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질병의 경과와 예후 판별에 대한 제언 (Proposal on the Process and Prognosis of Popular Diseases)

  • 권기록
    • 대한약침학회지
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.201-209
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    • 2008
  • Objectives : This study was designed to make beneficial proposal for clinical application on some of the most common disorders treated by Oriental medicine by analyzing treatment process and prognosis. Methods : Number of peculiar attributes pertaining to a specific disorder were analyzed and based on those attributes, patterns associated with process and prognosis were interpreted in reference with classical literatures. Results : 1. Factors which can influence the progression and prognosis include time of onset, intensity of symptoms, course of passage, effects of risk factors, condition of the patient's righteous qi(正氣), accuracy of differential diagnosis made by the practitioner, accuracy of treatment methods, and other unexpected external influences. 2. Correlation between the condition of disorders and treatment progression is closely associated with proper treatment procedures and performances. The time of onset and intensity play critical roles in the treatment process and prognosis and showed pattern tendency with mutual interactions. 3. When there is complication of various disorders, it is ideal to give priority to more urgent illness and take care of moderate illness later. If there isn't any correlation between disorders, treat them in the order of acute to chronic disorders. The approach is reversed when disorders are related, treating in the order of most chronic to most acute. 4. In a case of complication of various disorders, depending on the disorder being acute or chronic, intensity, and accuracy of treatments, either a domino effect or gradual fade out of symptoms were witnessed. 5. The concept of "Five Evils Theory" according to Nan Jing(Difficult Classic) is essential in grasping disease progression due to interrelationships between zangfu organs. Conclusions : Predicting of disease process and prognosis for vast array of disorders treated by Oriental medicine is a very difficult task, yet evaluating the disorder's peculiar properties and influential factors resulted in few principles which can be effectively applied into clinical applications.

한약제제 KOB03의 랫드에서의 4주 반복 경구투여에 의한 독성 연구 (Dose range finding study of KOB03, a new polyherbal medicine for the treatment of allergic rhinitis, by oral administration for four weeks in Sprague-Dawley rats)

  • 정진기;박용기
    • 대한본초학회지
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    • 제27권3호
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2012
  • Objectives : To evaluate the toxicity of KOB03, polyherbal medicine for the treatment of allergic rhinitis, we performed the dose-range finding test of KOB03 by oral supplementation for 4 weeks in Sprague-Dawley rats. Methods : The water extract of KOB03 consisting of five different herbs was supplied from GLP company. KOB03 was supplemented by gavage at 0, 500, 2,500 and 5,000 mg/kg/day for 4-week consecutive days. We recorded the clinical signs of toxicity, body weight, organ weights, hematology, gross and histological changes in target organs of rats, and clinical chemistry analysis. Results : KOB03 at all doses was shown no mortality or abnormal clinical signs in rats during at the observation period. Furthermore, there was no difference in body weight and food-take consumption, organ weight, gross pathological findings, and urine analysis among the groups of rats treated with different doses of KOB03. The hematological analysis and clinical blood chemistry data were revealed no toxic effects from KOB03-supplemented rats. Conclusions : The results suggest that KOB03 is a wide margin of safety on dose-range toxicity in rats. The no observable adverse effect level (NOAEL) of the test, KOB03 in rats is no less than 5,000 mg/kg/day.

Growth Performance and Meat Quality of Broiler Chicks Fed Germinated and Fermented Soybeans

