• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.421-427
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• 1991

Atrial fibrillation[Af] is closely related to thrombus in left atrium, systemic embolism, and loss of the contribution of atrial contraction to cardiac output. Therefore maintenance of sinus rhythm[SR] is undoubtedly hemodynamically superior to Af in the clinical course of mitral valvular disease especially in the unstable period immediately after surgery. In this article, the conversion rate and the factors influencing the conversion of Af to SR after surgery were studied. Ninety-three patients with mitral valvular replacement at Chungnam National University Hospital were analysed with electrocardiography before and after surgery during the period from June 1985 to June 1990. Eighty patients presented Af before surgery. Twenty-four[30Yo] of the patients were converted to SR[A group] and fifty six presented continuous Af after surgery[B group]. The duration of preoperative Af, preoperative left atrial dimension[LAD], preoperative functional status[NYHA classification] and cardiothoracic[CT] ratio were factors influencing the conversion of Af to SR after surgery. The mean preoperative duration of Af was 3.5$\pm$2.6yr in group A and 7.6$\pm$4.9yr in group B. The mean preoperative LAD was 53. 7$\pm$9.4mm in group A and 62.5$\pm$11.2mm in group B. Before surgery, eleven patients[46%] were belong to NYHA class I, II in group A and eight[14%] in group B. The preoperative CT ratio was 62$\pm$6% in group A and 69$\pm$8% in group B.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.249-254
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• 1993

Atrial fibrillation is commonly associated with organic mitral valve disease including rheumatic valvular heart diasease or mitral valve prolapse and so forth. Although spontaneous sinus reversion may occur in some patients after mitral valve operation, recurrence of atrial fibrillation is the rule in most of these patients. We have tried to maintain sinus rhythm after mital valve operation with oral quinidine therapy, and we will show the efficacy of this therapy in this report. From January 1986 to August 1992, 60 patients of mitral valvular heart disease, who had had atrial fibrillation preoperatively and gained sinus rhythm postoperatively, were selected for this study. These patients were divided into 2 groups: Control group [n=30] and Quinidine trial group [n=30]. The age,sex, duration of symptoms,left atrial size and other risk factors of the reversion to atrial fibrillation were adjusted to be similar between the two groups. The maintenance rate of sinus rhythm was calculated by Kaplan-Meier method, and the rate was significantly higher in quinidine trial group than in control group [ p=0.0001 ]. Univariate analysis was performed on the risk factors of reversion to atrial fibrillation, and the difference of maintenance rate between the two groups were corrected with this result: the difference was still statistically significant [ p=0.0205 ]. The quinidine levels were measured in postoperative days, and there were no difference of serum quinidine level between the quinidine success group and quinidine failure group. In conslusion, oral quinidine therapy was effective for the maintenance of sinus rhythm after mitral valve operation compared to control group, and there was no correlation between the serum quinidine level and clinical efficacy of quinidine therpy.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.164-168
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• 1988

Between November, 1984, and May, 1986, 93 patients underwent combined valvular and coronary artery operation. They were 70 male and 23 female, the age ranging from 29 to 82. From this population 89 patients underwent single valve replacement and 4 patients underwent double valve replacement. Patients with mitral valve disease were in the majority present in the age group between 50 till 70, where as in the group after 60 years, patients with aortic valve disease were dominant. The main indication for aortic valve replacement was aortic stenosis and the indication for mitral valve replacement was equal between mitral stenosis and mitral incompetence, the later was due to papillary dysfunction after myocardial infarction. Dyspnea was a very frequent symptom and it was found in nearly all patients. 28 patients had a previous myocardial infarction and severe left ventricular dysfunction. The grafts were placed prior to valve replacement and periods of myocardial ischemia were kept at a minimum by maintaining coronary perfusion throughout the operation. It is our opinion that simultaneous valve replacement and myocardial revascularization does not increase the risk of cardiac valve replacement substantially.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.1082-1087
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• 2005

