• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.504-512
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• 1994

연구배경 : 간경화 환자에서 심질환 또는 폐질환이 동반되지 않으면서 심각한 저산소혈증이 발생할 수 있다는 사실은 이미 오래전부터 알려져 있는 사실이다. 그 원인으로서 폐혈관 장애를 초래하는 것이 주된 역할을 하는 것으로 알려져 있는데 그 중에서도 특히 폐혈관 확정에 의한 폐내단락이 가장 중요한 기전으로 제시되고 있다. 폐내단락은 전모세혈관 수준에서 폐내혈관확장이 발생하거나 직접적인 동정맥 교통에 의해서 발생하는데 간경화 환자에서 흔히 관찰되는 피부 소견인 거미상 혈관종과 관련성이 있다. 이러한 폐내 모세혈관의 확장으로 인해 중심 혈류 속도가 빨라지고 모세혈관 통과 속도가 증가하여 결국은 폐확산 장애가 초래되는데 이러한 효과는 심박출량이 증가하는 과운동성 순환을 나타내는 간경화의 혈류학적 특성과 상승작용을 유발하여 저산소혈증이 발생한다. 또한 앙아위에서 기립자세로 체위변화를 하면 폐기저부위에서 중력에 의한 혈류량이 증가하여 폐내단락 효과가 배가되어 저산소혈증이 더욱 악화되므로 기립성 탈산소증과 편평호흡이 발생할 수도 있다. 그러나 이러한 소견들은 주정성 간경화와 원발성 담즙성 간경화를 주로하는 구미에서의 결과이고, B형간염과 이로 인한 간경화 및 간암의 유병율과 사망률이 세계적으로 가장 높은 우리나라에서는 이에 대한 연구가 거의 없는 실정이다. 이에 저자들은 후괴사성 간경화가 대종을 이루는 국내 간경화 환자에서의 저산소혈증과 기립성 탈산소증의 빈도를 조사하고 그 기전으로서 폐내단락의 중요성을 확인하기 위해 본 연구를 시행하였다. 방법 : 간경화 환자 중에서 심폐질환의 증거가 없고 복수, 상부위장관 출혈, 간성 혼수등과 같은 심한 합병증의 현증이 없는 비교적 안정상태에 있는 48명을 대상으로 하여 앙아위와 기립시 동맥혈분석검사를 시행하여 저산소혈증과 기립성 탈산소증의 빈도를 조사하고, 그 결과에 따라 저산소혈증군과 정상산서혈증군으로 분류하여 각각 폐기능검사 및 폐내단락율을 측정하기 위한 Tc-99m-MAA 주사를 실시하였다. 폐내단락율 계산은 뇌와 좌우신장의 혈류량은 전신 혈류량의 32%인 점을 기준하여 뇌와 좌우신장에서 측정된 방사성 계수를 전신 방사성 계수로 환산하고 이 값을 좌우폐의 방사성 계수와 합산한 후 이에 대한 전신 방사성 계수의 비율을 계산함으로써 결정하였다. 결과 : 동맥혈산소분압 80 mmHg 미만의 저산소혈증은 9명에서 관찰되어 18.8%의 빈도를 보였고 10 mmHg 이상의 기립성 탈산소증은 8명에서 관찰되어 16.7%의 빈도를 보였으나 동맥혈산소분양 60 mmHg 미만의 심각한 저산소혈증은 관찰되지 않았다. 동맥혈 산소분압은 거미상 혈관종이 관찰되는 환자군에서 유의하게 낮았으며 혈청학적 표지자와 간경화의 심한 정도를 반영하는 간기능검사 수치와는 유의한 상관관계는 없었다. 저산소혈증군과 정상산소혈증군으로 분류하여 시행한 폐기능검사 소견상 양군간에 유의한 차이는 없었으며 Tc-99m-MAA 전신주사를 이용한 폐내단락율은 저산소혈증군에서 $11.4{\pm}4.1%$로서 정상산소혈증군의 $4.1{\pm}2.0%$보다 유의하게(p<0.05) 높은 결과를 나타내었다. 결론 : 간경화 환자에서 저산소혈증은 적지 않은 빈도로 관찰되는 소견으로 그 기전으로는 폐내단락이 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 생각되지만 후괴사성 간경화가 대종을 이루는 국내의 간경화 환자에서는 임상적으로 호흡곤란 및 청색증을 유발할 정도의 심각한 저산소혈증은 매우 드물다고 생각된다.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1066-1069
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• 2002

