• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.791-798
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• 1990

Takayasu’s disease produces the occlusive and aneurysmal lesions of major branches of the aorta. Angiography is the most important diagnostic procedure in Takayasu’s disease. Surgical treatment is often justified to avoid the possible lethal consequences of hypertension on the heart, kidney, and brain, as well as in the case of aneurysm because of its risk of rupture. We experienced one case of the Takayasu’s disease associated with abdominal coarctation and renovascular hypertension. The patient was 17 years old female and had suffered from hypertension for 14 months. On physical examination, BP was 150/100 mmHg in the right arm and 120/80 mmHg in the left arm. The pulses of the left brachial and femoral arteries were weakly palpable. Aortogram showed the stenosis of the left common and subclavian arteries, coarctation of the abdominal aorta, and stenosis of the right renal artery and complete occlusion of the left renal artery. The stenosis of the right renal artery and the occlusion of the left renal artery produced the renovascular hypertension. She underwent aorta-aortic bypass for the coarctation of the abdominal aorta and aorta-renal bypass for treatment of renovascular hypertension Postoperatively, both femoral pulses were equally palpable. On discharge, antihypertensive drugs were discontinued. She has remained normotensive for last one year.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.11b
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• pp.511-513
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• 1998

This paper describes a full color stereoscopic video display system using a LCD shutter. Human apprehends the world with a natural stereo vision. The left eye sees through a slightly different perspective from the right eye; proposed vision system combines two images into a single image that has stereo depth. That is, when the left image is on the screen, the left shutter opens and the right shutter closes - and vice versa. The LCD shutter channels the left image to the left eye, and the right image to the right eye. The brain then fuses the stereo pair into a single high-resolution, flicker-free 3D image. The designed vision system is a real-time system that shows stereoscopic images without the loss of image information from video cameras.

• The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.111-118
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• 2010

Objective : The study was performed to evaluate the effect of Kinesio taping on pain of Left hip joint. Methods : A 35-year-old, female patient who suffers from pain of left hip joint by brain tumor was treated by Kinesio taping therapy. The improvement of the patient's pain of left hip joint was evaluated by Visual Analog Scale(VAS), Faces Pain Rating Scale, McGill Pain Questionnaire(MPQ), and Pain Rating Score(PRS). Result : During the 9 days with Kinesio taping, VAS and Pain Rating Scale were decreased slightly. But Faces Pain Rating Scale and McGill Pain Questionnaire showed no change. Conclusions : The result suggests that Kinesio Taping was effective treatment to pain but not intensive. Further study is needed to evaluate the significancy of this report.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.162-168
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• 1990

Unroofed coronary sinus syndrome is an uncommon anomaly which is caused by incomplete formation of the left atriovenous fold and it is usually associated with persistent left superior vena cava. It may be diagnosed by cardiac catheterization and cineangiography but, if it is not diagnosed, it can bring out significant complications due to right to left shunt, such as brain abscess, cerebral embolism, transient ischemic attack, arterial desaturation and there will reduced patient`s life expectancy. Therefore corrective operation was needed. A case of unroofed coronary sinus syndrome which combines with valvular heart disease was experienced at the department of thoracic & cardiovascular surgery of Kosin medical college. The patient was 49 years old female and she complained dyspnea on exertion for 2 yrs. Cardiac catheterization with cineangiography and both superior venacavogram were performed for diagnosis and she was diagnosed as unroofed coronary sinus syndrome combined with mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Surgical correction was accomplished by reroofing of coronary sinus with pericardial patch, closure of atrial septal defect and annuloplasty of both atrioventricular valves. Postoperative results were satisfactory and course of recovery was uneventful. We report a case of unroofed coronary sinus syndrome with review.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.367-369
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• 2012

Terson syndrome was originally used to describe a vitreous hemorrhage arising from aneurysmal subrarachnoid hemorrhage. Terson syndrome can be caused by intracranial hemorrhage, subdural or epidural hematoma and severe brain injury but is extremely rare in intraventricular hemorrhage associated with moyamoya disease. A 41-year-old man presented with left visual disturbance. He had a history of intraventicular hemorrhage associated with moyamoya disease three months prior to admission. At that time he was in comatose mentality. Ophthalmologic examination at our hospital detected a vitreous hemorrhage in his left eye, with right eye remaining normal. Vitrectomy with epiretinal membrane removal was performed. After operation his left visual acuity was recovered. Careful ophthalmologic examination is mandatory in patients with hemorrhagic moyamoya disease.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.129-131
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• 2007