  • Lee, Dan-Won;Shin, Jin-Ho;Park, Jung-Min;Song, Jae-Chul;Suh, Hyung-Joo;Chang, Un-Jae;An, Byoung-Ki;Kang, Chang-Won;Kim, Jin-Man
    • 한국축산식품학회지
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    • 제30권6호
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    • pp.938-945
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    • 2010
  • This study was conducted to investigate the dietary effects of germinated and fermented (with Monascus pupureus) soybean screenings (GFS) on growth performance and meat quality in broiler chicken. A total of 750 1-day-old Ross ${\times}$ Ross male broiler chicks were randomly allocated into five groups (five replications with 30 birds each) and fed experimental diets for 5 wks as follows: Group 1, negative-control (antibiotics-free diet); Group 2, positive-control (negative-control with 10 ppm of Avilamycin); Group 3, negative-control with 0.3% GFS; Group 4, negative-control with 0.5% GFS; Group 5, negative-control with 1% GFS. The final body weight of each group fed a diet containing 1% GFS was significantly higher than that of the negative-control group. The feed conversion ratios of all groups fed diets containing GFS and the positivecontrol group were significantly improved compared to the negative-control group during the whole period (p<0.05). The relative weights of various organs along with the activities of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT) and glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT) were not influenced by the dietary treatments. The levels of total serum cholesterol in groups fed diets containing 0.5% and 1% GFS were more significantly lowered compared to those of the control groups without GFS (p<0.05). There were no significant differences in the cecal microflora profiles among the groups. Further, the dietary treatments did not influence the physico-chemical properties of the edible meat, including the shear force, pH, meat color (CIE $L^*$, $a^*$ and $b^*$), and content of malondialdehyde (MDA). Cooking loss of breast muscle in the groups fed GFS was significantly lowered compared to that of the negative control group (p<0.05). These results indicate that dietary GFS could improve growth performance in broiler chicken and may affect meat quality in some instances.

우이(尤怡)의 의학사상(醫學思想)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) (A study on the medical thought of 'You-Yi(尤怡)')

  • 정성채;김기욱;박현국
    • 동국한의학연구소논문집
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.1-34
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    • 1997
  • 동양의학에서 "상한론(傷寒論)"의 발전은 대체로 삼단계(三段階)의 과정을 거쳤으나 "삼강정립(三綱鼎立)"설이 대세를 이루고 있었다. 이러한 관점에 대항하여 변증논치규율(辯證論治規律)을 연구한 학파(學派)가 나타나게 되었는데 우이(尤怡)가 그 중 한사람이다. 우이(尤怡)의 생애(生涯), 저서(著書), 학술사상(學術思想) 및 후세에 미친 영향 등을 조사하고 특히 "상한론(傷寒論)"을 안법류증(按法類?)하여 육경(六經)에 따른 정치법(正治法) 권변법(權變法) 알선법(斡旋法) 구역법(救逆法) 유병법(類病法) 명변법(明辨法) 잡치법(雜治法) 등의 치법(治法)에 대하여 연구하여 보고하는 바이다.

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명청시기(明淸時期) 소아추나(小兒推拿)에 관(關)한 문헌적(文獻的) 고찰(考察) (Bibliographic Study on Pediatric Chuna(推拿) in the Myung.Chung(明淸) Dynasties)

