• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.364-367
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• 1978

Embryonal carcinoma of the mediastinum is a very uncommon disease. This is a report of an embryonal carcinoma in the mediastinum found in a 25 years old Korean male patient who had been suffering from chest pain and intractable coughing for 6 months. 5 weeks prior to this admission hemoptysis and high fever were followed. Right exploratory thoracotomy was performed under the impression of a mediastinal tumor, but found to be unresectable. Irradiation therapy was tried, but no response was observed. Patient expired on 78th day postoperatively.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.158-162
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• 1989

This paper reports a case in a 16-year-old female of intrapulmonary teratoma located in the right upper and middle lobes of the lung. The initial symptoms were high spiking fever, cough and chest pain. Initial chest X-ray revealed large homogenous mass in the right upper and middle lung fields. So intercostal tube drainage was done under the impression of the lung abscess. But mass density was remained on the follow-up chest X-ray, the patient had resection of the right upper and middle lobes of the lung. The gross and microscopic findings of the resected specimen revealed characteristic findings of the intrapulmonary teratoma. The patient is asymtomatic at present and living a normal life.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.240-246
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• 1979

A 15-year-old boy having a small VSD was readmitted with clinical manifestations of acute endocarditis and aortic regurgitation one month after open heart surgery. In spite of vigorous treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics, high fever persisted. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated just one time among several blood cultures. Progressive pulmonary infarction due to embolization. Progressive congestive heart failure and D.I.C. caused patient`s death. Aspergillus was found in autopsy specimen.

• 대한수의사회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.294-298
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• 1986

In pigs inoculated with Pseudorabies virus, clinical, anatomical and histopathological findings were observed. Nervous sings, high fever and collapse were main clinical symptoms. Anatomical findings were not prominent except swollen lymph nodes with hemor

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권10호
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• pp.935-938
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• 1999

Effusive-constrictive pericarditis is a very rare disease in infants but has high motality rates when not treated. There were some reports of pericardial constriction associated with intrapericardial abscess that led to pericardiectomy. The patient was admitted due to fever, cyanosis, and abdominal distension. We treated the patient with antibiotics and pericardiostomy but the symtoms did not improved, therefore, pericardiectomy was perfomed immediately. The patient with effusive-constrictive pericarditis was immediately relief on the symptoms and the treatment was successful.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.346-348
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• 2000

In previous studies, high fever, inappentence, increased respiratory rate, muscle tremors, anemia, jaundice, loss of weight hemoglobinenuria and hemoglobinuria were found in dogs infected intraerythrocytic protzoan parasites of the gennus Babesia. These changes were mainly caused by the intravascular hemolysis. In this study, a Pit Bull Terrier, which was infected by babesia, was investigated clinical signs and patterms of blood. The findings from this study indicated that dog with severs clinical signs shown erythropenia, lymphocytophilia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and eosinpenia. Furthermore, it presenter low level of hemglobin and hematocrit. However MCV, MCH and MCHC did not decreased as compare to normal dogs.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.289-301
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• 2006

Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) for cardiac surgery triggers the production and release of numerous chemotactic substances and cytokines, ensuing systemic inflammatory response that leads to postoperative major organ dysfunction. Traditionally, corticosteroids (steroid) have been administered to patients undergoing cardiac surgery to ward off these detrimental physiologic alterations. However, the majority of the studies have been performed on adult patients with high-dose steroid. We carried out a randomized, prospective, double-blind study to compare the efficacy of low-dose steroid with that of high-dose steroid and to determine the adequate dose of pretreated-steroid for prophylactic effects in pediatric cardiac surgery. Thirty pediatric patients scheduled for elective cardiac surgery were randomly assigned to two groups; fifteen patients received low-dose methylprednisolone (10mg/kg intravenously, n=15, low-dose group) and the others received high-dose methylprednisolone (30mg/kg intravenously, n=15, high-dose group) 1 hour prior to CPB. Arterial blood samples were taken before CPB (Pre-CPB), 10 minutes after start of CPB (CPB-10), and immediately after CPB-end (CPB-OFF) for measuring total leukocyte counts (T-WBC) and diff-counts, platelet counts, interleukin-6 (IL-6), myeloperoxidase (MPO), total antioxidant (TAO), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), troponin I (TNI), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), creatinine, and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels. Other parameters such as volumes of urine output, pulmonary index $(PI,\;PaO_2/FiO_2)$, mechanical ventilating period, intensive care unit (ICU)-staying period, postoperative complications (fever, wound problem), postoperative 24 hrs and total volumes in blood loss, and hospitalized days were also assessed. All parameters were compared between two groups. There were no significant differences in T-WBC counts, monocyte fraction, platelet counts, TA levels, NSE levels, creatinine levels, BUN levels, the volumes of total urine output, PI, the incidences of fever and wound problem, postoperative 24hrs- and total-blood loss volumes and ICU-staying period between two groups (P>0.05). At CPB-OFF, neutrophil fraction, MPO level, TNI level, and AST level were higher in the high-dose group than in the low-dose group (P<0.05). IL-6 level at CPB-10 was higher in the high dose-group than in the low-dose group (P<0.05). Furthermore, mechanical ventilating periods and hospitalized days of the high-dose group were significantly longer than those of low-dose group (P<0.05). The high-dose group had significantly low lymphocyte fi-action at CPB-OFF compared with the low-dose group (P<0.001). These findings suggest that pretreatment of high-dose steroid is not superior to that of low-dose steroid regrading its potential benefits in pediatric cardiac surgery. Therefore, the conventional strategy of steroid treatment, high-dose pretreatment, should be modified in the cardiac surgery with CPB. However, further studies must be performed on the larger number of patients in as much as small number of patients in this study.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.680-685
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• 2007

