• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.66-71
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• 2004

2 Cases of nephrotomy for removal of calculi in dog were referred to veterinary teaching hospital of Konkuk University. In case 1, a 5 year-old, castrated male Yorkshire Terrier dog was referred because of intermittent hematuria, pain in urination for one month. Hematologic and chemical examination showed mild increased BUN and CPK. Radiographic findings revealed radiopaque materials in the urinary bladder, urethra, and left kidney. Retrograde hydropropulsion was performed to move the calculi into the bladder, and cystotomy was done to remove calculi. Nephrotomy was performed to removal of the calculi from the left renal pelvis and calyx. After operation renal function were recovered and preserved. In case 2, a 5 year-old, neutral female Schnauzer dog was referred because of persistant vomiting, anorexia, and celialgia for 20 days. Hematologic and chemical examination showed stress leucogram, moderate azotemia, hypercalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, and increased ALP. Radiographic findings revealed enlargement of the left kidney and radiopaque materials in the both of the kidneys. On excretory urography, left kidney was no pyelogram. On ultrasonography, renal tissue was very thin and distended renal pelvis appeared. Nephrectomy of nonfunctional left kidney and nephrotomy for removal of calculi from the right renal pelvis and calyx were done. One week after operation, renal and hepatic functions were recovered. So, in cases of renal calculi, it is necessary that renal calculi are extracted actively as far as the patient's body condition endurable.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.295-298
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• 2014

Primary renal echinococcosis, a rare disease involving the kidney, accounts for 2-3% of human echinococcosis. A 64-year-old female patient from Uzbekistan presented with complaints of left flank pain. A CT scan revealed a cystic mass in the upper to midpole of the left kidney. We regarded this lesion as a renal malignancy and hand-assisted laparoscopic radical nephrectomy was performed to remove the renal mass. The mass consisted of a large unilocular cyst and multiple smaller cysts without any grossly visible renal tissue. The final pathologic diagnosis was a renal hydatid cyst. For patients from endemic areas, hydatid cyst should be included in the differential diagnosis. Here, we present a case of renal hydatid cyst in a female patient who relocated from Uzbekistan to Korea.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.170-179
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• 1999