  • 정국훈;이송실;백진웅;이상재;김광호
    • 대한예방한의학회지
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 2004
  • Bibliographic study on pediatric Chuna in the Myung Chung dynasties resulted as the following. 1. Pediatric Chuna experts in Myung dynasty utilized methods of Chuna to a great extense as means of preventing and treating various kinds of pediatric disorders. 2. Pediatric Chuna experts in Myung dynasty put emphasis on diagnosis through the doctor's inspection. 3. Pediatric Chuna experts in Myung dynasty developed and applied special acupoints for pediatric Chuna. 4. Pediatric Chuna experts in Myung dynasty put emphasis on replenishing and discharging according to hand manipulation. 5. Pediatric Chuna experts in Myung dynasty developed and applied methods of massaging with herbal medicine. 6. Pediatric Chuna experts in Myung dynasty put methods of Chuna into songs for handier use. 7. Pediatric Chuna experts in Chung dynasty corrected the errors of the predecessors and further developed the handed down advantages. 8. Pediatric Chuna experts in Chung dynasty specifically combined the theories of Chuna with characteristics of pediatric physiology. 9. Pediatric Chuna experts in Chung dynasty described treatments by symptoms systematically. 10. Pediatric Chuna experts in Chung dynasty, criticizing the trend at the time of despising pediatric Chuna, endeavored to spread pediatric Chuna. 11. Pediatric Chuna experts in Chung dynasty arranged the relationship between hand manipulation of Chuna and herbal medicine. 12. Pediatric Chuna experts in Chung dynasty arranged various kinds of methods for diagnosis, including diagnosis by palpation of the chest and the abdomen. 13. Pediatric Chuna experts in Chung dynasty combined the method of multiple hand manipulation and method of basic hand manipulation. 14. The theories of pediatric Chuna before Myung Chung dynasties only put emphasis on Ki and Blood, not combining with the basic principles of Korean medicine like Eum/Yang and Five Phases. The scholars of Myung Chung dynasties came to successfully combine the principles of Korean medicine like stability theory, Jang and Bu (internal organs) theory, and Eum-Yang theory with the theories of pediatric Chuna. This combination best characterizes the theories of pediatric Chuna in the Myung Chung dynasties.

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두경부 토모테라피 치료 시 CT scan range에 따른 치료계획의 정확성 평가 (Accuracy evaluation of treatment plan according to CT scan range in Head and Neck Tomotherapy)

  • 권동열;김진만;채문기;박태양;서성국;김종식
    • 대한방사선치료학회지
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    • 제31권2호
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    • pp.13-24
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    • 2019
  • 목 적: 두경부 토모테라피 치료 시 다양한 이유로 CT scan range가 부족한 상황이 발생한다. CT scan range는 정확한 선량 계산에 영향을 주기 때문에 Re-CT Simulation이 좋지만 환자의 피폭선량 증가와 불편함, 치료일정 변경 등 문제점을 갖는다. 이에 본 저자는 기존 CT scan range에서 Plan setup parameter 변화를 통해 Re-CT Simulation 없이 정확한 치료계획에 필요한 최소한의 CT scan range를 평가해보고자 한다. 대상 및 방법: CT simulator(Discovery CT590 RT, GE, USA)와 In House Head & Neck Phantom을 이용하였고, Target의 끝단에서 0.25~3.0cm까지 0.25cm씩 증가시켜 CT scan range 별 이미지를 획득하였다. Target과 정상 장기를 Head & Neck Phantom에 등록하고 ACCURAY Precision® 이용하여 치료계획을 설계하였다. 처방 선량은 Daily 2.2Gy, 27 Fxs, Total Dose 59.4Gy, Target은 처방 선량의 95~107%, 정상 장기는 SMC Protocol에 맞춰 치료계획을 설계하였다. 동일한 치료계획 조건에서 Field Width(FW)와 Jaw 모드를 고려한 5가지 방법(Fixed-1cm, Fixed-2.5cm, Fixed-5cm, Dynamic-2.5cm Dynamic-5cm)과 2가지 Pitch(0.43, 0.287)의 Plan Setup parameter로 치료계획을 설계하였다. 각 치료계획에 대한 선량 전달의 정확성은 EBT3 film과 RIT(Complete Version 6.7, RIT, USA)를 이용하여 분석하였다. 결 과: Target의 처방 선량과 정상 장기의 견딤선량(Tolerance dose)을 만족한 치료계획(SMC Protocol)은 Fixed-1cm은 0.25cm 이상, Fixed-2.5cm는 0.75cm 이상, Dynamic-2.5cm는 1cm 이상, Fixed-5cm과 Dynamic-5cm인 경우는 1.75cm 이상의 Scan range가 있어야 정확한 치료계획을 할 수 있었다. 선량 전달의 정확성은 RIT로 분석한 결과 SMC Protocol을 만족한 치료계획에서 3% 미만의 오차였다. 결 론: 두경부 토모테라피 치료 시 CT scan range가 부족한 경우 Plan Setup Parameter 중 Field Width(FW)를 조절하여 정확한 치료계획을 설계할 수 있었다. 이에 본 저자가 추천한 Plan Setup Parameter를 CT scan range에 따라 적용하고 Re-CT 여부를 판단한다면 업무의 효율성 및 환자의 피폭선량을 감소시킬 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

