxation. Considering these findings, we suggest that estrogen down-regulates NOS and its activity.
Clitoris*
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Collagen
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Estrogen Replacement Therapy
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Estrogens*
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Female
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Humans
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Muscle, Smooth
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Neurons
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Nitric Oxide Synthase
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Ovariectomy
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Rabbits
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Relaxation
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Research Personnel
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Vagina
3.A Clinical Analysis of 132 Cases of Primary Gallbladder Carcinoma.
Chul Woon CHUNG ; Jin Sub CHOI ; Sung Won KWON ; Byong Ro KIM
Korean Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery 1999;3(1):37-42
BACKGROUND: In spite of the development of diagnostic tools, gallbladder carcinoma is often diagnosed at a late stage because of the lack of symptomatic awareness of patients in early stage. Early diagnosis and proper resectional treatment is, therefore, the most important factor for the prognosis. This study aims at the analysis of clinical characteristics and the effect of various modes of surgical treatment on long-term survival. METHODS: From January 1989 to December 1997 we operated on 132 patients with gallbladder carcinoma. Age, sex, stage distribution, clinical manifestations and mode of operations were analyzed. The cumulative survival rates were also analyzed for 107 patients who had been finally followed up, and the significance of survival difference was tested (p<0.05). RESULTS: The average age of 132 patients was 64 years old, and female patients suffered more frequent incidence than male patients by a ratio of 1.7:1. The distribution of patients according to the pathologic TNM staging showed early stage (stage 0 & I) accounted for only 9.8% whereas the advanced stages (stage II, III, IVa, IVb) accounted for the majority of the patients (90.2%). The chief complaints were abdominal pain (84.8%), indigestion, weight loss, palpable mass and so forth in a decreasing frequency order. Among the patients, 30 cases (22.7%) were irresectable, 50 cases (38%) were curative resected, and 52 cases (39%) were palliative resected. The overall cumulative survival rates of 107 patients were 53.7%, 41.7% and 30.1% for 1-year, 2-year and 5-year survival respectively. Although the 5-year survival rate of curative resected patients showed a significantly better survival rate (p<0.005) than that of non-curative resected patients, the different modes of combined radical surgery did not affect the survival rates. CONCLUSION: Combined curative resection ameliorated long-term survival of patients with gallbladder carcinoma. For the further evaluation of the efficacy of combined radical surgery on survival, more extensive data needs to be accumulated.
Abdominal Pain
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Dyspepsia
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Early Diagnosis
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Female
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Gallbladder*
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Hospital Distribution Systems
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Humans
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Incidence
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Neoplasm Staging
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Prognosis
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Survival Rate
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Weight Loss
4.Pulmonary Embolism in Lupus Anticoagulant Positive Postmenopausal Woman after Estrogen Replacement Therapy.
Bon Kwon KU ; Jong Won HA ; June KWAN ; Dong Woon JUN ; Namsik CHUNG ; Sung Soon KIM ; Do Yun LEE
Korean Circulation Journal 1995;25(1):124-131
Pulmonary embolism is the impaction of material into branches of the pulmonary arterial bed. It usually occurs in patients with primary hypercoagulable states or secondary hypercoagulable states like cancer, preganancy, and estrogen replacement therapy. We report a case of a pulmonary embolism in a patient with positive lupus anticoagulant who received estrogen replacement therapy. The patient was referred due to suddenly developed shortness of breath and echogenic mass densities in the right atrium on 2 dimensional echocardiography. The patient was markedly improved with intravenous urokinase and subsequent oral anticoagulant therapy. Related articles are also reviewed.
Dyspnea
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Echocardiography
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Estrogen Replacement Therapy*
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Estrogens*
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Female
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Heart Atria
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Humans
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Lupus Coagulation Inhibitor*
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Pulmonary Embolism*
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Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator
5.Transaxillary Approach for First Rib Resection to Relieve Thoracic Outlet Syndrome.
Ki Young KWON ; Byung Chan JEON ; Yong Woon CHO ; Sung Rae CHO
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 2001;30(12):1443-1448
The authors report a case of thoracic outlet syndrome in left side. Thoracic outlet syndrome is a collective term in which symptoms and signs are due to bony and soft tissue compression of the neurovascular bundle at the thoracic outlet. It is a rare case in neurosurgical field. So we had experienced one case of thoracic outlet syndrome which was improved by transaxillary approach for resection of first rib. The clinical features, diagnostic test, radiological findings, and operative technique are presented with review of literatures.
Brachial Plexus
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Diagnostic Tests, Routine
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Ribs*
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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome*
6.A case of tracheo-bronchial amyloidosis.
Sung Woon KWON ; Yong Kyun KIM ; Kwang Ho JUNG ; Dong Soon KIM ; Woo Ki JEON ; Yeon Lim SUH
Korean Journal of Medicine 1993;45(5):690-695
No abstract available.
Amyloidosis*
7.Clinical Usefulness of Emergency Blood Donor Test.
Seog Woon KWON ; Kyou Sup HAN ; Tae Hyun UM ; Yoo Sung HWANG ; Bok Yeun HAN ; Jin Q KIM
Korean Journal of Blood Transfusion 1996;7(1):33-38
There are some emergency situations when untested fresh blood should be transfused. Emergency blood donor tests(EBDT) have been done as an effort to protect these blood recipients from contracting transfusion associated infections in Seoul National University, Hospital. EBDT includes HBsAg, anti-HlV, STS, and ALT test. Anti-HCV test is not included because of the absence of appropriate test kit. A total of 534 tests have been done from June 1993 to August 1995. Among these, 495 tests(92.7%) have been done for blood donor screening, and 39 tests(7.3%) for emergency organ transplantation. Sensitivity and specificiy of the emergency HBsAg test were 69% and 98%, respectively. There were two RPR reactive blood donors, but no anti-HIV positive cases. Among 458 blood donors, 37 donors(8.1%) showed increased ALT level(> 45IU/L). The percent of agreement in HBsAg, elevated ALT and anti-HIV tests between emergent and routine blood donor tests, were 97.0%, 98.9% and 100%, respectively. Although false positive and false negative EBDT result may is useful, although limited, we think that EBDT is useful in protecting blood recipient from transfusion associated infections.