Power semiconductor which is adapted in the rolling stock has a high practicality for capacity of high voltage and high speed switching. but it has a trouble of fever cause of high speed On, Off switching loss and the operating junction temperature is limited to $150^{/circ}C$ because is made from the silicon for the foundation material. Therefore, it is important to find a way out of this trouble and must make the countermeasure. In this research, the caloric value of the integrated PEM is calculated to adapt the optimized heat pipe and the reliability of the heat pipe is demonstrated through the cooling performance test and vibration test.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1242-1253
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• 2004

Leukemia is a blood disease that occurs in the abnormal process of leukocyte maturation. Its main medical treatment is chemical therapy and bone medical transplant. But its treatments give rise to ill effects and sequela. At present, the cause of leukemia is not fully understood. But oriental concept of curing leukemia is the holistic thinking that emphasizes the unity, wholeness, and the relationship between the human organs, including western medical concept of blood cause. So it is estimated that holistic medical treatment in oriental medicine could present new medical way of curing leukemia. I read over the diary on struggles against leukemia, survey on the leukemia patients, and, medical charts in the oriental clinics that treated in the holistic way, and I interviewed the leukemia patients. With these materials, I classified the early main attacking symptoms according to the chief complaints of one hundred leukemia patients. With these results collected, I present new alternative treatment by oriental medical diagnosis. The chief early complaints that leukemia patients give are fatigue, enervation, cold, contusion, fever, high fever, sweating at sleep, myalgia, arthralgia, and dizziness, in order of main symptoms. Fatigue occurs mainly by spleen and stomach weakness and marrow shortage. So it is estimated that It is important to treat the spleen that is responsible for supplementing the marrow. Because the leukemia patients have anemia and hemorrhage, to treat the spleen is important for hematopoiesis and controlling blood. In case of cold, it penetrates into the body when the body is weak. So its treatment is to increase body's health. But the cause of fever is difficult to classify into outer cause and inner cause. But in case of children under 14 years old, fever is the main sypmptom. I think this is because children have the body with pure vital energy. Hemorrhage is thought to be the result of yin-lack and heat-miasma of spleen and stomach channels. Contusion occurs from the qi-weakness and the not-controlling-blood. Sweating at sleep is from the yin-weakness. It is found with all weak symptoms. Dizziness is from the yin-blood impairment. Weight-loss is from the marrow shortage. Myalgia and arthralgia is mainly from inner weakness, not outer maisma. Most leukemia patients have the idea that holistic treatment of leukemia could be of assistance and give help to the low immunity. So it is expected that holistic medical treatment could contribute to knowing the cause and treatment of leukemia, and give people reliability on oriental medical treatment, through the profound diagnosis of leukemia.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.253-259
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• 2001

1972년에 Kikuchi씨에 의해 최초로 보고된 아급성 괴사성 림프선염은 30세 전 연령에서 주로 발병하고 여자에서 다소 높게 발생하는 역학적 특성이 있는 질환으로서 발열, 발진, 림프구감소 등의 임상증상이 동반되어 감염성 병원체에 의한 질환일 가능성을 추정하나 원인은 확인되지 않았다. 한편 Kikuchi씨 질환은 임상적으로 불명열에 준하는 장기간의 발열과 림프선 종창을 보이는 소견 이외에 특징적인 증상과 증세가 없고 진단을 위한 면역혈청학적 특이검사가 없어 진단이 매우 어려워 조기에 감염 질환, 자가면역성 질환, 교원성 질환, 림프종양질환과의 감별이 용이하지 않아 이 질환이 의심될 경우 조기에 림프절 생검을 통한 조직병리 소견으로 진단하여 불필요한 검사와 치료를 방지하는 것이 중요하다. 저자들은 기침, 객담, 경부 림프절 종창이 있으면서 발열이 30일 동안이나 지속되어 불명열 환자로 오인되었던 14세 된 남아에서 생검한 경부 림프절 조직에서 전형적인 아급성 괴사성 림프절염 소견을 확인하고, 동시에 동소 교잡법으로 EBV 잠복감염을 확인한 1례를 경험하였기에 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.