Intracranial epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is extremely rare. We report a case of intracranial epithelioid hemangioendothelioma which developed in a 55-year-old man who presented with dysarthria for two weeks. The brain computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance image showed masses which had fat component at the left frontal convexity and at left posterior parietal area. Excisional biopsy at the left frontal convexity confirmed epithelioid hemangioendothelioma which is immunopositive for CD31, supporting endothelial differentiation, and negative for CD68, SMA and HMB-45.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.170-177
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• 1999

PEG-hemoglobin SB1 (SB1), which is a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier, is intended to use as a safe blood substitute against brain ischemia and stroke. The general pharmacological profiles of SB1 were studied. The doses given were 0, 5, 10, 20 ml/kg and drugs were administered intravenously. The animals used for this study were mouse, rat and guinea pig. SB1 showed no effects on general behavior, motor coordination, spontaneous locomotor activity, hexobarbital sleeping time, anticonvulsant activity, analgesic activity, blood pressure and heart rate, left ventricular peak systolic pressure, left ventricular end diastolic pressure, left ventricular developing pressure, double product, heart rate, coronary flow rate, smooth muscle contraction using guinea pig ileum, gastrointestinal transport, gastric secretion, urinary volume and electrolyte excretion at all doses tested except the decrease of body temperature. These findings demonstrated that SB1 possesses no general pharmacological effects at all doses tested.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.297-304
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• 1989

A 45-year old woman with congestive heart failure due to left atrial tumor was operated on. Three tumor masses arising from posterior wall, atrial septum, anterior portion of mitral valve were resected. Pathological diagnosis was malignant fibrous histiocytoma [MFH]. Above one case and sixteen previous reports are reviewed. Eleven cases out of 17 were females. The tumors all originated primarily in the left atrium and 8 had distant metastases. The metastatic sites are lung [4 cases], brain [2 cases], liver, jejunum, cervix and pleura etc. Careful pathologic study is necessary to differentiate the uniformly fatal MFH of the heart from the more common benign atrial myxoma. The treatment modalities are surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy & the prognosis of intracardiac MFH is poor. We underwent partial resection of left atrial MFH and obtained symptom relief and patient still alive 7 months post-operatively in state of NYHA class II.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.408-413
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• 1988

Sleeve resection is safe, effective, and appropriate treatment for a wide range of endo-bronchial lesions including neoplasms of low grade malignant potential and selected cases of bronchogenic carcinoma. Five cases of bronchoplastic procedures were performed for primary bronchogenic carcinoma patients at Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonbuk National University Hospital from Aug. 1983 to Oct. 1987. Of the 5 patients, four were male and one patient was female and ages ranged from 51 years to 66 years old. Histopathologically, 4 cases were squamous cell carcinoma and one case small cell carcinoma. Operative procedures of the 5 patients were as follows: Right upper sleeve lobectomy, 1 case; Left upper sleeve lobectomy, 1 case; left lower sleeve lobectomy, 1 case; Left lower lobe and lingular segment sleeve resection, 2 cases. The early and late postoperative complications of the above operations were pneumonia, atelectasis, bronchopleural fistula, empyema, brain metastasis, and local recurrence of primary tumor.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.61-64
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• 2005

We report a 18-year-old man, who has been taking antihypertensive medication for 1month in a local clinic, presented with a sudden onset headache followed by left blindness. He experienced palpitation and chest discomfort during physical exertion since 2years before admission, but unfortunately has been ignored. Brain CT showed intracerebral hemorrhage in the left temporoparietal area, but cerebral angiogram and magnetic resonance image revealed no vascular anomaly. He was managed conservatively, and headache and visual loss were improved over time. Subsequently, on the evaluation of hypertension, he was diagnosed as having extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma on left paraaortic area from the results of endocrinological evaluations, abdominal CT scan, and $^{131}I$-MIBG scintigraphy.