Wilson's disease is a rare inborn error of metabolism inherited as a autosomal recessive trait. The disease has varied mode of manifestations. It is characterized by different neurologic disorder and hepatic disease. I experienced a case of Wilson's disease in 40 year old woman who was suffered from liver cirrhosis, severe anorexia, and classical neurologic symptoms such as tremour, dysarthria and ataxia. The symptoms was not relieved by D-penicillamine, Youngyanggaksan and Samchulgunbi-tang but anorexia was improved significantly by same medication.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.382-384
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• 2008

Gas forming brain abscess is a rare disease caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae occurring in patients with impaired host defense mechanism such as diabetes mellitus or liver cirrhosis. A 59-year-old man with 2-year history of diabetes mellitus and 20-year history of liver cirrhosis presented to the hospital with headache. On the day after admission, severe headache was developed and he deteriorated rapidly. Brain CT showed a non-enhanced mass including multiple air density as well as surrounding edema seen in the right occipital lobe, and isodensity air-fluid level seen in the right lateral ventricle. Despite emergent ventricular drainage and intraventricular and intravenous administration of antibiotics, his condition progressively worsened to sepsis and to death after 5 days. Bacterial culture of blood and ventricular fluids disclosed a Gram (-) rod, Klebsiella pneumoniae. In this report we review the pathogenic mechanism and its management.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2000

One of my administrational patient had the disease of liver cirrhosis with cerebrovascular hemorrhage simultaneously. so we investigated the process of cureness in detail. In the investigational method, at the day of onset the patient was administered the sunghyangjunggisan(星香正氣散) for 4 days. hyelbuchugatanggamibang(血府逐瘀湯加味方) for 7 days, the day after saengganggunbitang(生肝建脾湯) and the extracts of Artemisia capillaris(茵蔯), Alisma plantago(澤瀉) were took for 17 days. So we searched the attentioanable results in the Biochemistry. Brain CT, Sonogram. Abdominal CT, and the decrease of self symptom. In the results we recognized that the patient was improved in the LFT, the smaller portal vein, the resolving of hemorrhage, the decrease of self symptom etc.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.392-395
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• 1992

Hepatic hydrothorax is defined as the presence, in a cirrhotic patient, of a large pleural effusion in the absence of primary pulmonary or cardiac disease. Pleural effusions occur in 5% to 10% of patients with cirrhosis of the liver. The effusions are usually right-sided, but may be bilateral or left-sided. The precise mechanism of fluid accumulation is not clear. We reported a case of right hepatic hydrothorax occuring in the liver cirrhosis with ascites. Diagnosis was confirmed by the intraperitoneal and intrapleural injection of radioisotope $^{99m}Tc-tin$ colloid that demonstrated the one-way transdiaphragmatic flow of fluid from the peritoneal to pleural cavities.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.1983-1988
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• 2012

Stem cell transplantation is emerging as a possible new treatment for liver cirrhosis, and recent animal studies have documented the benefits of stem cell therapy in a hepatic fibrosis model. However, the underlying mechanism of stem cell therapy is still unclear. Among the proposed mechanisms, the cell replacement mechanism is the oldest and most important, in which permanently damaged tissue can be replaced by normal tissue to restore function. In the present study, Cy5.5-labeled superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) was used to label human mesenchymal stem cells. The uptake of fluorescently labeled nanoparticles enabled the detection and monitoring of the transplanted stem cells; therefore, we confirmed the direct incorporation and differentiation of SPIO into the hepatocyte-like transplanted stem cells by detecting human tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT), well-known enzymatic marker for hepatocyte-specific differentiation.

