• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.590-598
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• 2023

Objective: To investigate whether the levels of inflammation detected by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) can predict disease relapse in immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) patients receiving standard induction steroid therapy. Materials and Methods: This prospective study analyzed pretherapy FDG PET/CT images from 48 patients (mean age, 63 ± 12.9 years; 45 males and 3 females) diagnosed with IgG4-RD between September 2008 and February 2018, who subsequently received standard induction steroid therapy as the first-line treatment. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were used to identify the potential prognostic factors associated with relapse-free survival (RFS). Results: The median follow-up time for the entire cohort was 1913 days (interquartile range [IQR], 803-2929 days). Relapse occurred in 81.3% (39/48) patients during the follow-up period. The median time to relapse was 210 days (IQR, 140-308 days) after completion of standardized induction steroid therapy. Among the 17 parameters analyzed, Cox proportional hazard analysis identified whole-body total lesion glycolysis (WTLG) > 600 on FDG-PET as an independent risk factor for disease relapse (median RFS, 175 vs. 308 days; adjusted hazard ratio, 2.196 [95% confidence interval: 1.080-4.374]; P = 0.030). Conclusion: WTLG on pretherapy FDG PET/CT was the only significant factor associated with RFS in IgG-RD patients receiving standard steroid induction therapy.

• 한국간담췌외과학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2024

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most diagnosed cancer worldwide. Healthcare resource constraints may predispose treatment delays. We aim to review existing literature on whether delayed treatment results in worse outcomes in HCC. PubMed, Embase, The Cochrane Library, and Scopus were systematically searched from inception till December 2022. Primary outcomes were overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). Secondary outcomes included post-treatment mortality, readmission rates, and complications. Fourteen studies with a total of 135,389 patients (delayed n = 25,516, no delay n = 109,873) were included. Age, incidence of male patients, Child-Pugh B cirrhosis, and Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer Stage 0/A HCC were comparable between delayed and no delay groups. Tumor size was significantly smaller in delayed versus no delay group (mean difference, -0.70 cm; 95% confidence interval [CI]: -1.14, 0.26; p = 0.002). More patients received radiofrequency ablation in delayed versus no delay group (OR, 1.22; 95% CI: 1.16, 1.27; p < 0.0001). OS was comparable between delayed and no delay in HCC treatment (hazard ratio [HR], 1.13; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.29; p = 0.07). Comparable DFS between delayed and no delay groups (HR, 0.99; 95% CI: 0.75, 1.30; p = 0.95) was observed. Subgroup analysis of studies that defined treatment delay as > 90 days showed comparable OS in the delayed group (HR, 1.04; 95% CI: 0.93, 1.16; p = 0.51). OS and DFS for delayed treatment were non-inferior compared to no delay, but might be due to better tumor biology/smaller tumor size in the delayed group.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.72-83
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• 2016

Purpose: The goal of this study was to evaluate the long-term success of horizontal alveolar crest augmentation of the retromolar region of the mandible with particulated bone, as well as factors affecting subsequent peri-implant bone loss. Methods: A total of 109 patients (68 female, 41 male) suffering from alveolar ridge deficiencies of the maxilla and mandible were included in this study. All patients were treated with particulated retromolar bone grafts from the mandible prior to the insertion of endosseous dental implants. Mesial and distal peri-implant crestal bone changes were assessed at six time points. Several parameters, including implant survival and the influence of age, gender, localisation of the implant, diameter, covering procedures, and time points of implant placement, were analysed to identify associations with bone level changes using the Mann-Whitney U-test, the Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient. Results: A total of 164 dental implants were placed in the maxilla (n=97) and in the mandible (n=67). The mean observation period was $105.26{\pm}21.58$ months after implantation. The overall survival rate was 97.6% after 10 years. Overall, peri-implant bone loss was highest during the first year, but decreased over time. The mean amount of bone loss after 10 years was 2.47 mm mesially and 2.50 mm distally. Bone loss was significantly influenced by implant type and primary stability. Conclusions: The use of particulated autologous retromolar bone grafts is a reliable technique for the horizontal reconstruction of local alveolar ridge deficiencies. Our results demonstrate that implants placed in augmented bone demonstrated similar bone level changes compared to implants inserted in non-augmented regions.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 1983

