• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2001

게이트 심근 SPECT 영상은 좌심실 구혈률(EF), 확장기말 부피(end-diastolic volume), 수축기말(end-systolic volume)부피 등의 지표로 심근의 기능을 평가하는데 널리 이용된다. 이러한 지표들을 구하기 위해서는 심근 안팎의 경계선을 추출해야 한다. 본 연구는 좌심실의 SPECT short-axis 영상에서 전처리 과정을 거친 영상을 Hough Transform을 이용하여 초기점 설정한 후 심실 내외벽의 경계선을 추출하기 위해 Williams 가 제안한 Active Contour Model(snakes)을 이용하여 심근의 경계선을 자동으로 추출하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.508-510
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• 2001

건강과 장수에 관심이 많은 현대인에게 심장 질환은 꾸준히 증가하고 있다. 심장 질환을 측정하기 위하여 정확한 진단은 꼭 필요한 부분인데, 정확한 측정을 위해서 원하는 부분의 정확한 이미지 획득은 중요한 부분이다. 기존의 M-mode 이미지와 2자원 이미지는 각자의 장점과 단점을 가지고 있는데, 이 이미지들을 이용하여 정확한 결과를 얻기는 어려운 일이다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 두 이미지의 장점을 혼합하여 새로운 이미지를 생성하였다. 즉, Synthetic M-mode 이미지라고 불리는 새로운 좌심실 이미지는 사용자가 측정하고 싶은 부분의 이미지를 정확히 재 생성하여 보다 좋은 결과를 얻게 하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1997 no.05
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• pp.318-321
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• 1997

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.181-187
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• 1990

Congenital diverticulosis of the left ventricle is an extremely rare maldevelopment. We report a 9 year old girl with probable isolated left ventricular diverticulum in whom the diagnosis was made by cross sectional echocardiography and by angiography.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.363-365
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• 2008

Accessory mitral valve tissue is a very rare congenital cardiac malformation and it is an uncommon cause of left Ventricular outflow tract obstruction(LVOTO). The pathogenetic mechanism of subaortic obstruction is thought to be systolic ballooning of the abnormal valve tissue into LVOT. We are reporting a case of an accessory mitral valve tissue that was associated with LVOTO, and this was completely relieved after trans-aortic surgical excision of the accessory tissue.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.715-720
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• 2014

In order to maximize the effect of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) on ventricular unloading, the therapy should be begun at appropriate level of heart failure severity. We predicted pumping efficacy of LVAD according to the severity of heart failure theoretically. We used 3 dimensional finite element model of ventricle coupled with 6 Wind-kessel compartmental model of vascular system. Using the computational model, we predicted cardiac responses such as contractile ATP consumption of ventricle, left ventricular pressure, cardiac output, ejection fraction, and stroke work according to the severity of ventricular systolic dysfunction under the treatments of continuous LVAD. Contractile ATP consumption, which indicates the ventricular energetic loading condition decreased maximally at the $5^{th}$ level heart-failure under LVAD therapy. We conclude that optimal timing for LVAD treatment is $5^{th}$ level heart-failure when considering LVAD treatment as "bridge to recovery".

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.269-278
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of left ventricular diastolic function on exercise capacity in hypertensive patients with obesity compared to the obese group. Adults who visited a general hospital in Gyeonggi-do from 2016 to 2019(man: 308, women: 192) were divided into 4 groups according to hypertension and obesity. In the hypertensive obesity group(IV), the A wave and E/E' wave were significantly higher than the normotensive obesity group(II), and the E' wave was significantly lower(respectively p<0.001). The group IV had significantly lower METS(metabolic equivalents) and exercise duration than the group II(respectively p<0.001). In group IV, E/A ratio was positively correlated with METS(p=0.025) and exercise duration(p=0.026). In contrast, E/E' wave in these groups showed a negative correlation with the exercise duration(p=0.046).

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.39 no.7 s.264
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• pp.549-552
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• 2006

In the mitral regurgitation (MR) accompanied with a serious ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICMP), coronary revascularization to viable myocardium, LV reduction and mitral reconstruction become the main surgery under the bad conditions that the cardiac transplantation is not so easy. The MR in ischemic cardiomyopathy appears as various pathologic factors, among them, the papillary muscle displacement in addition to the annular dilatation is pointed out as the important cause. Our hospital would like to report the experience of the surgery about coronary revascularization to the left main with 3-vessel coronary disease, severe ICMP patients accompanied with the MR, posterior mitral annuloplasty and papillary muscle plication through the LVtomy.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.180-183
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• 2010

Submitral left ventricular aneurysm (SMLVA) is a rare disease entity that exclusively occurs in the black population. We herewith report on a surgical case of SMLVA in a 68-year-old male who presented with ventricular tachycardia. He underwent surgical repair under standard hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. In the state of apical elevation, a vertical ventriculotomy was made directly over the aneurysm, which was located at the posterobasal aspect of the left ventricle. Radiofrequency ablation was performed on the endocardium all around the neck of the aneurysm and then patch endoaneurysmorrhaphy was carried out with particular care not to injure the mitral valve and subvalvular structure. His postoperative recovery was uneventful. There has been no dysfunction of the mitral valve or recurrence of the ventricular tachycardia at 2 years' follow-up.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.40 no.6 s.275
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• pp.448-450
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• 2007

The mortality of left ventricular free wall rupture after acute myocardial infarction is high; however, subactue myocardial rupture can be diagnosed by echocardiogram and the use of the intraaortic balloon pump reduces the incidence of re-rupture. Bleeding from subacute myocardial rupture can be managed by employing fibrin glue and several patches. We report here on a case of successfully managed case of subactue left ventricular free wall rupture after acute myocardial infarction with using the sutureless technique and fibrin glue.