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DNA* ; Interleukin-12* ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis* ; Mycobacterium*

In 1974, bipolar hip prosthesis was developed by Giliberty and Bateman to reduce the problems of unipolar prosthesis, including acetabular wear and acetabular protrusion, but the indications for it are still controversial. From July, 1988, to February, 1991, at Pusan maryknoll hospital, 37 hips in 33 patients of femoral neck fracture (25 hips) and avascular necrosis (12 hips) with relatively normal acetabular articular cartilage were treated with bipolar hip prosthetic replacement. The thirty-seven cases were reviewed for more than 3 years(range, 3 years to 4 years 8 months: average, 3 years 10 months), and assessed in terms of acetabular migration and function. The authors compared the datas of the femoral neck fracture with those of the avascular necrosis of femoral head. There was no statistical difference between two groups in function. But the acetabular migration of bipolar hip prosthesis used in femoral neck fracture was lesser than that of avascular necrosis of femoral head, and the serial acetabular migration disclosed gradual decrease. The authors concluded that the results of bipolar endoprosthesis used in femoral neck fracture was superior than those of avascular necrosis of femoral head with relatively normal acetabular articular cartilage.
Acetabulum ; Busan ; Cartilage, Articular ; Femoral Neck Fractures ; Femur Neck ; Head ; Hip ; Hip Prosthesis ; Humans ; Necrosis ; Prostheses and Implants

Expandable metallic stents(EMS) were implanted in 7 patients with malignant (4 cholangio- carcinnoma, 1 pancreatic cancer, 1 ampullary carcinoma and 1 lymph node metastasis) biliary stricutres and 17 patients with benign(13 intrahepatic strictures of primary intrahepatic stone patients, 2 postoperative stricutres, 1 ampullary stenosis followed by endoscopic sphineterotomy and 1 bilioenteric anastomosis) biliary stricutures. In the fifteen patients out of 17 patients with benign biliary stricture, relief of cholangitis, improvement of liver function or loss of pruritus was observed. But in the 2 patients with.biliary cirrhosis, no clinical improvement was noted. In the malignant strictures with cholangio-carcinoma, the occlusion of EMS occurred in 3 patients and the duration of stent patency was average 2 months in those patients.
Cholangitis ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Fibrosis ; Humans ; Liver ; Lymph Nodes ; Pancreatic Neoplasms ; Pruritus ; Stents*

The purpose of this study is to verify severity of asthma in asthmatic patients through through the arterial blood gas analysis. Subjects were consisted of 103 patients (74 boys and 29 girls), between 2~13 years of ages. Clinically, asthmatic patients were classified into 6 groups, i, e., group 0(no rhonchi), group 1(rhonchi only), group 2(mild attack), group 3(moderate attack), group 4(severe attack), group 5(respiratory failure with disturbance of consciousness). PH kept normal range in the group 0, group 1, group 1 and group 3,but began decrease in the group 4.There was linear fall in Po2 and began decrease in the group 3. HCO3- maintained normal level through the whole range. BE showed acidemia on the whole, and began distinctive decrease in the group 4 and group 5, especially. Hypoxemia, hypercapnia and acidemia were common in patients in severe attacks with disturbance of consciousness.
Anoxia ; Asthma ; Blood Gas Analysis* ; Child* ; Consciousness ; Humans ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Hypercapnia ; Reference Values

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Cisplatin* ; Drug Therapy* ; Humans ; Hysterectomy* ; Mitomycin* ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms*

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Breast Diseases* ; Breast*

BACKGROUND : Borame hospital nuns geriatric wards with 120 beds (40 beds for patients in Dept. of Internal Medicine, 40 for patients in Dept. of Orthopedics 40 for patients in Dept. of Neurology) from December 1996. We studied clinical characteristics of admissions to acute geriatric wards in Borame hospital in order to assess current status of geriatric wards in Korea. METHODS : 334 patients admitted from December 1996 to May 1997 were studied. By reviewing clinical records of these patients, we studied clinical characteristics of patients in geriatric wards retrospectively. RESULTS : 1) Age distribution: 8.6% of patients were over 85 years old. 16.4% of patients were between age of 80-84. 20.0% between 75-79, 31.3% between 70-74, 26.3% between 65-69, respectively. 2) Disease: 43% of patients have single disease, 67% of patients have multiple disease(23% of patients with 2 disease, 25% with 3 disease, 6% with 4 disease, 3% with over 5 disease respectively). 3) Mortality rate :Total mortality rates were 4.3% with 6.1% of patients in Internal medicine, 3.2% of patients in Neurology. These rates were much higher compared with mortality rates of 2.4% in general wards but similar to those (6.7%) in general wards in Internal medicine. 4) Causes of admission: Malignancies were most common causes of admissions in males, and then cerebrovascular diseases, infectious diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, in order. Musculoskeletal diseases were most common causes, and then diabetes mellitus, infectious diseases, cerebrovascular diseases. CONCLUSION : The elderly patients tend to have multiple diseases, longer hospital stays and higher mortality rates compared with younger patients in general wards. but differences of hospital stays and mortality rates are less than be expected.
Age Distribution ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Communicable Diseases ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Humans ; Internal Medicine ; Korea ; Length of Stay ; Male ; Mortality ; Musculoskeletal Diseases ; Neurology ; Orthopedics ; Patients' Rooms ; Retrospective Studies

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Angiomyoma* ; Vulva*

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Angiomyoma* ; Vulva*