• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1017-1022
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• 1999

Background: An increasing number of elderly are referred for open heart surgeries(OHS). These patients are assumed to have significantly increased morbidity and mortality because of compromised functional reserves in their vital organs. We reviewed the results of OHS patients who were 70 years old or older. Material and Method: Thirty six consecutive septuagenarians underwent OHS from 1995 to 1997. Operations were coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) in 26 including 3 left main surgical angioplasty, valve replacement in 7, MVR+CABG in 2, and ASD closure+TAP in 1. Statistical tests were carried out to compare survivor group with nonsurvivor group in respect to risk factors including NYHA functional class, LVEF, emergent operation, IABP support, CPB/ACC time, ventilator time cardiac index, ICU stay and hospital stay for operative mortality. Result: Operative mortality rate and postoperative complication were 16%(6/36) and 50%(18/36). One-year and 3-year actuarial survival rates were 76%. Nine patients(25%) had major complications including third-degree A-V block(2), respiratory failure(1), stroke(3), renal failure requiring dialysis(3) and postoperative hemorrhage(2). The causes of death were pneumonia(1), bleeding(1), acute renal failure(1), low cardiac output(1), third-degree A-V block(1), and ventricular tachycardia(1). The univariate analysis of mortality shows that NYHA class IV, LVEF<40%, lesser values for C.I, and longer time for ventilatory support were associated with the risk factors(p value=0.03, 0.001, 0.007, and 0.014). The emergent operation, CPB/ACC time, IABP support, ICU stay and hospital stay were not significant. Conclusion: We conclude that cardiac operation can be performed in septuagenarians with acceptable outcomes when done in patients with normal to moderately depressed left ventricular function and adequate functional reserves in their vital organs.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.143-154
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• 2002

The effect of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) on cerebral physiology during heart surgery remains incompletely understood. This study was carried out to investigate changes of cerebral metabolism and the association between the changes and clinical factors during heart surgery. Seventy adult patients (n=70) scheduled for elective cardiac surgery were participated in the present study. Middle cerebral artery blood flow velocity (V$_{MCA}$), cerebral arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C(a-v)O$_2$), cerebral oxygen extraction (COE), and modified cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen (MCMRO$_2$) were measured during six phases of the operation; Pre-CPB, CPB-10 min, Rewarm-1 (nasopharyngeal temperature 34$^{\circ}C$), Rewarm-2 (nasopharyngeal temperature 37$^{\circ}C$), CPB-off, and Post-OP (at skin closure after CPB-off). Each relationship of age, arterial blood gas parameters, or other variables to V$_{MCA}2$, C(a-v)O$_2$, COE, or MCMRO$_2$ was evaluated. V$_{MCA}$ increased (P<0.0001) whereas C(a-v)O$_2$ decreased (P<0.01) throughout the five phases of the operation compared to Pre-CPB value (control). COE diminished at CPB-10, Rewarm-1, and CPB-off (P<0.05) while MCMRO$_2$ reduced at CPB-10 and Rewarm-1 (P<0.05) compared to Pre-CPB value. Positive correlation was found between age and cerebral metabolic parameters (V$_{MCA}$, C(a-v)O$_2$, COE, or MCMRO$_2$) during CPB (range r=0.24 to 0.38, p<0.05). Four cerebral metabolic parameters had partially negative or positive correlation with arterial blood gas parameters and other variables (arterial blood pH, $O_2$ tension, $O_2$ content, $CO_2$ tension, blood pressure, blood flow, temperature, or hematocrit) during the operation. In conclusion, CPB led to marked alterations of cerebral metabolism and age, pH, and $CO_2$ tension profoundly influenced the changes during cardiac surgery.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제37권10호
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• pp.856-860
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• 2004

심내기형을 동반한 대동맥궁 단절은 매우 중한 자연경과를 갖고 있는 희귀한 선천성 심장 기형이다. 식도 폐쇄증과 기관 식도루를 동반한 심첨부 근육성 심실 중격 결손과 대동맥궁 단절을 생후 3일된 체중 2.6 kg의 신생아에서 단계적 수술법으로 치료한 경험을 보고한다. 1차 수술로서 우측 개흉술을 통한 식도 폐쇄증의 교정과 함께 좌측 개흉술에 의한 대동맥궁 광범위 단-단 문합술 및 폐동맥 교약술을 시행하였다. 1차 수술 후 87일째 정중 흉골 절개를 통해 심첨부 근육성 심실 중격 결손을 폐쇄하였다. 심실 중격 결손 폐쇄 전 유문부 근육절개술, 대동맥 전방고정술, 대동맥 풍선확장술 등의 추가 시술이 필요하였다. 최종 수술 후 3개월째 양호한 추적 결과를 경험하였기에 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.46-51
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• 1998

