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Surgical Treatment of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis after Reconstruction of the Intervalvular Fibrous Trigon -A case report- (판막간 섬유체 재건을 시행한 후 발생한 인공판막 심내막염의 수술적 치유 -1예 보고-)

  • Choi, Seon-Uoo;Kim, Wook-Sung;Min, Ho-Ki;Kang, Min-Woong;Lee, Young-Tak;Park, Pyo-Won
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.41 no.6
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    • pp.755-758
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    • 2008
  • We report here on a case of performing a redo-operation for a 65-years-old male patient who had prosthetic endocarditis after reconstruction of the fibrous skeleton due to infective endocarditis 8 years earlier. An aortic annular abscess with a 1cm sized subvalvular abscess and mobile mitral valve vegetation with destruction of the fibrous skeleton was shown on the preoperative echocardiography. An emergency operation was performed due to heart failure. Reconstruction of both the aortic and mitral annuli and the fibrous skeleton was done by using two separate bovine pericardial patches and then mechanical valves were implanted. The postoperative echocardiography shows no paravalvular leakage. The patient has been followed up with no symptoms.

Management of Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis with Thoracoscopy (흉강경을 이용한 하행 괴사성 종격동염의 치료)

  • Lee, Sung-Ho;Sun, Kyung;Kim, Kwang-Taik
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.161-165
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    • 2002
  • Descending necrotizing mediastinitis is a life-threatening infection originating in the head or the neck and descends into the mediastinum. Even in the era of antibiotics, mortality rate has been reported to be 25 ∼ 40%. Prompt diagnosis and treatment is mandatory for delayed diagnosis and inappropriate drainage of the mediastinum are the main causes of high mortality Surgical management ranges from cervical drainage to routin thoracotomy:however, the optimal management still needs to be defined particularly in respect to effective mediastinal drainage. Although posterolateral thoracotomy incision has been considered as a standard approach, potential disadvantages including postoperative pain, risk of wound complication and delayed recovery remain to be concerned. Thoracoscopic approach is an attractive treatment modality as it can provide an excellent exposure with minimal incision and can complete drainage from the mediastinum and the neck in one-staged manner We describe here two cases of descending necrotizing mediastinitis successfully managed by thoracoscopic drainage.

Surgical Role of the Treatment of the Patients with Infective Endocarditis in Childhood (아동기 전염성 심내막염 환자치료의 외과적 역할)

  • 김경환;서경필
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.30 no.12
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    • pp.1175-1183
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    • 1997
  • Background. Infective endocarditis s an uncommon but serious disease in children. Optimal treatment strategy, especially surgical indications, continues to evolve. Method. In this report, we retrospectively reviewed 19 patients who underwent operations in Seoul National University Children's Hospital for infective endocarditis between September 1986 and February 1996. There were 8 male and 11 female patients(mean age 70.6 months) and their main symptoms were fever and dyspnea. Preoperative echocardiography detected vegetation in 14 cases out of 19. Congenital anomalies were in 15 cases and acquired forms were in 4 cases. Causative organisms were identified in 12 cases and Gram-positive cocci were in 7 cases. Adequate preoperative antibiotic management was done. Result. With cardiopulmonary bypass in all cases, surgical corrections including vegetation removal were performed. 4 patients died after operations(21.1%). All the mortality cases were having underlying complex cardiac anomalies. There were no late deaths. Act arial survival rate was 79.0% at 1 year and 79.0% at 5 year and reoperationfree survival rate was 73.7% at 1 year and 73.7% at 5 year. Collclusion. Despite advances in antibiotic therapy, early surgical treatment is imperative in a significant subset, and concurrent intracardiac repair should be appropriate.

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Result of Surgical Treatment for Infective Endocarditis (심내막염 환자의 수술적 치료성적)

