• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.659-665
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• 2008

Uroflowmetry is a non-invasive and easily performed method to diagnose the benign prostate hypertrophy(BPH) which is frequently found in the aged men. There are some manufactures to provide a diagnosis tool for the benign prostate hypertrophy. Conventional products, however, render only the result of parameters related with prostate hypertrophy, not additional information such as the uroflowmetry variation and related personal information. In this paper, we developed an effective system for feature extraction of prostate hypertrophy as well as online program for wireless networked database management which can be used under ubiquitous environments and Labview based Window program.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.56 no.5
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• pp.536-541
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• 2004

Streptococcus pyogenes 는 지역 사회 폐렴의 드문 원인균으로 독감, 홍역, 만성 폐쇄성 폐질환등의 합병증으로 대부분 발생하고 진행 경과가 빠르며, 고령 및 패혈증을 동반한 경우 특히 사망률이 높다고 알려져 있다. 저자들은 만성 폐쇄성 폐질환 환자에서 균혈증을 동반한 Streptococcus pyogenes 폐렴 1 예를 보고한다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.34-39
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• 1990

Fifty-one cases of acute herpes zoster infection were analyzed to search for the most effective management strategy of the disease, including pain relief and decreasing the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia. Anti-viral treatment was not included. Analgesics and nerve blocks, such as stellate ganglion block or epidural block, were helpful. Corticosteroid was administered in most of the cases either systemically or epidurally or both. Epidural administration of local anesthetic in combination with corticosteroid seemed to have certain advantages of excellent pain relief as a result of sympathetic blockade and regional plus systemic anti-inflammatory effects of the steroid, although this was not proved by definite statistical evidence.

• The Journal of the Korean bone and joint tumor society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.89-93
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• 2012

The most common anatomic location of calcific tendinitis is the suprasupinatus muscle of the shoulder joint. However, it is known to develop in any joint including the hip, knee. Infarction of skeletal muscle in the distal areas of the limbs due to vascular occlusion is a well recognized systemic condition in patients who have diabetes. The author experienced mass-like lesion combined muscle infarction and calcification within pure semitendinosus tendon without diabetes in posterosuperior area of distal thigh in old age.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.874-877
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• 2003

Necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis usually occurs in the immumocompromised host. Aspergillus invades bronchial epithelium and forms endobronchial mass or endobronchial stenosis. A 78-year-old male patient with diabetus mellitus complaining of dyspnea and cough was admitted to our hospital. Plain chest X-ray and chest computed tomogram showed a large endobronchial mass and total collapse of left upper lobe of the lung. Bronchoscopic biopsy of the endobronchial mass revealed chronic inflammation. To confirm the endobronchial mass, we performed sleeve lobectomy of left upper lobe of the lung. Histologically the mass was diagnosed as necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis. We report a case of necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis in an elderly man who has diabetus mellitus with review of the literature.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.94-96
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• 1989

The cases of continuous epidural catheterization for pain control have increased nowadays. Epidural abscess, one of the complications of continuous epidural catheterization. can cause severe and permanent neurologic deficit. Though the incidence of epidural abscess is rare, we should devote every effort to prevention of abscess formation. And in the occurrence of epidural abscess formation, treatment should be started as early as possible with antibiotic therapy and surgical drainage to prevent permanent neurologic deficit. We experienced a case of epidural abscess following continuous epidural catheterization, and so the case is presented.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.136-143
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• 2002

Even though the nonketotic hyperglycemia is a metabolic disorder, it complicates hemichorea-hemiballism rarely. Moreover, generalized chorea-ballism associated with nonketotic hyperglycemia in diabetes mellitus is very rare, so it has not been reported in Korean literature. Although the precise pathophysiologic mechanisms of these disorders are still poorly understood, deficiency of gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) in nonketotic hyperglycemia or reduced GABAnergic inhibition by striatal lesion may increase inhibitory output to subthalamic nucleus. These result loss of pallidal inhibition and produce contralateral hemichorea-hemiballism. The striatal lesions, such as transient ischemia with reactive astrocytosis or small amount of petechial hemorrhage, are related with changes of magnetic resonance image (MRI) findings presumably. We report a diabetic old woman who developed generalized chorea-ballismus as a very rare complication of nonketotic hyperglycemia. Her brain MRI showed high signal intensity in left lentiform nucleus and right pallidum on T1 weighted images and low signal intensity in bilateral putamen on T2 weighted images with highly enhanced corresponding lesions on T1 weighted enhancement images.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1391-1397
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• 2013

As Korea is expected to enter an aging society in near future, the number of patients who need a long-term prescription is expected to increase as well. In particular, Korea shows the highest in both the incident rate and the death rate among OECD member nations. The current situation requires more strict monitoring and management for patients' taking medicine, there are a few practical problems such as personnel expenses. In order to realize the efficient management of medicine administration, this paper proposes a smart pillbox that is developed based on IT technologies. Through the experiments in which actual patients participate, it is proved that the smart pillbox is beneficial to the patients taking medicine.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2737-2742
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• 2009

Researches of U-Healthcare have been fulfilled lively with an advanced age and change of lifestyles. Especially, medical field has focused on researches of U-Healthcare due to that reasons. The U-Healthcare service requires the foundation technologies, such as sensor aggregating, data transmitting and realtime monitoring technologies, In this study, we implemented medical sensor that applied Bluetooth technology to guarantee the patient's movement. Moreover, we also implemented a gateway which based on Google Android System in ARM 11 Embedded system.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.89-94
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• 2014

This research notes dramatic increase of wheelchair usage along with rapidly aging population and handicapped people in Korea. Differentiated from existing electronic wheelchairs, we have invented an electronic wheelchair that is collapsible even when the battery is installed and a guardian can ride along with a patient. It is also easy to put in a small space such as car trunks. Additionally, we have improved stoic design to be preferable for patients. The model ensures there's neither abrupt acceleration nor sudden stop and, lastly, is much cheaper than other imported models.