Blood Donors*
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Emergencies*
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Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
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Humans
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Mass Screening
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Organ Transplantation
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Seoul
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Transplants
8.Echinococcal Cyst: A Case Report.
Hee Chan LEE ; Byoung Jo KWON ; Young Yo PARK ; Sung Won KWON ; Woon Sup HAN
Korean Journal of Urology 1988;29(3):511-514
Echinococcal cyst is a rare disease in Korea. A 33 year old man who had lower abdominal discomfort for 4 months, and multiple cysts in intraperitoneal and retroperitoneal cavity on abdominal CT. scan. On abdominal exploration, the multiple were diagnosed for Echinococcal cyst. Thin case is the first documented case of multiple Echinococcal cysts among Koreans reported in the literature.
Adult
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Humans
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Korea
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Rare Diseases
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
9.Two Cases of Triple Gastric Cancer.
Tae Byung PARK ; Kye Suk KWON ; Won Jae CHUNG ; Yong Woon SHIN ; Byung Yup AHN ; Chan Sub PARK ; Sung Tae OH ; Kyung Rae KIM ; Young Chae CHOO
Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 1992;12(1):57-60
Multiple gastric caner, now considered to be a sort of multiple primary cancer by Moertel's classification, is a special type of cancer in which two or more tumor lesions arise independently from the stomach. Although its incidence is rare and it has never been reported in Korea yet, the report of multiple gastric cancer is increasing with lengthened life survival and improved diagnostic method. We recently experienced two cases of triple gastric cancer, the one in 53-years-old male who had well differentiated adenocarcinoma(EGC IIb+c) on antrum, poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma on cardia and moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma on mid-body, and the other in 65-years-old female who had two poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma on cardia and anterior wall of low body and moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma (EGCIIc) on posterior wall of low body. Triple gastric cancer is rare, so we reported 2 cases of triple gastric cancer.
Adenocarcinoma
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Cardia
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Classification
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Female
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Humans
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Incidence
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Korea
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Male
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Stomach
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Stomach Neoplasms*
10.Effects of Local Anesthetics on Isolated Rings of Thoracic Aorta in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.
Tae Ho CHANG ; Sung Hee KANG ; Se Hwan KIM ; Jin Woong PARK ; Woon Yi BAEK ; Jung Gil HONG ; Byung Kwon KIM
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 1992;25(2):281-291
The vascular actions of local anesthetics are important in determining the uptake and distribution of these agents from their site of injection as well as influencing their hemodynamic effects once absorbed. Because of the importance of the endothelium in determining of modulating the vascular response of a wide variety of agents, cumulative dose-dependent vasular effects of lidocaine, mepivacaine and bupivacaine on isolated rings of thoracic aorta in normotensive rats(NTR) and spontaneously hypertensive rats(SHR) were studied in the presence and absence of intact endothelium. The results were as follows ; The body weight of NTR and SHR averaged 274.71+/-55.80(N = 38) and 241.43+/-17.73gm(N = 18) and mean arterial pressure was 74.4l+/-3.60 and 129.34+/-2.89mmHg respectively. The mean absolute value of the contraction induced by 5Xl0(-6) M phenylephrine was 3.27+/-0.98(N = 18) and 2.3l+/-50.64gm(N = 18) with intact endothelium and 3.12+/-0.92 and 2.46+/-0.87 gm without intact endothelium in aortic rings of NTR and SHR respectively. In the response to local anesthetics in preparation with resting tension(1.0 gm), lidocaine and mepivacaine in concentration of 10(-3) to 1.25X10(-2) M not produced dose dependent contraction in aortic ring with intact endothelium from NTR. but bupivacaine produced dose-dependent contraction in aortic rings with intact endothelium from NTR. In the aortic rings from NTR and SHR previously contracted with phenylephrine, lidocaine in contraction of 10(-3) to 1.25X10(-2) M caused dose related relaxation in aortic rings with or without endothelium but in concentration of 10(-3) to 510(-3) M, aortic rings with endothelium were more relaxed than those af without endothelium in NTR. In SHR, aortic rings without endothelium in concentration of 5X10(-3) to 1.25X10 M were more significantly relaxed than those of with endothelium. In aortic rings from NTR previously contracted with phenylephrine, mepivacaine caused dose-related relaxation, which was more profound in SHR. In aortic rings with endothelium from NTR previously contracted with phenylephrine, bupivacaine in concentration of 10(-3) to 1.5X10(-3) M caused a relaxation and in concentration of 2.5X10(-3) to 7.5X10(-3) M and 1.25X10(-3) M caused a relaxation again. But in the aortic rings without intact endothelium, bupivacaine caused dose-related relaxation. In the aortic rings without intact endothelium, bupivacaine caused dose-related relaxation in NTR. In the aortic rings from SHR previously contracted with phenylephrine, bupivacaine caused dose-related relaxation, which was more profound than those of NTR. The local anesthetics appear to exert their relaxant effect on endothelium independently and more profoundly in SHR.
Anesthetics, Local*
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Aorta, Thoracic*
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Arterial Pressure
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Body Weight
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Bupivacaine
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Endothelium
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Hemodynamics
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Lidocaine
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Mepivacaine
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Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
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Phenylephrine
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Rats, Inbred SHR*
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Relaxation