  • Choe, Sun-Ho;Yang, Hyeon-Ung;Lee, Sam-Yun
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.157-163
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    • 1996
  • Between January 1986 and June 1994, 23 patients underwent surgical intervention for infective endocarditis at Wonkwang University Hospital. There were 13 male and 5 female, ran ing in age from 13 to 67(mean 43.7 $\pm$ 5.8) years. 21 had native valve endocarditis and 2 had prosthetic valve endocardits. The most common causative organism was streptococci in 9 patients, and the others were staphylococci in 7 patients and unknown in 7 patients. The infection was in the mitral valve in 10 patients, the aortic valve in 6 patients, the aortic and mitral In 5 patients, 2 in tricuspid. Surgical indications for surgery were intractable congestive heart failure, giant growing vegetation and severe valvular insufficiency. There were 3 perioperative death (13%) and no late death. The main causes of death were cerebral embolism in 2 due to recurrent endocarditis and low cardiac output in 1. By NYHA functional classification, all patients were in class III or IV preoperatively, and all patients were improved postoperatively with HYHA functional classification in class I or II. In conclussion, early operative intervention is life-salving in patients with persistent or progres ive congestive heart failure, irrespective of the activity of the infectious process or the duration of antibiotic therapy.

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Homograft Replacement in Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis(PVE) -One Case Report (심내막염 환자의 동종이식편 치환술 -1례 보고-)

  • Park, Jung-Won;Park, Guk-Yang;Kim, Ung-Han
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.30 no.8
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    • pp.815-818
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    • 1997
  • Prosthetic valve endocarditis(PVE), although uncommon, is associated with significant mortality if the infection spreads into the paravavular structures with later abscess formation. However, combined antibiotic and surgical treatment is often successful. Accurate diagnosis by on echocardiography, effective myocardial protection during operation and increased surgical experience have improved the short-term and long-term outcomes for patients with PVE. A 35-year-old male had a history of replacement of aortic and mitral valve, and tricuspid annuloplasty on August 1994, was admitted due to sudden onset of aphasia, leftward deviation of both eyeballs and spiking fever and diagnosed of having PVE by echocardiography. Reoperation was done after 6weeks of antibiotic treatment. On the operative field, we could notice circumferential vegetation along aortic valve annulus, paravalvular leakage and abscess pocket. The mitral valve amlulus was healthy. The patient underwent redo aortic valve replacement using cryopreserved aortic homograft after radical debridement of infected issue. During the follow up of 7 months period the homograft was well functioning without recurrence of symptoms.

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Primary Sternal Osteomyelitis -A case report- (원발성 흉골 골수염 - 1예 보고-)

  • Yi In-Ho;Youn Hyo-Chul;Kim Dae-Hyun;Kim Soo-Cheol;Cho Kyu-Seok;Park Joo-Chul;Kwak Young-Tae;Kim Bum-Shik
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.39 no.4 s.261
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    • pp.340-342
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    • 2006
  • Primary sternal osteomyelitis is a rare disease. Primary sternal osteomyelitis occurring during childhood is extremely rare; therefore, only eleven cases have been reported in the English language literatures. The predisposing factors of primary sternal osteomyelitis are malnutrition, immune deficiency, intravenous injection, blunt chest trauma, and sickle cell anemia. Drainage of pus with antibiotic therapy is the treatment of choice. We report a case of primary sternal osteomyelitis occurred in a 16-year old boy, who had no predisposing factors, with review of literatures.

Concurrent Medullary Carcinoma and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis: A Case Report with an Emphasis on US Features (하시모토 갑상선염과 동반된 갑상선 수질암의 증례 보고: 초음파 소견을 중심으로)

  • Hyoung Yeob Kim;Noh Hyuck Park
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.84 no.5
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    • pp.1146-1151
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    • 2023
  • Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare malignancy that originates from the parafollicular cells of the thyroid gland. Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is an autoimmune thyroid disease and is the most common cause of hypothyroidism. Previous studies have frequently discussed the association among HT, papillary thyroid carcinoma, and thyroid lymphoma. However, there have been few reports on the ultrasonographic findings of concomitant HT and MTC. In the present case, a heterogeneous hypoechoic background parenchymal echogenicity, with intraglandular echogenic strands, and increased vascularity were observed. A concurrent, ill-defined, parallel-oriented, heterogeneous hypoechoic mass with central microcalcifications was located at the left thyroid gland, consistent with reported US findings of medullary thyroid carcinoma except for an ill-defined margin in our case.

