No abstract available.
Cleft Lip* ; Congenital Abnormalities* ; Nose* ; Transplants*

A statistical observations were made on total 79 In-Patients in the departments of dermatology, Dongsan Presbyterian Hospital, Kyungpook National University and Fatima Hospital, Taegu, Korea during the period from Sept. 1, 1975 to August 31, 1976.
Daegu* ; Dermatology* ; Gyeongsangbuk-do* ; Korea* ; Protestantism*

BACKGROUND: Peak expiratory flow (PEF) provides a simple, quantitative, and reproducible measure of the existence and severity of airflow obstructions. Peak flow meters are designed to monitor the condition asthma patients. There are many reports showing the normal predicted value of PEF in other countries. studies on healthy Korean adults have been performed in a relatively small sample number and a lower limit for the normal value was not reported. therefore, an attempt to provide normal predictive PEF value with a lower limit was made. METHOD: The PEF(Mini-Wright peak Flow Meter) measurements and spirometry were done in 233 men and 631 woman without history of respiratory disease. all subjects were non-smokers with no respiratory symptoms. the normal predictive value and its lower limit were developed by multiple regression analysis. The result was compared with regression equations in other reports. RESULTS: The regression equation for the normal PEF predictive value(L/min) is 25.117+4.587×Age(year)-0.064×Age2+2.931×Height(cm) in men in men(R2=0.25), and 146.942-0.011×Age2+1.795×Height(cm)+0.836×Weight (kg) in women(R2=0.21). The regression equation for the lower limit of this value (L/min) is 25.117+4.587×Age(year)-0.064×Age2+1.936×Height (cm) in men, and 146.942-0.011×Age2+1.232× Height (cm)+0.481×Weight (kg) in women. The residuals were normally distributed. The PEF in Korean males was similar to those reported in British and Japanese subjects. The PEF in Korean females was similar to that in British subjects, But higher than the PEF in Japanese subjects. The lower limit of normal value was 71% of normal predictive PEF value in men and 76% in women. CONCLUSION: The normal predictive PEF value and its lower limit was measured from 233 male and 631 female asymptomatic, lifelong non-smoking participants. The normal predictive value was different from those of other studies on Korean subjects. Therefore, further studies are required.
Adult ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Asthma ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Reference Values ; Spirometry

Stable angina is a chronic, systemic disease with a wide range of associated symptoms and clinical outcomes. Prompt diagnosis can be challenging for clinicians. Typical chest pain caused by stable angina occurs when the myocardium receives inadequate oxygen, resulting in myocardial ischemia. Various diagnostic tools including non-invasive tests such as coronary computed tomographic angiography and image-based stress tests have evolved over the last decade. An important factor in the selection of the proper diagnostic test for stable angina is assessment of the pre-test probability in the event of possible coronary arterial stenosis.

Stable angina is a chronic, systemic disease with a wide range of associated symptoms and clinical outcomes. Prompt diagnosis can be challenging for clinicians. Typical chest pain caused by stable angina occurs when the myocardium receives inadequate oxygen, resulting in myocardial ischemia. Various diagnostic tools including non-invasive tests such as coronary computed tomographic angiography and image-based stress tests have evolved over the last decade. An important factor in the selection of the proper diagnostic test for stable angina is assessment of the pre-test probability in the event of possible coronary arterial stenosis.