유방암 환자의 방사선 치료시 Energy와 Wedge를 combine한 Hybrid plan의 유용성 평가 (Usefulness evaluation of Hybrid planning through dosimetric comparision of Three Dimensinal Conformal Radiation Radiotherapy and Hybrid planning for left breast cancer)

  • 채문기;박병수;안종호;송기원
    • 대한방사선치료학회지
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    • 제26권1호
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2014
  • 목 적 : 본 연구에서는 기존의 방사선 치료 기법인 3D-CRT 방법을 기반으로 치료 Energy와 Wedge를 변형 시킨 Hybrid 치료계획을 세워, open rectangular field를 사용한 2D-RT와 현재 가장 많이 시행되고 있는 방사선치료의 형태인 3D-CRT, 그리고 Hyrid paln 의 각각의 치료계획에 따른 선량분포, 선량-체적 히스토그램을 이용하여 산출된 값들을 비교, 분석하여 Hybrid 치료계획의 유용성을 평가하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법 : 본원에서 방사선 치료를 받은 환자 5명을 대상으로 전산화 단층촬영장치(RT-16GE)를 이용해 CT모의치료를 시행하여 영상을 획득하였다. 치료계획실에서는 이미지 관심영역표시는 종양은 CTV으로, 정상장기는 폐, 심장으로 나타냈다. 치료계획은(pinncle-ver 9.2)은 표적에는 충분한 선량을 정상장기에는 선량이 최소화 되도록 치료계획을 세웠다. 결 과 : Homogeneity Index의 선량비교는 2D-RT (open rectangular field): 38.32, TW(conformal wedge field): 32.01 FIF(field in field): 29.22, HYBRID(energy combine, wedge combine): 30.57으로 나타났다. 2D-RT, TW, FIF Hybrid $V_{75_-lung}$은 각각 112.33, 125.14, 121.3, 123.78. $V_{50_-lung}$은 155.43, 159.62, 157.96, 159.06. $V_{25_-lung}$은 199.86, 200.22, 198.65, 200.31. $V_{50_-heart}$는 각각 26.07, 27.1, 26.85, 27.17 $V_{30_-heart}$ 33.71, 34.37, 34.15, 34.65로 나타났다. 결 론 : HYBRID planning에서 표적에는 3D-CRT 에 비해 비교적 뛰어난 선량분포와 유방을 보호함을 보여주지만 폐와 심장에 많은 선량이 조사됨을 치료계획 시 주의해야 하고 앞으로 해결해야 할 과제라 생각된다. HYBRID 으로 Energy를 혼합하여 사용한다면, 타겟에 보다 더 적절한 coverage가 이루어질 수 있을 것으로 보인다. breast 뿐만 아닌 Lung cacner 치료와 같이 불균질한 부위의 치료에 적용한다면 보다 더 최적을 결과를 이루어낼 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

("황제내경소문(黃帝內經素問)" 중(中) 사혈(瀉血)에 관한 연구(硏究) (A Study on the Blood-Letting Therapy in Elementary Questions)

