• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.491-498
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• 2019

Objectives: This study aimed to put clinical emphasis on the importance of considering medical precautions, such as drug history and a possible infection, when treating elderly patients. Methods: We closely observed two elderly female patients aged 79 and 76 who had been hospitalized for the treatment of anorexia at the Department of Hepato-Hemopoietic System, Kyung Hee University Korean Medicine Hospital in April 2018 for 5 and 9 days, respectively. Results: Through an elaborate medical investigation including a detailed inquiry and laboratory examinations, modifying some drugs and treating a urinary tract infection were preferentially needed to treat these two patients. In the first case, her overall symptoms, including anorexia, were improved after taking Dansambohyeol-tang combined with three types of antacids adjusted by holding 10 drugs in total, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that mainly causing chronic gastric ulcer. In the second case, the urinary tract infection was detected by blood test and urine analysis during the hospitalization period. After taking Geummogpaljeong-san and antibiotics for the treatment of the infection, the chief complaints including anorexia and the negative reaction to nitrite in the urinary analysis were improved. Conclusion: Considering the clinical precautions, including medications and infection possibility, is important especially when treating elderly patients.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.119-134
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• 1995

임파조혈조직내에 MMC가 과다축적될 경우 형태학적 또는 기능학적인 손상가능성의 유무를 알기 위하여, 틸라피아 복강내에 V. anguillarum FKC를 단독으로 투여하거나(제 1 MMC 유도군) 또는 이 세균입자항원과 함께 콜로이드 탄말액을 반복투여함으로써(제 2 MMC 유도군) 비장 및 두신내에 인위적으로 MMC 형성을 유도하였다. 제 1유도군에서는 대조군에 비하여 MMC 형성증가가 있었으나 현저하지 않았고, 제 2유도군에서는 MMC가 비장 및 두신의 대부분을 점유할 정도로 과다하게 형성되었다. 모든 실험군에서, 비장조직에서는 주로 동정맥벽내나 유초동맥에 밀접하여 형성되었고, 특히 제 2유도군에서는 동정맥벽내가 아닌 곳의 MMC는 그 중심 또는 변연에 유초동맥으로 인정되는 얇은 내피만 남은 내강이 자주 인정되었다. 두신에서토 임파구가 밀집한 임파구 영역내에 주로 형성되었으나 혈관벽과의 관계는 불분명하였다. 이러한 MMC의 밀집에도 불구하고 조혈조직실질의 조직학적 변성소견은 인정할 수 없었다. 한편, 방어기능손상의 유무를 알기 위하여 제 2유도군에 대하여 E. tarda 생균으로 공격하였으나 감염감수성의 증가는 없었으며 오히려 현저한 감소를 보였다. 또한 동 세균 FKC를 투여한 후 혈청항체가의 변동을 경시적으로 추적하였다. 그러나 항체생산능에 손상가능성은 전혀 없었을 뿐 아니라 두 MMC 형성유도군에서 모두 1주째부터 대조군에 비해 4배 내지 8배의 높은 항체가를 나타내었으며 이 경향은 4주째까지 지속되었다. 또한 조혈기능 손상여부와 관련하여 말초혈액내 혈구조성을 경시적으로 조사하였으나 유의한 변화가 인정되지 않았다. 따라서 틸라피아에서 MMC는 유초동맥을 포함한 혈관벽과 밀접하여 또는 이들 주위로 형성되나, 이들의 과다형성으로 임파조혈조직의 형태학적 및 기능적 손상을 야기하지 않으며, 균체항원의 주사 또는 탄말에 의한 MMC 형성량의 차이는 어체 방어계의 활성과 밀접한 관련성이 있는 것으로 사료되었다.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 1967

The effects of X-ray irradiation and the thyroid gland on the erythropoietic system were studied in the white male rabbits. The total body irradiation was done in doses of 250 r and 500 r to each of 5 rabbits for 10days. The factors were 220KV, 10mA, FLI/4 Cu+1 mmAI(HVL:2.0 mm Cu) 50 cm F.S.D. The thyroid dysfunction was experimentally induced, by giving 2mg of thyroid tablets per kg body weight for 15 days in 5 rabbits for hyperthyroidism and by giving 1.5 mC of $^{131}I$ per kg body weight in another 5 rabbits for hypothyroidism. Fourteen healthy rabbits were used as control. The hematologic changes and ferrokinetic data obtained from $^{59}Fe$ and apparent half survival of the red blood cells obtained from $^{51}Cr$ were compared. Following were the results: A. X-ray irradiated group; 1. There were no significant changes in hematologic findings except for leucopenia. A slight decrease of red blood cells was observed in 500 r irradiated animals. 2. The decreases in the iron turnover rates of the plasma and red blood cells as well as in the red cell renewal rate were found in both groups. A :significant decrease of the red cell iron utilization rate was observed in the 500 r irradiated animals. 3. The apparent half survival times of the red blood cells were slightly, in the 250 r ($12.1{\pm}0.80$ days), and markedly shortened in the 500 r irradiated animals ($9.8{\pm}1.38$ days), the normal being $14.0{\pm}1.6$ days. 4. It appears, therefore, that the anemia caused by X-ray irradiation is due to the inhibition of hemopoietic function and the excess destruction of the red blood cells. B. Thyroid dysfunction group; 1. The slight increases of the red blood cell count and circulating blood volume with the normal serum iron level were observed in the hyperthyroid group, while the decreases of the red and white blood cell counts, hemoglobin and hematocrit values with a marked decrease of the serum iron level in the hypothyroid group. 2. A marked decrease of the plasma iron disappearance rate with increases of plasma iron turnover, red cell iron utilization and red cell iron turnover were observed in the hyperthyroid group, while the marked delay and decreases in the hypothyroid group. 3. The apparent half survival times of the red blood cells were almost the same with the control in the hyperthyroid group, ($14.0{\pm}1.58$ while a marked shortening in the hypothyroid group $10.6{\pm}0.30$. 4. It was reconfirmed that the thyroid hormones bear a close relationship with the erythropoietic system, namely, the latter is stimulated by the former. The lack of the thyroid hormones thus induces the bone marrow depression leading to anemia the major cause of which, therefore, is not hemolysis.