About the case of the cerebral infarction patient who has diagnosed Mitral Regurgitation in valvular heart disease and admissed to our hospital from 26. April. 2004 to 14. May. 2004, we diagnosed and treated him as heart disease due to wind, damp-heat at the point of Oriental Medicine and got the improvement in the chest pain, dyspnea and etc. so we report. We think that the patient must get the screen test exactly and treat the disease properly. and if we apply this result to clinical cases at the point of Oriental Medical base from gathering and researching more cases, it will arouse sympathy-the excellence of Oriental Medicine and make the necessity of the further research and report from now on.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.394-404
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• 1980

During the period of June 1976 October 1980 131 cases of Open heart Surgery was performed at the National Medical Center in Seoul under the extracorpocal circulation. 77 cases were congenital heart disease and 54 were acquired heart disease. The age of the patients ranged between 2$\frac{1}{2}$ and 51 years. For all patients partial hemodilution technique and moderte hypothermia was used during extracorporeal circulation and cardioplegia was done for myocardial protection since April 1978. 41 of congenital cases were non-cyanotic group and 1 case died. 36 of congenital cases were cyanotic group and revealed very high mortiality rate (16 death, 39%). 53 of acquired cases were cases of valvular heart disease, 34 mitral (3 death), 1 aortic, 4 mitral with aortic 12 mitral with tricuspid (3 death), 2 triple valves (2 death), and revealed mortality rate of 15.1% (8 death). 1 of acquired cases were left atrial myxoma. There were 25 cases of operative death and over all motality rate was 19.1%.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.1230-1233
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• 1998

The Cox-Maze procedure was developed as a cure for atrial fibrillation. The recovery rate of both atrial contractility is reported low in the atrial fibrillation associated with mitral valvular heart disease than that of loan atrial fibrillation. We performed the Cox-Maze procedure (Maze III) in three cases who suffered from non-mitral heart diseases associated with atrial fibrillation: A ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm, a ventricular septal defect, and an aortic stenoinsufficiency. The Cox-Maze procedure was performed concomitantly with correction of the underlying heart disease. Conversion to sinus rhythm was achieved in all three patients, and both right and left atrial mechanical activities could be identified echocardiographically after three postoperative months.

• Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.51-61
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• 2023

BACKGROUND: Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a common cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide; however, its epidemiological profile in Korea requires elucidation. METHODS: In this nationwide retrospective cohort study from the Korean valve survey, which collected clinical and echocardiographic data on VHD from 45 medical centers, we identified 4,089 patients with VHD between September and October 2019. RESULTS: The aortic valve was the most commonly affected valve (n = 1,956 [47.8%]), followed by the mitral valve (n = 1,598 [39.1%]) and tricuspid valve (n = 1,172 [28.6%]). There were 1,188 cases of aortic stenosis (AS) and 926 cases of aortic regurgitation. The most common etiology of AS was degenerative disease (78.9%). The proportion of AS increased with age and accounted for the largest proportion of VHD in patients aged 80-89 years. There were 1,384 cases of mitral regurgitation (MR) and 244 cases of mitral stenosis (MS). The most common etiologies for primary and secondary MR were degenerative disease (44.3%) and non-ischemic heart disease (63.0%), respectively, whereas rheumatic disease (74.6%) was the predominant cause of MS. There were 1,172 tricuspid regurgitation (TR) cases, of which 46.9% were isolated and 53.1% were associated with other valvular diseases, most commonly with MR. The most common type of TR was secondary (90.2%), while primary accounted for 6.1%. CONCLUSIONS: This report demonstrates the current epidemiological status of VHD in Korea. The results of this study can be used as fundamental data for developing Korean guidelines for VHD.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.289-294
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• 1983