식도 천공후 수술시까지 24시간이상이 경과된 환자의 치료법은 아직도 논란이 많다. 1990년이후 연세 대학교 흉부외과학 교실에서는 식도 천공후 24시간이상 경과된 환자 10예중 전예를 일차 봉합술로 치료 하였다. 그중 4명은 인위적인 천공 이었고, 3명은 자연성 천공, 2명은 이물의 연하, 나머지 한명은 외상이 원인 이었다. 식도 천공후 수술시까지 소요된 시간은 평균 116시간 이었고 중앙값은 48시간 이었다. 봉합방법은 천공된 점막부위의 위 아래로 정상 점막이 나올때까지 식도근 절개술을 시행한 후 염증이 있는 점막부위를 변연 절제한다. 식도의 원위부 폐쇄가 있을 경우 수술대에서 식도 확장술을 시행하고 점막과 근육층을 단층 혹은 층층 봉합한다. 봉합부위 위에 늑막이나 심낭 지방을 이용하여 봉합을 강화하였다. 수술 사망은 1예에서 수술후 33일째 발생 하였는데 사망원인은 위괘양의 합병증으로 위출혈이었다. 술후 5명의 환자에서 봉합부위의 유출이 있었지만 사망한 1예를 제외하고 모두 고식적 치료로 완치할 수 있었다. 식도 천공 환자에서 치료법은 여러 가지 방법이 있겠으나 비록 수술시까지 시간이 많이 지났다하더라도 천공의 원인이 양성이고 원위부 폐쇄가 교정될 수 있다면 일차 봉합과 적절한 배농이 우선 되어야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제40권10호
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• pp.696-700
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• 2007

심한 엡스타인 기형을 갖고 있는 한 신생아에서 Starnes 수술 후 중기 수술 결과를 보고한다. 환아는 출생 당일 청색증과 함께 심한 심비대로 입원하였다. 생후 19일째 심방화 우심실의 축소술과 함께 삼첨판 성형술을 시도하였으나 실패하였고 관상정맥동을 우심실 족에 두면서 삼첨판을 첩포로 폐쇄시키고 체폐동맥 단락술을 시행하였다. 생후 16개월에 양방성 상공정맥-폐동맥 문합술을 시행하였고 30개월에 심외도관 폰탄수술을 시행하였다. 현재 환아는 생후 56개월로 특별한 신체적 제한 없이 잘 지내고 있다. 최근 추적 심장검사에서 동율동 상태로 매우 작은 우심실과 함께 정상적 좌심기능을 보여주고 있고 우심실에 혈전 형성의 증거는 없었다.

• 대한기관식도과학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2005

Background : It is well-known that esophageal perforation (EP) is difficult in diagnosis and has high mortality rate despite proper management. There are disputes in regarding the reatment in cases of delayed diagnosis although in the early diagnosed cases, operation is recommended without arguments. Methods: From April, 2001 to December, 2004, nine patients who were diagnosed as EP in our hospital were analyzed retrospectively about the causes, the interval between the cause and the treatment, and operation methods. Results: There were 8 male and one female with men age of 49.3 years (range: 25-67 years). The causes of EP included perforations following operations of corvical spine in three cases, spontaneous perforation(Boehaave syndrome) in two cases, foreign bodies in two cases, operation of esophageal diverticulum in one case and blunt trauma bytraffic accident in one case. Mean interval between the first treatments and the causes was 11.6 days (range: 2-30 days). The sites of perforation were upper third of esophagus in three cases, middle third in three cases and lower third in three cases. All except two cervical cases presented as mediastinitis or empyema at the time of diagnosis. Primary repair and irrigation had been performed in 7 cases but five cases out of them required more than two procedures. Conclusions : More than one procedure wasrequired in the treatment of EP because of contaminations and infections which had been spread at the time of initial manifestatios, howeverprimary closure and massive irrigation is the best method in order to preserve esophagus unless the remaining esophagus is extensively damaged.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.22-31
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• 2009

최근 에너지 위기와 지구 온난화의 영향으로 국내에서 건물의 냉난방에 지열에너지를 비롯한 재생에너지의 사용이 증가하고 있다. 지열히트펌프시스템은 지금까지 지구상에서 가장 환경친화적인 냉난방 공조설비의 하나로 알려져 있다. 그러나 지열히트펌프시스템의 설치 및 운영이 토양 지하수환경에 미칠 수 있는 몇 가지 영향들에 대한 보고가 있다. 이들 영향으로는 주로 지열히트펌프시스템의 부적절한 설치, 운영 및 폐쇄와 관련된다. 본 논문에서는 지열히트 펌프시스템이 토양 지하수환경에 미칠 수 있는 영향에 관하여 고찰하였다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.593-606
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• 1984