  • 이준근
    • 대한한의정보학회지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.19-42
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    • 2008
  • Blood-Letting Therapy is a rational and ecological medical treatment by which we can heal most of the diseases by removing the static blood which precipitates in the blood vessel and blocks the flowing of blood. And the static blood is the generic term for the injurious, bad, dead and precipitated blood which is blocked the capillary vessel. The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine says that "the patient is treated with drugs internally and stone acupuncture externally. "In the old texts, the blood-letting therapy is mentioned as blood-letting, network vessel pricking, bloodletting, pricking, and arousing pulses etc and it is noted down as the method of network vessel pricking in 'On the Application of Needles' of Spiritual Pivot. Nine-pricking therapy, twelve-pricking therapy and five-pricking therapy are recorded in the methods of network vessel pricking and among them, the method of squeezing blood after pricking the affected part is explained as the network vessel pricking. There are four methods of network vessel pricking, pricking, picking, cluster needling and scatter-pricking and they are fluidly applied to the various symptoms of diseases. In 'On Discriminative Treating for Patients of Different Regions' in Elementary Questions, Ki-baek emphasizes "most of the local people, there are black in skin and loose in striate, and their diseases are mostly of carbuncle kind. It is suitable to treat the disease with stone therapy to prick with stone, so the stone therapy is transmitted from the east. "And in 'On the Corresponding Relation Between the Eum and Yang of Man and All Things' in Elementary Questions, when the Emperor asked Ki-Back, he answered "sthenia means the sthenia of evil, and deficiency means the deficiency of healthy energy. When the blood is sthenic, the evil should be discharged by pricking when out letting the blood; deficiency of vital energy is the asthenia of channels and network vessels, so the energy should drain from the channel which is not deficient, to replenish. "And in this case we can use the methods of 'Breaking out the static bloods', 'driving out the static bloods', blood-letting'. With this we can infer that the blood-letting therapy is made use of the important medical treatments from the ancient times. Especially in referring to the principles of treatment in The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, it mostly alluded to acupuncture therapies and only eleven times to medicinal treatments. This is to verify that the blood-letting therapy formed the foundation of the medical art. In Dong's Therapy of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Bloodletting, Dong Kyeong-Chang gave emphasis on the points that there must be extravasated bloods without exception in the serious illnesses which is old, unnatural, accompanying acute pains and so we can revive our body‘s sprit by circulating 'gi' and static blood piled up in the network vessel, regulating the weakness and strength, and controling the disharmony of the internal organs. The blood-letting therapy has effect on the orifice in emergency, such as fore draining, freeing network vessels, harmonizing gi and blood, relieving pain, dispersing swelling and concretion, sedation, resolving toxin as well as strengthening the heart, relieving itching. So it has distinguished effect on all kinds of medical treatment to the modern people. But by the change of social customs and the confucianism of confucius - it is widely spread on the period of North and South Dynasties, 'Wi' and 'Jin' in china and the period of the Three States in korea - The blood-letting therapy which was regarded as the most important medicinal treatment withered rapidly. And Confucius accentuated the importance of our body and all its members, loyalty and filial piety and banned any damage of our body under no circumstances. As a result of it, the therapy of blood-letting had a rapid decrease and barely kept itself in existence in both countries. What is worse, at the period of Japanese colonial rule of korea and our nation's founding of early stage, it has been withered by the high-handed policy to change Oriental Medicine into modern medical science. So the therapy of blood-letting barely kept itself in existence in some Buddhist temples. Another case, it has handed down as a old-fashioned quick fix in folk remedies. But all kinds of the contamination of heavy metals and the misuses of antibiotics are widely spread nowadays, which increased diseases of adult people and incurable diseases as modern society unavoidably made its way into a highly industrial society. To make us more miserable, the western medical science - the antibiotics and surgical operation medical science - already reveals itself into a limit. The necessity of a new medical science which can give a security to the patients who are suffering from the diseases of adult people and the incurable diseases is especially come into the force nowadays. In view of the results after bibliographically studying on the blood-letting Therapy in Elementary Questions of the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, the blood-letting therapy has acted for the important Oriental medicinal science and has been clarified the prominent effects on the diseases of adult people and the incurable diseases. So it is regarded as an appropriate thing that we lay out a determined theory of the blood-letting therapy and of course prevent the unwanted side effects from inappropriate medicinal treatments, and make full use of clinic by elevating the curative value and that we win back our self-respect of medical treatment which is dominated from the western medical science and ultimately contribute to national medical welfare.