The report is concerned to our experience of 12 cases of open heart surgery under the extracorporeal circulation at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chosun University Hospital during the period between Nov, 1979 and April, 1983. 1. There were 4 cases of congenital anomaly and 8 cases of acquired heart disease. 2. There were 6 male and 6 female patients with a mean age of 20 years. [range 9 to 33 years]. 3. The cases induced 2 ventricular septal defect, 2 atrial septal defects and 8 acquired valvular heart diseases. 4. The surgical managements were 2 primary repair for atrial septal defect and 2 patch closure for ventricular septal defect, 1 triple valve replacement [AVR MVR TVR], 1 aortic valve replacement, 4 double valve replacement [AVR MVR] and 2 open mitral commissurotomy for pure mitral stenosis. 5. The average cardiopulmonary bypass time was 61.5 minutes for congenital heart disease and 201.4 minutes for acquired valvular heart disease and the average aortic cross clamping time was 36.75 minutes for the former and 165.6 minutes for the latter. 6. Postoperatively, there were 1 Alopecia, 1 Electric burn and 1 wound infection as complication. 7. Overall operative mortality was 8.3%. 7. All patients received valve replacement were recommended anticoagulation with persantin.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.948-951
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• 2001

본 43세 여환은 심장판막질환으로 진단 받은 후 별다른 치료 없이 지내던 중 내원 전 심해진 호흡곤란으로 입원 치료중 신경학적 이상이 발생되어 중복판막협착 및 폐쇄부전증, 뇌동맥 색전증의 진단 하에 수술 시행하였다. 수술시 좌심실 배부와 승모판막륜 주변에 유두상의 조직들이 다수 발견되었다. 술후 신경학적 이상은 더 이상 보이지 않았고 병리조직학적 검사상 류마치스성 판막소엽에 동반된 유두상 섬유탄력종이 진단되었다. 환자는 수술 후에 잘 회복하였으며, 현재 외래에서 추적 관찰중이다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.484-489
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• 2003

목 적 : PA/IVS의 형태학적 및 혈역학적 다양성을 이해하고 최적의 치료방침을 결정하기 위하여 PA/IVS 신생아 환아들에서 심초음파기를 이용하여 우심실의 용적 및 유입부, 유출부의 크기를 측정하여 정상 신생아와 비교해 보았다. 방 법 : 2001년 1월부터 12월까지 청색증 및 심잡음으로 경북대학교병원 신생아실로 전원된 신생아 중 심초음파 검사로 PA/IVS로 진단받은 환아 8명을 대상으로 하였다. 심초음파 검사 당시의 대상환아의 나이는 평균 6.9일(생후 1-34일), 체중은 3,343 gm(2,970-4,000 gm)이고, 이중 남아가 5례, 여아는 3례였다. 대조군으로는 만삭아이면서 심질환이 없이 패혈증 의증이나 황달로 신생아실에 입원한 환아 10명을 대상으로 하였다. 심초음파 검사는 Acuson사의 Aspen 기기(7 Mh 탐촉자 장착)로 시행하여 super-VHS 비디오테이프에 녹화하였고, 기기안에 내장된 프로그램을 이용하여 우심실과 좌심실 용적, 대동맥판, 폐동맥판, 승모판, 삼첨판륜의 직경을 측정하고 대조군과 비교하였다. 결 과 : PA/IVS 환아들의 삼첨판륜의 Z-value는 $-3.69{\pm}2.80$(-8.4--0.45), 삼첨판륜/승모판륜의 직경의 비는 $0.69{\pm}0.15$(0.43-0.84)로 측정되었다. 삼첨판/승모판륜의 직경의 비와 삼첨판 Zvalue의 관계에서는 삼첨판/승모판륜의 크기의 비가 클수록 삼첨판륜의 Z-value가 컸다(r=0.885, P=0.003). 또한 판막성형술만 시행한 환아들 에서는 다른 치료를 시행한 환아들에 비해 우심실 용적과 삼첨판, 폐동맥판의 Z-value가 높았고, 삼첨판륜/승모판륜 직경의 비가 높았으나 통계학적 유의성은 없었다. 결 론 : PA/IVS 환아의 심초음파 평가에서 우심실 용적을 계측하는 것보다 삼첨판의 Z-value 및 삼첨판륜/승모판륜 직경의 비를 구하는 것이 계측방법도 간편하고, 환아의 치료방침 및 예후를 판정하는데 더 좋은 지표로 생각된다.