With the ligation of patent ductus arteriosus by Gross in 1938, surgeons first entered the field of congenital heart disease. Interruption of a ductus is one of the most satisfactory and curative operations in the field of surgery for congenital heart disease. 27 cases of isolated patent ductus arteriosus were operated from Jan. 1978 to July 1984 at the Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery in Kyung-Hee University Hospital. Retrospective clinical analysis of these patients were: 1. Sex ratio, female: male, was 2:1. 2. Mean age at operation was 9.85\ulcorner.58 years. The youngest patient was a 23 month-old girl and the oldest one was a 24 year-old male. 3. More than half of the patients had less than 50 percentile of growth retardation. 4. Chief complaints of the patients were frequent URI [52%], dyspnea on exertion [33%], generalized weakness [22%], palpitation [7%], but 7 patients [26%] had no subjective symptoms. 5. Continuous machinery murmur could be heard at the 2nd or 3rd intercostal space on the left sternal border in 22 patients [81%]. The other S patients made systolic murmur with accentuation of the second heart sound and those were associated with pulmonary hypertension. 6. Radiologic findings of Chest P-A were cardiac enlargement in 15 patients [55%], enlargement of pulmonary conus and/or increasing density of pulmonary vascularity in 20 patients [74%]. 7. Electrocardiographic findings of the patients were within normal limit in 13 patients [48%], LVH in 4 patients [15%], biventricular hypertrophy in 3 patients [11%]. 8; echocardiogram was obtained from 11 patients. Ductus was directly visualized in 7 patients. Left atrial enlargement is the secondary change of left to right shunt, 10 patients had LA/Ao ratio more than 1.2. 9. Cardiac catheterization performed in 25 patients. The mean value of the results were:SO2[PA-RV]= 14.72\ulcorner6.01%, Qp/Qs=2.22\ulcorner.80, peak systolic pulmonary arterial pressure=48.28\ulcorner1.60 mmHg. 10. 26 patients were operated through the left posterolateral thoracotomy: closure of ductus by double ligation in 14 cases, triple ligation in 5 cases, and division with suture in 8 cases. One patient suffer from aneurysmal rupture of main pulmonary artery, endocarditis, hemopericardium was treated with cardiopulmonary bypass via median sternotomy and closure of ductus through the ruptured main pulmonary artery. 11.There was no death associated with the operation, but 3 cases were experienced with intraoperative rupture around the ductus resulting in massive bleeding. The other complications were transient hoarseness in one patient, atelectasis in left lower lobe in 3 patients, and postoperative systemic hypertension in 4 patients with unknown etiology. 12. Pulse pressure was reduced, 11.47+5.92 mmHg, postoperatively, as compare to preoperative status. 13. Intraoperative wedge lung biopsy from lingular segment for the evaluation of the pulmonary vascular disease was taken in S patients with severe pulmonary hypertension. The result was Heath-Edward grade I in one case, grade II in two cases, and grade III in two cases.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.194-202
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• 2007

저자들은 2000년 3월부터 2005년 9월까지, 건양대학교병원 외과에서 반대측에 대한 잔존 복막 초상돌기 개폐 여부를 복강경으로 확인한 환자 280명을 포함하여, 서혜부 탈장으로 고위 결찰술을 시행받은 만 15세 이하의 환자 601명을 대상으로 임상분석을 실시하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 환자의 성비는 3.8:1로 남아에서 호발하였고, 진단 당시의 발생부위는 오른쪽이 57.7%, 좌측이 32.1%, 양측이 10.1%였으며, 복강경으로 반대측 잔존 복막 초상돌기를 확인한 군의 결과도 유사하였다. 복강경으로 복막 초상돌기의 개방을 확인한 결과, 1세 이하에서는 25%, 1세에서 5세 이하에서는 29%, 5세 이상에서는 18%로, 복막 초상돌기의 자연 폐쇄를 확인 할 수 없었다. 편측 서혜부 탈장 수술 후 반대측 탈장이 생긴 경우는 14명(2.5%)이었으며, 복강경으로 반대측 잔존 복강 초상돌기의 개폐 유무의 확인이 가능했던 2003년 3월 이후에는 발견되지 않았다. 추적 기간 중 반대측 탈장이 생긴 경우, 1세 이하에서 증상이 나타난 경우와, 첫 증상이 왼쪽에서 생겼을 때가 통계적으로 유의하였으며 이는 일반적인 반대측 탈장 발생의 고위험군과 일치하는 결과이다.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.823-826
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• 2010

Purpose: Meningomyelocele is the most common type of neural tube defect disease. Early surgical treatment is recommended to prevent central nervous system infection. Several reconstruction methods were reported previously regarding surgical wound defect closure following meningomyelocele excision. In this article, we report two successful patients using the bilateral fasciocutaneous sliding V-Y advancement flap as a covering for meningomyelocele defects. Methods: Two patients with meningomyelocele were evaluated. Both patients were male and received their operations on the 1st and 4th day of life. After neurosurgeons completed their part of the operation, the V-Y advancement flap was used to close the defect. Initially a bilateral V-shape incision design was made on the skin such that the base of the V-flap measures identical to the size of the wound defect. An incision was made down to the fascia in order to allow the V-flaps to slide into the defect. Subfascial dissection was performed up to 1/3 to 1/4 the length of the V-flap from the wound while minimizing injury to the perforating vessels. Results: Both patients were treated successfully and there was no evidence of complication in 2 months follow up. Conclusion: Several reconstruction methods such as local flaps, skin graft and myocutaneous flaps were reported regarding meningomyelocele surgical wound defect closure. Bilateral fasciocutaneous sliding V-Y advancement flap is an easy method without involving the underlying muscles or a secondary skin graft in a short operation time. Therefore we recommend this treatment option for reconstruction of the wound defect following meningomyelocele excision.