본 연구에서는 제품의 수명시험을 수행하는데 있어서 수명이 지수분포를 따를 때의 결과를 [1]제품의 MTBF가 $T_1$인 경우, 검사에 통과될 확률 $1-{\alpha}$(${\alpha}$는 생산자 위험), 제품의 MTBF가 $T_2$인 ($T_1$ > $T_2$) 경우, 검사에 통과될 확률 ${\beta}$(${\beta}$는 소비자 위험)로 하여 수명이 Weibull 분포(Shape Parameter를 알고 있을 때)를 따를 때에로 확장하였다. 또한, 수명시험과 관계있는 검사특성곡선(QC curve)과 평균수명시험시간(Average Life Testing Time)을 구해 보았다. 비용분석은 [1]의 과정을 그대로 활용하였다. 위의 전 과정은 Level II Basic Language로 Programming하여 Micro-Computer를 이용하여 계산하였다. 본 연구와는 다른 관점에서 Weibull 분포의 수명시험계획을 다루었던 [6]의 결과는 모두 같은 방향 - 지수분포에 비해 수명시험시간의 절감 - 으로 귀결되었음을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2013

Objective : Intracranial hemangiopericytomas (HPCs) are rare tumors with aggressive behavior, including local recurrence and distant metastasis. We conducted this retrospective study to evaluate the efficacy of grossly total resection and adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for these tumors. Methods : A total of 13 patients treated for intracranial HPC from January 1995 through May 2013 were included in this retrospective study. We analyzed the clinical presentations, radiologic appearances, treatment results, and follow-up outcomes, as well as reviewed other studies. Results : The ages of the patients at the time of diagnosis ranged from 26 to 73 years (mean : 48 years). The majority of the patients were male (92.3%), and the majority of the tumors were located in the parasagittal and falx. The ratio of intracranial HPCs to meningiomas was 13 : 598 in same period, or 2.2%. Seven patients (53.8%) had anaplastic HPCs. Nine patients (69.2%) underwent gross total tumor resection in the first operation without mortality. Eleven patients (84.6%) underwent postoperative adjuvant RT. Follow-up period ranged from 13 to 185 months (mean : 54.3 months). The local recurrence rate was 46.2% (6/13), and there were no distant metastases. The 10-year survival rate after initial surgery was 83.9%. The initial mean Karnofsky performance scale (KPS) was 70.8 and the final mean KPS was 64.6. Conclusion : Gross total tumor resection upon initial surgery is very important. We believe that adjuvant RT is helpful even with maximal tumor resection. Molecular biologic analyses and chemotherapy studies are required to achieve better outcomes in recurrent intracranial HPCs.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.403-413
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• 2012

The modifications suggested in Uhm et al. (2011) are studied using a partly parametric version of Aalen's additive risk model. A follow-up time period is partitioned into intervals, and hazard functions are estimated as a piecewise constant in each interval. A maximum likelihood estimator by iteratively reweighted least squares and variance estimates are suggested based on the model as well as evaluated by simulations using mean square error and a coverage probability, respectively. In conclusion the modifications are needed when there are a small number of uncensored deaths in an interval to estimate the piecewise constant hazard function.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.529-532
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• 2013

Cholangiocarcinoma, though very rare in Western countries, is one of the commonest liver malignancies in Southeast Asia, especially in Thailand. More than half of the patients present with advanced stage disease. Given the poor treatment outcomes of adjuvant therapeutic options, many patients undergo only biliary drainage for palliative treatment. Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes after biliary stenting were here analyzed for a total of 224 uresectable cholangiocarcinoma cases, 58.9% in men. The mean age was 61.5 years. Hilar involvement was the most common location. The patients underwent biliary drainage using plastic and metallic stents equally, early stent occlusion being encountered in 21.4% and 10.7%, respectively. The median survival time was 4.93 months for patients who received plastic and 5.87 months for patients who received metallic stents.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.936-943
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• 1989

We underwent 21 cases of orthotopic heart transplantation in the mongrel dogs from May, 1988, to April, 1989. The preoperative hematologic and hemodynamic results were similar to those of the previous reports except glucose and albumin. The exposure of operative field was excellent under the median sternotomy. All the cases died within 48 hours and the mean survival time excluding 4 operative deaths was 11.23*9.36 hours [\ulcorner.D., range 0.3-35.5 hours] We speculated the main cause of death was low cardiac output due to the myocardial failure. At autopsy, there was feature of intramyocardial hemorrhage and coagulation necrosis suggesting poor myocardial protection. Now our team is ready to do heart transplantation in man but we need more precise experiences, especially on the immunosuppression and myocardial protection. Recently we continue further experiments with improving results.

