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Humans ; Pregnancy, Twin*

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Arteries* ; Heart*

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Fontan Procedure* ; Heart Ventricles*

OBJECTIVES: Significant progress has been made in understanding psychosocial, psychological, and environmental factors associated with suicide. However it is only recently that attention has been paid to the understanding of the neurobiology of suicide. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between platelet serotonin level and suicidal behavior and psychological features of the suicidal attempters. METHODS: After a suicidal attempt platelet serotonin level was measured from 21 patients and compared it with those from depression patients and normal controls. Also MMPI, HAM-D, Barratt impulsiveness scale(BIS) were done to evaluate their psychological features. RESULTS: 1) There was no significant difference in sex ratio of the suicidal attempters. 2) There was no significant difference in platelet serotonin levels among three groups. 3) The analysis of MMPI revealed that the scores of D, Hs, Pt in clinical scales were significantly higher in suicide patients and scores of D, Pa, Si were in depression patients. 4)The HAM-D score was significantly higher in depression and suicide patients, especially in depression patients. 5) The analysis of Barratt impulsiveness scale revealed that the scores of nonplanning, motor and cognitive impulsiveness scale were significantly higher in suicide patients. CONCLUSIONS: There was no significant difference in platelet serotonin levels among three groups. However the analysis of psychological features revealed significant differences. Therefore we concluded that psychological examinations are benefit to evaluate the suicidal tendency.
Blood Platelets* ; Depression ; Humans ; MMPI ; Neurobiology ; Serotonin* ; Sex Ratio ; Suicide ; Weights and Measures

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Erythrocytes* ; Extracorporeal Circulation*

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Heart* ; Thoracic Surgery*

PURPOSE: Kidney transplantation is definite treatment in chronic renal failure (CRF). But CRF patients have contracted bladder due to disuse atrophy and fibrosis of bladder mucosa and muscle. Contracted bladder results in CRF itself and failure of transplantation. And this causes many difficulties in ureteroneocystostomy. So many authors suggest that preoperative bladder augmentations of contracted bladder (cystoplasty) using intestine increase success rate in kidney transplantation. But these methods have been usually studied in pediatric transplantation. Preoperative hydrostatic bladder dilatation is nonoperative treatment usually used in interstitial cystitis and hemorrhagic bladder tumor. METHODS: Since January 1996, we newly attempted pretransplant bladder augmentation using hydrostatic pressure in 22 CRF patients who had contracted bladder diagnosed through preoperative voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG). RESULTS: Pre-augmented average bladder volume was 87.7 mL (60~100 mL) and post-augmented bladder volume was 210.5 mL (100~250 mL). There was no complication associated with pretransplant bladder augmentation itself, and there was no transplanted kidney loss. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that pretransplant bladder augmentation using hydrostatic pressure be useful in kidney transplantation of CRF patient who had contracted bladder.
Cystitis, Interstitial ; Dilatation ; Fibrosis ; Humans ; Hydrostatic Pressure* ; Intestines ; Kidney ; Kidney Failure, Chronic* ; Kidney Transplantation ; Mucous Membrane ; Muscular Disorders, Atrophic ; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms ; Urinary Bladder*

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Tetralogy of Fallot*