목적 : 만성신부전유발 백서에서 식이 sodium 제한이 만성신부전의 진행속도 및 혈압조절에 어떠한 영향을 주는지, 또한 항고혈압제제 (enalapril: E, nicardipine: N)와 병행 투여하였을 매 항고혈압제제 단독투여보다 만성신부전의 진행속도 및 혈압조절에 어떠한 영향을 주는 지를 연구하였다. 방법 : 5/6 신절제술로 만성신부전을 유발시킨 백서를 수술 제 7일부터 무작위로 0.49% sodium 식이군, 0.25% sodium 식이군, 0.49% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.49% sodium 식이 nicardipine군, 0.25% sodium식이 enalapril군, 0.25% sodium식이 nicardipine군으로 나누고 신절제술 4주, 12주, 16주 혹은 24주에 혈압, 24시간 단백뇨의 변화, 신 조직의 mesangial expansion score(MES) 및 사구체용적의 변화를 비교 분석하였다. 곁 과 : 1) 0.25% sodium 식이군은 0.49% sodium 식이군보다 혈압의 감소를 보였고 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.25% sodium 식이 nicardipine군, 0.49% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.49% sodium 식이 nicardipine 군에서는 혈압의 감소가 관찰되었다. 2) 16주째 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.25% sodium 식이 nicardipine군, 0.49% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.49% sodium 식이 nicardipine 군은 0.49% sodium 식이군보다 의의있는 단백뇨의 감소를 보였다 (P<0.05). 0.25% sodium 식이군의 16주째 뇨단백은 $78{\pm}16$ mg 이었고 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril 군, 0.25% sodium 식이 nicardipine군은 각각 $35{\pm}9mg,\;41{\pm}15mg$으로 enalapril, nicardipine 에 의해 뇨단백의 감소를 관찰할 수 있었고, 0.25% sodium 식이군의 24주째 뇨단백은 $82{\pm}10$ mg 이었고 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril 군,0.25% sodium 식이 nicardipine군은 각각 $54{\pm}3mg,\;76{\pm}11mg$으로, enalapril 에 의해서만 24 시간 단백뇨의 의의있는 감소를 관찰할 수 있었다. 3) 24주째 백서를 희생하여 크레아티닌 청소률을 관찰한 결과 심한 신부전은 관찰되지 않았고, 0.25% sodium 식이 대조군에 비해 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril군에서 사구체여과율이 증가됨을 관찰할 수 있었다. 4) 신절제술후 남아 있는 신조직무게를 비교하여 보면 24주째 0.25% sodium 식이군, 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.25% sodium 식이 nicardipine군에서 16주째 0.49% sodium 식이군, 0.49% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.49% sodium 식이 nicardipine 군보다 의의있게 신조직무게가 증가됨을 관찰할 수 없었다. 5) 0.25% sodium 식이군은 0.49% sodium 식이군과 비교하여 MES의 현저한 감소를 보였고 (0.25% sodium식이군: 12주; $1.97{\pm}0.02$, 24주; $2.06{\pm}0.03$ vs. 0.49% sodium 식이군: 12주; $2.29{\pm}0.09$, 16주; $2.55{\pm}0.16$, P<0.05) 12주 이후에 관찰한 MES는 0.25% sodium 식이군, 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.25% sodium 식이 nicardipine군 세군간의 통계적인 차이는 없었다. 6) 24주에 시행한 0.25% sodium 식이군의 사구체용적은 16주에 시행한 0.49% sodium 식이군의 사구체용적보다 현저하게 감소되어있었다 (0.25% sodium 식이군:24주; $1.58{\pm}0.18{\times}10^6{\mu}m^3$ vs. 0.49% sodium 식이군:16주; $1.98{\pm}0.18{\times}10^6{\mu}m^3$, P<0.05). 24주 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril군의 사구체용적($1.51{\pm}0.08{\times}10^6{\mu}m^3$)은 16주 0.49% sodium 식이 enalapril군의 사구체용적($1.81{\pm}0.22{\times}10^6{\mu}m^3$)과 비교하여 현저한 감소를 보였다. 12주, 24 주에 관찰한 0.25% sodium 식이군, 0.25% sodium 식이 enalapril군, 0.25% sodium 식이 nicardipine군의 사구체용적은 세군간에 의의있는 차이는 없었다. 결론 : 식이 sodium 제한은 대상성 신비대의 감소를 통해 신손상을 감소시켰고 혈압의 감소에도 도움을 주었다. 식이 sodium 제한과 항고혈압제재 특히 enalapril을 병행투여하였을 때 항고혈압제재 단독투여보다 뇨단백 및 신조직의 대상성 비대를 감소시켰다. 따라서 만성신부전증에서 경도의 저sodium식이가 만성신부전으로의 진행을 지연시키며 혈압의 감소에도 도움이 됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.5043-5047
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• 2015

Background: Relatively little is known with certainty about the status and role of p53 or MDM2 in predicting prognosis and survival of renal cell carcinoma. The present study aimed to determine the value of P53 and MDM2 over-expression, alone and simultaneously, to predict five-year survival of patients with kidney cancer in Iran. Materials and Methods: Patients with kidney cancer referred to Hasheminejad Kidney Center between 2007 and 2009, underwent radical nephrectomy and had pathology reports of clear cell, papillary or chromophobe renal cell carcinoma were included in our cohort study. Other histological types of renal cell carcinoma were not included. The patients with missed, incomplete or poor quality paraffin blocks were also excluded. Overall ninety one patients met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. To assess the histopathological features of the tumor, immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of formalin fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor samples were performed. The five-year survival was determined by the patients' medical files and telephone following-up. Results: In total, 1.1% of all samples were revealed to be positive for P53. Also, 20.8% of all samples were revealed to be positive for MDM2.The patients were all followed for 5 years. In this regard, 5-year mortality was 30.5% and thus 5-year survival was 85.3%. According to the Cox proportional hazard analysis, positive P53 marker was only predictor for patients' 5-year survival that the presence of positive p53 increased the risk for long-term mortality up to 2.8 times (HR=2.798, 95%CI: 1.176-6.660, P=0.020). However, the presence of MDM2 could not predict long-term mortality. In this regard, analysis by the ROC curve showed a limited role for predicting long-term survival by confirming P53 positivity (AUC=0.610, 95%CI: 0.471-.750, P=0.106). The best cutoff point for P53 to predict mortality was 0.5 yielding a low sensitivity (32.0%) but a high specificity (97.9%). In similar analysis, measurement of MDM2 positivity could not predict mortality (AUC=0.449, 95%CI: 0.316-.583, P=0.455). Conclusions: The simultaneous presence of both P53 and MDM2 markers in our population is a rare phenomenon and the presence of these markers may not predict long-term survival in patients who undergoing radical nephrectomy.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.390-395
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• 1990