• 대한신경집중치료학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.143-147
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• 2018

Background: Hypoglycemia is uncommon in people without diabetes. There have been only a few reports of cardiac arrest in conjunction with hypoglycemia in non-diabetic patients. Case Report: A 66-year-old man visited the emergency room with dizziness. He was a chronic alcoholic. Laboratory test showed no evidence of diabetes mellitus. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed a left cerebellar infarction. Abdomen computed tomography demonstrated liver cirrhosis with minimal ascites. During his hospital stay, he consumed only a small amount of food because of nausea and headache. On hospital day 4, he had a cardiac arrest after two seizure episodes. His blood glucose was 10 mg/dL. The combination of liver cirrhosis, renal failure and poor oral intake was presumed to be the causes of the severe hypoglycemia. Conclusion: We report a rare case of cardiac arrest occurring in conjunction with severe hypoglycemia in a non-diabetic patient with cerebral infarction.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.66-70
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• 2022

The spleen is the most commonly injured organ after blunt abdominal trauma. Nonoperative management (NOM) is the standard treatment for blunt splenic injuries in haemodynamically stable patients without peritonitis. Complications of NOM include rebleeding, new pseudoaneurysm formation, splenic abscess, and symptomatic splenic infarction. These complications hinder the NOM of patients with blunt splenic injuries. We report a case in which a large haemorrhagic fluid collection that occurred after angio-embolisation was resolved by percutaneous drainage in a patient with liver cirrhosis who experienced a blunt spleen injury.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.868-873
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• 2004

Renal dysfunction could be developed as the secondary disease of liver cirrhosis. Delayed or suppresed lipid peroxidation by the treatment with physiological active substances could be explained as the antioxidative and protective effect in tissue damage. In this study, we investigated an antioxidative effect and renal function improvement of Hovenia dulcis in liver fibrosis(cirrhosis) induced rats. The female Sprague-Dawley rats (180∼210 g) were divided into 3 groups (Normal, AC: CCl₄ mixture treated group, AC-HV: CCl₄ mixture+ Hovenia dulcis treated group) and renal damage was developed by CCl₄ mixture administration in 4 weeks (0.8 ㎖/rat). The tissue of kidney and liver and sera were used for quantitative measurement of enzyme activity, MDA and Hyp. The histological change and gene expression of collagen α1(III) mRNA and a1(IV) mRNA were observed by Masson's trichrome staining and RT-PCR. As a result, the clinical biochemical parameters of liver function (AST and ALT) in sera of AC-HV group showed significantly 46.4% and 104.8% lower (p<0.005), and the level of ALP and BUN as the parameter of protein urine and azotemia showed 17.8 % and 25.8 % lower than in AC group. In AC-HV group, the concentration of MDA in kidney and liver was decreased significantly 15.8% and 21.3% when compared with AC group (p<0.01 -0.005). The content of Hyp in kidney of AC-HV group is merely higher than in AC group, in contrast to liver tissue. The expression of collagen α1(III) mRNA and collagen α1(IV) mRNA was decreased in AC, but both of collagen mRNA in normal and AC-HV group expressed fast similar. More massive lipid droplets, thicker collagen fiber bundles in portal triads and more formation of portal central septum were observed in the liver of AC group than in AC-HV group. In conclusion, CCl₄ mixture intoxication could be developed not only liver fibrosis(cirrhosis) but also renal dysfunction by the massive lipid peroxidation and suppression of interstitial collagen and basement membrane collagen synthesis. And the water extract of Hovenia dulcis may be possessed the antioxidative and protective effect and improvement of kidney function in renal dysfunction induced rats.

• 대한핵의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한핵의학회 1969년도 제8차 학술대회
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• pp.8.3-9
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• 1969