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한국표준질병사인분류중 한방내과영역의 분류체계 개선 및 진단명 구성에 관한 연구 (The Research about the Classification System Improvement and Cord Development of Korean Classification of Disease on Oriental Internal Medicine)

  • 이원철
    • 대한한방내과학회지
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    • 제31권1호
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2010
  • Objectives : It is necessary that the international classification of diseases (ICD) be examined in order to comprise the third revision of the Korean Classification of Disease on Oriental Medicine (KCD-OM) and disease classification in the oriental internal medicine field. It is essential that the selection, classification and definition of disease and pattern names of oriental concepts in internal medicine be clear. Since 2008, the fifth revision of the Korean Classification of Disease (KCD-5) has been used in Korea. It was required to use the reference classification from the Oriental medicine area based on the ICD-10. Methods : In this review, the necessity for, meaning of and content of the third revision are briefly described. The ICD system was reviewed and KCD-OM was reconstructed. How diagnosis in the oriental internal medicine area had changed is discussed. Review and Results : In 1973, the disease classification of oriental medicine was established the basis on the contents of Dongeuibogam. It was irrespective of the ICD. As to the classification system in the Oriental internal medicine field, systemic disease was comprised of wind, cold, warm, wet, dryness, heat, spirit, ki, blood, phlegm and retained fluid, consumptive disease, etc. Diseases of internal medicine comprised a system according to the five viscera and the six internal organs and followed the classification system of Dongeuibogam. The first and second revisions were of the classification system based on the curriculum in 1979 and 1995. In 1979, in the first revision, geriatric disease and idiopathic types of disease were deleted, and skin disease was included among surgery diseases. This classification was expanded to 792 small classification items and 1,535 detailed classification items to the dozen disease classes. In 1995, in the second revision, it was adjusted to 644 small classes and 1,784 detailed classification items in the dozen disease classes. KCD-OM3 did KCD from this basis. It added and comprised the oriental medical doctor's concept names of diseases considering the special conditions in Korea. KCD-OM3 examined the KCD-OMsecond revised edition (1994). It improved the duplex classification, improper classifications, etc. It is difficult for us to separate the disease names and pattern names in oriental medicine. We added to the U code and made one classification system. By considering the special conditions in Korea, 169 codes (83 disease name codes, 86 pattern name codes) became the pre-existence classification and links among 306 U codes of KCD-OM3. 137 codes were newly added in the third revision. U code added 3 domains. These are composed of the disease name (U20-U33, 97 codes), the disease pattern name (U50-U79, 191 codes) and the constitution pattern name of each disease (U95-U98, 18 codes). Conclusion : The introduction of KCD-OM3 conforms to the diagnostic system by which oriental medical doctors examine classes used with the basic structure of the reference classification of WHO and raises the clinical study and academic activity of the Korean oriental medicine and makes the production of all kinds of nation statistical indices possible. The introduction of KCD-OM3 promotes the diagnostic system by which doctors of Oriental medicine examine classes using the association with KCD-5. It will raise the smoothness and efficiency of oriental medical treatment payments in the health insurance, automobile insurance, industrial accident compensation insurance, etc. In addition, internationally, the eleventh revision work of the ICD has been initiated. It needs to consider incorporating into the International Classification of Diseases some of every country's traditional medicine.