Renal cell carcinoma frequently extends into the vena cava and occasionally, even into the right atrium. We experienced 2 cases of renal cell carcinoma extending into the inferior vena cava by radical nephrectomy and complete removal of thrombi in the cava by joint approach with urologic surgeons. In the literature, improvement of survival by complete removal of tumor thrombi in the vena cava was documented and joint approach of cardiovascular surgeons and urologic surgeons result in appropriate surgical approach.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.871-886
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• 2008

Objective : Gypsum fibrosum has been traditionally used in treatment of febrile diseases and recently been shown to have anti-inflammatory effect. Chronic renal failure has a serious clinical symptoms including proteinuria, azotemia, anemia, and hyperlipidemia and has characteristic histopathological changes, glomerular hypertrophy, infiltration of inflammatory cells, and crescentic sclerosis, We investigated the effects of gypsum fibrosum on renal functional and histopathological disorder in chronic renal failure rat model induced 5/6 nephrectomy. Methods : Using Sprague-Dawley rats, CRF was induced by 5/6 nephrectomy. The rats were divided into 3 groups, normal, conrol, and gypsum administered orally with gypsum fibrosum 500mg/kg/day. Body weight, 24 hr proteinuria, hematologic analysis, and histological morphologic changes were followed up after 8 weeks. The glomerular macrophage/monocyte infiltration, $TGF-{\beta}_1$, type IV collagen, and angiotensin II type1 receptor($AT_1$) were evaluated by immunohistochemistry. Resuls : In the CRF control group, functional parameters and histopathologic changes clearly indicated the development of CRF. 24 hr proteinuria significantly increased in the CRF control group over the normal group, and serum creatinine level was lower in the gypsum group than in the control group, LDL-cholesterol was significantly lower in the gypsum group than in the control group. Morphological investigations showed a variety of characteristic features of CRF, glomerular hypertrophy, increasing cellular density of glomerulus, deposition of extra-cellular matrix, fibrotic change, and glomerular sclerosis in the control group, but in the gypsum group, these features diminished significantly. In observation of renal type IV collagen and $AT_1$ expression, positive area significantly increased in the control group over the normal group, and it significantly decreased in the gypsum group compared to the control group. Conclusions : Our findings suggest that gypsum fibrosum inhibits $AT_1$ and type IV collagen expression in renal tissues and attenuates progression of glomerulosclerosis and interstitial fibrosis in chronic renal failure rats, which lead to amelioration of renal function. From these results, we suggest that gypsum fibrosum may have renoprotective effects and could be a useful remedy agent for treating chronic renal failure.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.165-169
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• 2008

Renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is great clinical important because viability of the organ depends on the tolerance to ischemia-reperfusion injury, an inevitable processing during surgery. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of premedicated ascorbic acid alone in I/R injury model induced by cross-clamping of renal vessels. In the rabbit models, 2-4 kg New Zealand white rabbits were subjected to 30 minutes of warm unilateral renal ischemia followed by removal of contralateral kidney and then divided into five groups, control (2) arid treatment groups (3). In control group 1, the rabbits only received right nephrectomy. In control group 2, the rabbits received I/R on left kidney after the right nephrectomy. In treatment group 1, the rabbits received ascorbic acid 50 mg/kg IV before the operation. In treatment group 2, the rabbits received ascorbic acid 100 mg/kg IV before the operation. In treatment group 3, the rabbits received ascorbic acid 200 mg/kg IV before the operation. Blood samples were collected from these rabbits for measurement of kidney function tests at the 0, 1 st, 3rd and 7th day and antioxidant enzyme( SOD, GSHPx, CAT) at 24 hours. Kidney function tests (serum creatinine and BUN) showed a significant difference between group 2 and group 4, 5. Activity of antioxidant enzymes in plasma were significant decrease in group 4, 5 compare to group 2. The result of this study suggested that the exogenous ascorbic acid had a role of attenuation of renal I/R injury in rabbit model.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.263-267
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• 2010