No abstract available.
Gonadal Dysgenesis, Mixed*

PURPOSE: Residual head tilt has been reported in patients with superior oblique muscle palsy (SOP) after surgery to weaken the inferior oblique (IO) muscle. The treatments for these patients have not received appropriate attention. In this study, we evaluated the superior rectus (SR) muscle recession as a surgical treatment. METHODS: The medical records of 12 patients with SOP were retrospectively reviewed. Each of these patients had unilateral SR muscle recession for residual head tilt after IO muscle weakening due to SOP. The residual torticollis was classified into three groups on the basis of severity: mild, moderate, or severe. Both IO muscle overaction and vertical deviation, features of SOP, were evaluated in all patients. The severity of the preoperative and postoperative torticollis and vertical deviation were compared using a paired t-test and Fisher's exact test. RESULTS: The torticollis improved in nine of 12 (75%) patients after SR muscle recession. The difference between the preoperative and postoperative severity of torticollis was statistically significant (p = 0.0008). After surgery, the mean vertical deviation was significantly reduced from 12.4 prism diopters to 1.3 prism diopters (p = 0.0003). CONCLUSIONS: Unilateral SR muscle recession is an effective method to correct residual head tilt after IO muscle weakening in patients with SOP. This surgical procedure is believed to decrease head tilt by reducing the vertical deviation and thereby the compensatory head tilt.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Diplopia/*surgery ; Female ; Head Movements ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Oculomotor Muscles/*surgery ; Retrospective Studies ; Strabismus/*surgery ; Torticollis/*surgery ; Treatment Outcome ; Trochlear Nerve Diseases/*surgery

PURPOSE: We examined the changes in background and characteristics in freshmen in graduate medical school from 2009 to 2011. METHODS: We analyzed the responses to a self-questionnaire which were about sex, age, graduation, major, religion and etc. The data were analyzed by t-test, chi-square test. RESULTS: The freshman population in 2009 and 2011 year was 44% and 58.4% male, and 56% and 41.6% female; had a mean age of 27.3 and 27.4; 41.6% and 32.0% Christian, 33.6% and 47.2% atheist, 76.0% and 68.8% graduates; and 48.0% and 50.4% in the capital region, respectively. With regard to future career, 43.2% and 43.2% of freshmen responded clinical professor, 29.6% and 27.2% private clinics, 8.0% and 13.6% medical researcher, 8.8% and 6.4% public officer, 6.4% and 3.2% basic science faculty, and 4.0% and 6.4% others. With regard to future majors, 20.0% and 20.0% answered internal medicine, 11.2% and 8.0% psychiatrics, 8.8% and 8.8% general surgery, 8.0% and 8.8% pediatrics, 4.8% and 4.8% chest surgery, 33.6% and 36.0% others, and 13.6% and 13.6% undecided, respectively. CONCLUSION: The populations of males, atheists, graduation candidate, and medical researchers increased, those of females, Christian, and those born in Gwangju and Jeonnam decreased, and those of mean age, future careers and majors, birth place in the capital region were unchanged.
Female ; Humans ; Hypogonadism ; Internal Medicine ; Male ; Mitochondrial Diseases ; Ophthalmoplegia ; Pediatrics ; Population Characteristics ; Residence Characteristics ; Schools, Medical ; Thorax

No abstract available.
Kidney Transplantation*

PURPOSE: We changed a lot of the medical curricula to accept the freshman of graduate medical students in 2009. We surveyed the satisfaction of new medical curricula from graduate medical students. METHODS: We analysed the returned questionnaires from 118 freshmen of graduate medical students. RESULTS: The number of boys and girls was 56 (47.5%) and 62 (52.5%), respectively and of married students was 10 (8.5%). The graduate students thought that the future prospect was very positive and positive in 40.7%. The 77.1 percentages of medical students understood about 40~80% of the basic medicine. The satisfaction of medical curriculum was average 3.30 by Likert scale. The satisfaction of the professor who have enough information to the subjects was 4.00 and of integrated subjects which were organically related without repetition was 2.85 by Likert scale. Graduate students asked to strengthen clinical medicine lecture and practice. CONCLUSION: Generally, the satisfaction of the new medical curricula was positive in graduate students. But the satisfaction of the contents of the integrated subjects was lowest and so we have to check the organic relationship of integrated subjects.
Clinical Medicine ; Curriculum ; Humans ; Schools, Medical ; Students, Medical ; Surveys and Questionnaires