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Child* ; Glomerulonephritis* ; Humans ; Nephrotic Syndrome* ; Plasma* ; Renin*

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B-Lymphocytes* ; Lymph Nodes* ; Mitogens*

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Lithotripsy* ; Shock*

Lidocaine is considered a safe and effective local anesthetic in anesthesiology and is the standard to which new amide anesthetics are compared. As it an amide derivative, and the frequency with which lidocaine elicits an allergic response is much less than that of anesthetics derived from paraaminobenroic acid esters. Case reports od sensitivity to lidoeaine have been reported, but they are rare. This 29 year old male patient had on episode of asthmatic breathing after supraclavicular brachial plexus block using 30 ml of 1% lidocaine with epinephrine(1:200,000). We report a case of asthmatic breathing due to lidocaine and a review of the literature for allergy local anesthetics.
Adult ; Anesthesiology ; Anesthetics ; Anesthetics, Local ; Brachial Plexus ; Esters ; Humans ; Hypersensitivity ; Lidocaine* ; Male ; Respiration*

For recent 3 years, l8 GSI patients were followed for more than 6 months after surgical treatment with Raz procedure. Posterior urethrovesical angle(PUVA), urethral inclination angle (UIA), and bladder neck descent below the upper border of symphysis pubis(BN) on voiding chain cystourethrogram were measured preoperatively and postoperatively with respect to the grade of preoperative incontinence and postoperative period of voiding difficulty. UIA and BN in Stamey grade II group(N=9) were 57+/-14.6 degrees and 5.4+/-l.1cm, which were significantly higher than 39+/-7.6 degrees and 4.3+/-0.9cm in Stamey grade I group(N= 9) (P <0.05). Normal values of PUVA and UIA were defined as 90-l00 and 0-45. Depending on the duration of postoperative voiding difficulty, mean values of postoperative PUVA and UIA were normal(90+/-18.9' and 8+/-16.9') in the 1st week group(N=9), but lower than normal values(ie, overcorrected) in l-2 week group( 64+/-2l.3 and -l0+/-8.9 ) and in over 2 week group( 50+/-l0.0' and -11+/-2.2' ). Duration of postoperative voiding difficulty was 3.5+/-1.6 days in properly corrected Green type I group(N=6) and 8.3+/-l.2 days in properly corrected Green type II group(N=3), but it was much longer in overcorrected groups. From the above results, it is inferred that chain cystourethrography can be used as a useful means to predict the duration of postoperative voiding difficulty in GSI patients and prolonged postoperative voiding difficulty can be prevented by taking care not to overcorrect the bladder neck during Raz procedure.
Humans ; Neck ; Postoperative Period ; Reference Values ; Urinary Bladder

Atrial septal defect is one of the most common congenital heart diseases in adult, of which absolute causes is not confirmed, but explained by multifactorial inheritance. In Korea, there has been no case report of atrial septal defect in identical twins in spite of some reports of atrial septal defect in relatives and twins in other countries. We present a first case of atrial septal defect in identical twins whose mother had no infection or medication history during pregnancy.
Adult ; Heart Diseases ; Heart Septal Defects, Atrial* ; Humans ; Korea ; Mothers ; Multifactorial Inheritance ; Pregnancy ; Twins ; Twins, Monozygotic*

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Bacteria*

PURPOSE: Although double-J ureteral stents are used prophylactically to reduce morbidity and complications following shock wave lithotripsy(SWL), the efficacy is still controversial. To evaluate the efficacy of urethral stunting in SWL of medium sized(1.5-2.5cm) renal calculi, we performed a randomized study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analysed the outcome of SWL in 46 patients with medium sized(1.5-2.5cm) solitary renal calculi. The study population was divided Into two groups, group 1 consisting of patients who had urethral stents before SWL(n=21) and group 2 of those who did not(n=25). Several variables, including complications, operation requirements and stone free rates, were evaluated. RESULTS: There were no statistical differences between group 1 and group 2 in the incidence of ureteral obstruction or steinstrasse(19% vs 20%), hospitalization (10% vs 16%), operation requirements(10% vs 12%) and stone free rate after 3 months(81% vs 76%). Of 21 patients with stunts, 4(19%) had urinary frequency or urgency and 4(19%) had dysuria. CONCLUSIONS: Regarding our results, placement of urethral stents would not be useful in SWL of medium sized renal calculi.
Calculi ; Dysuria ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Incidence ; Kidney ; Kidney Calculi* ; Lithotripsy* ; Shock* ; Stents* ; Ureter* ; Ureteral Obstruction

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Arteritis* ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic* ; Nephritis*