• 약학회지
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2004

ClpP is a stress-inducible protein and proteolytic subunit of the ATP-dependent Clp protease in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Although its physiological roles in bacterial virulence were widely studied in various organsims, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, until now the immunological effect has not been investigated. Here, we have examined the cross reactivity of S. pneumoniae ClpP antibody with other organisms's cell lysate proteins. Although the protein sequence of S. pneumoniae ClpP was highly conserved among various organisms including human, the antibody rasised by S. pneumoniae ClpP was not cross-reacted with other organism's cell lysates, which were Saccharomyces cerevisiae , human lung A549 cell, Bacillus subtilis, Pseuomonas aeruginosa, E. coli, and Salmonella typhi. It was only reacted with S. pneumoniae and Lato-bacillus thermophilus. Thus we examined the immunoprotective effect of ClpP by immunizing mice with the purified ClpP. The mean survival time of mouse was significantly increased with the ClpP immunization. These results suggest that S. pneumoniae ClpP could be used as a vaccine candidate for prevention of S. pneumoniae infection.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.30-38
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• 1998

배경: 간암은 우리나라에 흔한 암으로 암등록 자료($1991{\sim}1992$)에 의하면 암발생율 3위, 암에 의한 사망 원인 중 2위를 차지한다. 암환자에서 환자의 생존기간을 예측하는 것은 환자의 진료에서 환자 자신이나 가족, 의료진에게 매우 중요하다고 생각된다. 본 연구는 간암 환자에서 환자의 생존 기간을 예측할 수 있는 예후 인자를 찾아 간암 환자의 진료에 도움이 되고자 하였다. 방법: 1995년 1월부터 6월 사이에 연세대학교 의과대학 부속 영동세브란스 병원에 간암으로 입원한 환자 91명(남자 73명, 여자 18명)을 대상으로 의무기록을 통해 입원 당시 임상적인 특성 28가지를 조사하였으며, 의무기록과 동사무소 기록을 가지고 1996년 7월 31일까지 추적하여 생존 여부를 확인하였다. Cox proportional hazard model을 이용하여 임상적 특성 중 사망위험도를 높이는 유의한 변수를 얻은 후 이를 예후 인자로 삼았다. 이것을 life regression analysis을 통해 예후 인자 각각이 존재할 때의 생존 기간 및 동반된 예후 인자 갯수에 따른 생존 기간을 예측하였다. 결과: 1) 원발성 간암 91명 중 남자가 73명(80.2%), 여자가 18명(19.8%)이며, 평균 연령은 $56.7{\pm}10.6$세이었고, 추적 불가능한 사람 16명을 제외한 75%명중 그 기간 사이에 사망한 사람이 57명(76%), 생존한 사람이 18명(24%)이었다. 2) 임상적인 특성 중 프로트롬빈 시간(prothrombin time) 40% 미만(RR: relative risk. 10.8), 체중감소(RR. 4.4), 고혈압의 과거력(RR. 3.2), 복수(RR. 2.8), 저칼슘혈증(RR. 2.5)인 경우가 환자의 사망위험도의 유의한 예후 인자였다(P<0.01). 3) 사망위험도 예후 인자 5가지가 모두 있는 경우는 생존 기간이 1.7일, 4가지만 있는 경우는 $4.2{\sim}10.0$일, 3가지만 있는 경우는 $10.4{\sim}41.9$일, 2가지만 있는 경우는 $29.5{\sim}118.1$일, 1가지만 있는 경우는 $124.0{\sim}296.6$일, 모두 없는 경우는 724.0일이었다. 결론: 간암 환자에서 프로트롬빈 시간의 연장(<40%), 체중감소 고혈압의 과거력, 복수, 저칼슘혈증(<8.7mg/dl) 등의 순으로 높은 사망위험도를 예측하게 하는 유의한 인자임을 알 수 있었고, 동반된 예후인자의 갯수로써 생존 기간을 예측할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.