• The Journal of Korean Medicine Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and Dermatology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.106-122
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• 2022

Objectives : In this study, we aimed to analyze the latest knowledge of pityriasis rosea(PR) through oriental-western medical review on PR. Methods : We searched Pubmed, CNKI, and OASIS to select papers related to the cause, mechanism, diagnosis, classification, treatment, and herbal treatment of PR. Results : The results are as follows. 1. Although the exact cause of PR is not known, it has recently been found that reactivation of latent human herpesvirus-6 and human herpesvirus-7 infection is a possible etiology. Most patients require emollients, antihistamines, topical steroids, and macrolides. Acyclovir, and narrow-band UVB therapy are also used. 2. The cause and mechanism of PR in Chinese and Korean medicine can be mainly summarized as wind-heat, blood heat, and blood deficiency and wind-dryness. Most of the herbal medicine used have the effects of clearing heat, cooling the blood, detoxifying, dispelling wind, relieving itching, nourishing blood, and moistening dryness. Conclusions : In Chinese and Korean medicine, it is necessary to organize the representative prescriptions according to pattern identification, and it is also necessary to study the atypical types of PR and its treatment methods. It is thought that research on oriental and western combination therapy should be continuously conducted, and efforts to develop Korean medicine formulations are needed to revitalize clinical research in Korea.

• Journal of Korean Medical classics
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.11-20
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• 2024

Objectives : This study aims to examine the cause, symptoms, and treatment of Shiji in Korean Medicine, to establish foundation for applied research in the future. Methods : Contents on Shiji in the Donguibogam were selected and categorized according to cause, symptom and treatment. Medical significance and its relationship with contemporary diagnosis were examined. Results : Shiji is caused by weakness in the Spleen and Stomach, overeating, consumption of raw or cold food, external contraction, emotional damage, etc., while gastrointestinal symptoms such as stomach pain and diarrhea and other symptoms such as cold damage, phlegm, cough, back pain, flank pain are triggered. For treatment of gastrointestinal symptoms, Pingweisan is applied as basis, while for other symptoms, Erchentang supplemented with digestion stimulating medicinals such as Shanzhazhi, Shenqu, Maiya, etc., is applied. Conclusions : Shiji is related to conditions such as IBS, gastroesophageal reflux, functional indigestion, food-related skin allergies, polyps, etc. Shiji not only refers to stagnated food within the body, but should be understood as a broad term that includes reactive dysfunction of the nervous system caused by poor food hygiene and gastrointestinal hypofunction.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.295-298
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• 1977

The incidence of abdominal aortic aneurysm is very rare in this country as other disease of the aorta. Aneurysm can be cased by a variable cause but mainly by arteriosclerosis. It is the disease of aged and degeneration. So recently it may be prevalent due to increase of aged people. In general the natural course of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is very grave so surgical intervention is indicated as soon as possible after the diagnosis. Recently a case of abdominal aortic aneurysm was seen in this clinic with abdominal pain and pulsating mass on the abdomen. This case was confirmed by aortography and treated by graft replacement of the aneurysm with favorable result.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.590-596
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• 2000

Cause of excessive vibration with twice the rotational speed of a two-pole generator rotor for the fossil power plants was investigated. The two-pole generator rotor, treated as a typically asymmetric rotor in vibration analysis, produces asynchronous vibration with twice the rotational speed, sub-harmonic critical speeds, and potentially unstable operating zones due to its own inertia and/or stiffness asymmetry. This paper introduces a practical balancing procedure, and presents the results of the investigation on sources of the excessive vibration based on the experimental vibration data of the asymmetric two-pole rotor in balancing.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.470-474
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• 1984

33-year old female was admitted chest surgery department for evaluation of mild chest pain. Chest plain film showed right anterior mediastinal mass and small metastatic daughter mass ipsilateral side. Exploratory thoracotomy was performed 24th Aug. 83 revealed that small nodular parenchymal mass at right middle lobe and large cystic mass at anterior mediastinum which was connected with anterior mediastinal fat. Histological examination confirmed diagnosis as pulmonary hamartoma and thymic cyst individually. We successfully treated these two masses by wedge resection and excision. Although postoperative course was uneventful, the cause and associated relationship between two tumor origin were obscure.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.513-517
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• 1995

The injuries to the bronchi have been reported with increasing frequencies. The most common cause of such injuries is compression or crushing chest trauma. Early diagnosis and emergent repair should be done for the good prognosis. We report 3 cases who had bronchial injuries after traffic accident. Our operative procedures were a primary bronchial repair for 17 months old boy, a pneumonectomy for delayed recognition and a bronchoplasty procedure 63 days after trauma. All these bronchial ruptures were successfully treated and discharged.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.1040-1046
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• 1990

Despite the improved diagnostic and treatment modalities recently introduced for a variety of esophageal disorders, a perforation or leak from the esophagus remains a sources of morbidity and mortality regardless of the cause of leak. After the perforation of esophagus, the contamination of mediastinum and pleural cavity with food, bacteria and corrosive gastric juice leads to sepsis and cardiopulmonary dysfunction. The early diagnosis and early treatment are very important, and the delayed treatment leads to high risk of morbidity and mortality. We experienced one case of esophageal perforation, after forced vomiting in 48 years old male patient. We used omentum on the treatment of ruptured esophagus, and it was successfully managed.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.71 no.2
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• pp.81-87
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• 2011

Asthma is the most common chronic illness to affect children and is a major cause of morbidity in adults, affecting 4~17% of children and 7.3~10.1% of adults, which translates to approximately 300 million people globally. This article reviews recently published data over the past 1~2 years on asthma, and covers the 3 aspects of current advancement for the diagnosis of severe asthma, including the controversy to long-acting bronchodilator treatment for treatment of asthma, and the role of long-acting anticholinergics treatment in asthma patients.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.32.5-32
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• 2002

Processing plasmas are playing a crucial role in either depositing thin films or etching fine patterns. Any variability in process factors (such as radio frequency power or pressure) can cause a significant shift in plasma state. When this shift becomes large enough to change operating condition beyond an acceptable level, overall product quality can greatly be jeopardized. Thus, timely and accurate diagnosis of plasma malfunction is crucial to maintaining device yield and throughput. Many diagnostic systems have been developed, including HIPOCRATES [1] and PIES [2]. Plasma equipment was also diagnosed by combining neural network and expert system called Dempster-Schafer Theory [3]. A fact c...

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2002

Lung cancer has become a loading cause of cancer death in Korea. Positron emission tomography was introduced in clinical nuclear medicine in the early 1990s and many studios using this functional imaging technology were performed for evaluation of its clinical utility. I review the current role of positron emission tomography in the diagnosis, staging, and therapy monitoring of lung cancer.