농흉 및 합병된 부폐렴성 흉막 삼출 환자에서 Pigtail 도관 배액의 유용성 (Efficacy of Pigtail Catheter Drainage in Patients with Thoracic Empyema or Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion)

  • 박정우;유승민;설원종;백은기;이규훈;서준범;정성환;안창혁;임영희;박정웅
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • 제54권2호
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    • pp.219-229
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    • 2003
  • 배경 및 목적 : 농흉과 합병된 부폐렴성 흉막 삼출의 치료에서 가장 중요한 것은 적절한 항생제 투여와 빠른 배액이다. 흉관 삽관은 소방이 형성되는 경우나 접근이 어려운 경우 성공률이 낮으며, 혈흉, 장기손상, 횡격막 파열, Hornor 증후군 등의 합병증이 보고되는 침습적 술기로, 최근에는 영상 유도에 의한 pigtail 도관 배액술(pigtail catheter drainage, PCD)이 시행되고 있다. 이에 저자 등은 농흉 및 합병된 부폐렴성 흉막 삼출 환자에서 PCD의 유용성을 알아보고자 후향적 연구를 시행하였다. 대상 및 방법 : 1998년 1월부터 1999년 6월까지 가천 의대 길병원에서 농흉 및 합병된 부폐렴성 흉막삼출로 진단되어 PCD시술을 받은 45명을 대상으로, 진단 당시 증상, 음주 및 흡연력, 혈액 검사 소견, 흉수 검사 소견, 방사선 소견(도관 삽관시, 도관 제거시, 도관 제거 한달 후), 삽관 후 24시간 배액량, 삽관 기간, 삽관 후 입원 기간, 외과적 처치여부 등을 조사하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 결 과 : 대상환자의 남녀비는 42 : 3, 연령은 중앙값 52세(21~74)이었다. 농흉 환자는 23명, 합병된 부폐렴성 흉막 삼출 환자는 22명이었고, 이 중 PCD만을 시행받았던 4명(3명 : 부폐렴성 흉막삼출, 1명 : 농흉)의 환자가 추적관찰에서 탈락되었다. 이들을 제외한 나머지 환자들 중 36명(80%)에서 PCD 또는 PCD와 유로키나제 사용으로 배액이 가능하였으며, 농흉 환자 23명 중 5명(27.1%)만이 외과적 수술을 시행받았고(흉막 박피술 1명, 개방성 흉강 배액술 3명), 이 중 1명이 사망하였다. PCD만 시행 받은 환자군과 PCD와 유로키나제를 사용한 환자군에서 삽관 기간, 삽관 후 재원 기간 및 24시간 평균 배액량은 유의한 차이가 없었다. PCD만 시행 받은 환자군과 수술적 처치를 받은 군 간에 24시간 평균 배액량의 유의한 차이는 없었으며, 삽관 기간($9.4{\pm}5.25$일 vs. $19.2{\pm}9.42$일, p<0.05), 삽관 후 재원 기간($15.9{\pm}10.45$일 vs. $38.60{\pm}11.5$일, p<0.01)이 수술적 처치를 받은 군에서 더 긴 것으로 나타났다. 또한 PCD와 유로키나제를 사용한 군과 수술적 처치를 받은 군 사이에서도 24시간 평균 배액량의 차이는 없었고 삽관 기간($11.1{\pm}7.35$일 vs. $19.2{\pm}9.42$일, p<0.05)과 삽관 후 재원 기간($17.5{\pm}9.17$일 vs. $38.6{\pm}11.46$일, p<0.01)에 유의한 차이가 있었다. PCD 단독 또는 PCD와 유로키나제를 병행하여 사용한 40명의 환자 중 추적관찰시 탈락된 4명을 제외하고 16명(44.4%)에서 도관 제거시 75% 이상 흉수가 감소하였으며, 17명(47.2%)에서는 50~75%, 1명에서는 25~50% 감소하였고, 2명에서는 25% 미만으로 감소하였다. 도관 제거 한 달 후에는 1명을 제외한 35명(97.2%)이 50% 이상의 호전을 보였다. 추적 관찰 기간 중 pigtail 도관 삽관시 특기할 만한 합병증은 없었다. 결 론 : PCD는 농흉 및 합병된 부폐렴성 흉막 삼출 환자에서 심각한 합병증 없이 효과적으로 조기에 배액할 수 있는 유용한 시술로 사료된다.