Although cerebellar hemangioblastomas are histopathologically benign, they yield a degree of malignant clinical behavior in long-term follow-up. We present two cases of long-term progression of renal cell carcinoma, which had been diagnosed as renal cysts during treatment for cerebellar hemangioblastoma. A 14-year-old male with von Hippel-Lindau disease was admitted for a cerebellar hemangioblastoma with multiple spinal hemangioblastomas and a renal cyst. After primary total resection of the cerebellar hemangioblastoma, the patient required two further surgeries after 111 and 209 months for a recurrent cerebellar hemangioblastoma. Furthermore, he underwent radical nephrectomy as his renal cyst had progressed to renal cell carcinoma 209 months after initial diagnosis. A 26-year-old male presented with multiple cerebellar hemangioblastomas associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease and accompanied by multiple spinal hemangioblastomas and multiple cystic lesions in the liver, kidney, and pancreas. He underwent primary resect'lon of the cerebellar hemangioblastoma in association with craniospinal radiation for multiple intracranial/spinal masses. Unexpectedly, a malignant glioma developed 83 months after discovery of the cerebellar hemangioblastoma. At the same time, renal cell carcinoma, which had developed from an initial renal cyst, was diagnosed, and a radical nephrectomy was performed. In the view of long term clinical course, cerebellar hemangioblastoma associated with von Hipple-Lindau disease may redevelop even after primary total resection. In addition, associated lesions such as renal cysts may also progress to malignancy after the passing of a sufficient length of time.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.2027-2030
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• 2016

Objective: To investigate the effect of peripheral blood CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cell on postoperative immunotherapy in patients with renal carcinoma. Methods: 38 patients with renal cell carcinoma were recruited, and 20 patients from the operation group purely underwent the radical nephrectomy therapy, 18 patients from the combined group successively underwent the radical nephrectomy therapy and IFN-${\alpha}$ adjuvant immunotherapy. Additionally, 12 healthy subjects were recruited in the same period of time and regarded as the control group. Flow cytometry was used to detect CD4 +, CD8 +, CD4 + CD25+ T lymphocyte subset content and the ratio of all parts in the pre-operative period, in the first post-operative week and in the third post-operative month, compare and analyze its variation trend. Results: The CD4+CD25+ T lymphocyte subset content of individual renal carcinoma patients was significantly higher than that of the control group, also increases with the progression in the tumor stage (P<0.05). The post-operative CD4 + CD25+T lymphocytes of individual operation group and combined group patients showed different degrees of increment, but the increment of the combined group was significantly lower than that of the operation group (P<0.05). For the combined group patients with less pre-operative CD4 + CD25+T lymphocytes, their levels would increase after the immunotherapy, while the pre-operative patients with more CD4 + CD25+ T lymphocytes were the opposite situation. Conclusion: The detection of peripheral blood CD4+CD25+ regulatory T lymphocyte subset can reflect the anti-tumor immune status of renal cell carcinoma patient body. It can contribute to predict the prognosis of immunotherapy and provide reference for the choice of renal carcinoma post-operative adjuvant immunotherapy.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 1997

A 3-year-old boy with a Wilms' tumor had unusually severe hypertension, polydipsia, polyuria and hypokalemia. Physical examination on admission was unremarkable except for the presence of a smooth, firm mass in the right abdomen. Computerized tomography showed a tumor occupying the upper two thirds of the right kidney. Plasma renin activity and aldosterone concentration were markedly elevated, 37.7 mg/ml/hour(normal in supine position 0.15-2.33 mg/ml/hour) and 120.1 ng/dL(normal in supine position 1 to 16 ng/dL), respectively. Hypertension varied from 150/90 mmHg to 240/180 mmHg, and was not effectively controlled by antihypertensive drugs. Right nephrectomy was performed on the sixth hospital day. At laparatomy, there was no evidence of mechenical compression of the renal artery by the tumor. The tumor, about 8 cm in diameter, was confined to the renal capsule without involvement of the renal blood vessels at the hilum. Histopathology was Wilms' tumor of favorable histology. On electron microscopy, tumor cells contained intracytoplasmic electron dense secreting graules, suggesting the possibility of renin secreting tumor cells. Shortly after nephrectomy, signs and symptoms were relieved dramatically, and plasma renin activity and aldosterone concentration were also decreased to normal.