Clinical Features of Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Gastroenteropathy without Purpura before Diagnosis (진단 전에 자반이 동반되지 않았던 Henoch-Schönlein 자반 위장병증의 임상적 고찰)

  • Oh, Jae Min;Park, Jae Hong
    • Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.54-60
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: Henoch-$Sch{\ddot{o}}nlein$ purpura (HSP) is a small-vessel vasculitic disease that most often affects the skin. Abdominal symptoms precede the typical purpuric rash of HSP in 14~36%. It is a challenge to diagnose HSP in the absence of a rash, because there are no biologic tests that can identify HSP with certainty, so we tried to find out the characteristic features of HSP gastroenteropathy without purpura before diagnosis. Methods: This study included 82 children with HSP who had been admitted or visited outward of the Department of Pediatrics, Pusan National University Hospital from 1995 to 2000. The cases that the onset of purpura preceded or coincided that of abdominal pain were defined as purpura-positive group. The cases that the onset of abdominal pain preceded purpura more than 1 week and purpura was not presented till diagnosed as HSP gastroenteropathy were defined as purpura-negative group. We compared and analyzed the clinical features of the two groups by reviewing the medical records retrospectively. To ensure the diagnosis of HSP gastroenteropathy, we conducted upper GI series, abdominal ultrasonogram, abdominal CT, endoscopy and/or skin biopsy. Results: The number of cases of purpura-positive group and purpura-negative group were 72 and 10, respectively. There is no difference between two groups in the incidence of clinical symptoms and laboratory findings. Children with HSP gastroenteropathy had characteristic erosive or ulcerative lesions in the stomach or duodenum on esophagogastroduodenoscopy, or mural thickening of the small bowel on abdominal ultrasonogram, CT or upper GI series. Skin biopsy revealed leukocytoclastic vasculitis in 3 of them, although biopsy specimen was taken from any areas of normal- appearing skin. In purpura-negative group, 9 patients improved by steroid therapy. Conclusion: In purpura-negative group, there is no diagnostic feature on the laboratory findings and clinical features. Therefore, to diagnose HSP gastroenteropathy in patients with abdominal pain in the absence of the characteristic rash, careful observation of clinical features and laboratory data, and prompt application of available diagnostic tools such as gastrointestinal endoscopy, radiologic study and skin biopsy are recommended. Early use of corticosteroid may reduce the suffering in these patients.

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Clinial Analysis of Surgical Management for Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis (하행 괴사성 종격동염의 수술적 치료에 대한 임상적 고찰)

  • Yu, Jeong-Hwan;Lim, Seung-Pyung;Lee, Seok-Ki;Kim, Yong-Ho;Kim, Si-Wook;Kang, Shin-Kwang;Yu, Jae-Hyeon;Lee, Young
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.463-468
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    • 2008
  • Background: Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) is a life-threatening cervico-mediastinal infection extending from the oropharynx or periodontal space. We reviewed clinical outcomes of DNM patients that underwent surgical management. Material and Method: We analyzed the demographic and surgical data from 8 patients (6 males and 2 females) that underwent surgical management for DNM between August 2003 and August 2007. Result: The mean age was $56.6{\pm}12.3$ ($34{\sim}72$) years, Types of DNM were I (n=2), IIA (n=1), and IIB (n=5), based on the classification system of Endo et al. Four patients were septic at the time of operation. The infectious organism was identified in three cases and turned out to be Streptococcus. ICU stay was $24.3{\pm}17.9$ ($3{\sim}58$) days, and hospital stay was $49.1{\pm}33.8$ ($20{\sim}125$) days, There were two deaths (25%), both of which were due to multi-organ failure. Conclusion: Despite aggressive surgical drainage and appropriate medical management, DNM still had a high mortality rate, Early diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention are key to DNM management. In addition, transcervical drainage should be used in limited disease only.

Acute hemorrhagic edema in an infant mimicking Henoch-Schönlein purpura: a case study (헤노호-쉔라인 자반증으로 오인된 영아 급성 출혈성 부종 1례)

  • Lee, Hyang Mo;Kang, Eun Young;Kim, Han Uk;Hwang, Pyoung Han
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.49 no.12
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    • pp.1354-1357
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    • 2006
  • Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI) is an uncommon form of cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis that occurs in infants and children younger than 2 years. AHEI is characterized clinically by marked peripheral edema and fever as well as large palpable purpuric and ecchymotic skin lesions in a target-like pattern, mainly on the face, ears and extremities, similar to the skin findings of $Henoch-Sch{\ddot{o}}nlein$ purpura (HSP). The skin lesions heal spontaneously within one to three weeks and internal organs are rarely affected. We report a case of AHEI occurring in a 23-month-old boy who was initially misdiagnosed as HSP, and was later diagnosed according to his clinical symptoms and histochemical characteristics.