• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2018

Objective: The purpose of the study was to investigate the time from the injection of muscle relaxants to the first spontaneous respiration between sugammadex and conventional reversal for patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Methods: This study was retrospectively conducted on patients who were diagnosed with gallbladder stone (N802) between January 2014 and April 2017. The data were collected from the electronic medical records of a total of 186 patients (84 patients in the neostigmine group and 102 patients in the sugammadex group). Results: The time required for the first spontaneous respiration in the sugammadex group was shorter than that in the neostigmine group (3.6 min vs 4.9 min; p<0.05). After the injection of intermediate muscle relaxants, the comparison of heart rate and mean arterial pressure in the sugammadex and neostigmine groups revealed that the heart rate in the neostigmine group was higher than in the sugammadex group after 5 min (p<0.05). The mean arterial pressure in the neostigmine group was higher than in the sugammadex group after 10 min (p<0.05). A significant adverse effect of tachycardia was observed in the neostigmine group (p<0.05), but the frequency of rescue antiemetic in the sugammadex group was significantly higher than in the neostigmine group (p<0.05). Conclusion: In this study, the unwanted effect of neostigmine group was tachycardia; therefore, in the case of patients with hemodynamic instability, sugammadex is recommended. At 12 hours after the injection of sugammadex to patients, more antiemetics were required than in the neostigmine group; therefore, more research should be conducted on postoperative nausea and vomiting.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.165-170
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• 2005

Objective: The aim of present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of low-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) therapy in women with recurrent spontaneous abortions (RSA) and elevated pre-conceptional peripheral blood CD56+Natural Killer (NK) cell percentage. Study Design: Retrospective case control study. Materials and Methods: Thirty three women with RSA and elevated pre-conceptional peripheral blood CD56+NK cell percentage who had received low-dose IVIg therapy (400 mg/kg per day, every 4 week, until 20 gestational weeks) were included in this study. Controls were nine women with RSA and elevated pre-conceptional peripheral blood CD56+ Natural Killer (NK) cell percentage who had not received IVIg therapy were included in this study. Medical records of study and control groups were retrospectively analyzed and we compared the successful pregnancy outcomes between two groups. Successful pregnancy outcome was defined as pregnancy ongoing beyond 25 gestational weeks. Results: Age, number of previous abortions, pre-conceptional CD56+NK cell percentage and type of RSA were not statistically different between two groups. Otherwise, twenty-five women who received IVIg therapy (25/33, 75.8%) but, only three women who had not received (3/9, 33.3%) had a successful pregnancy outcome and the rate difference between two groups was statistically significant. Conclusion: Based on our study, low-dose IVIg therapy have a effective role in treatment of RSA patients with elevated pre-conceptional peripheral blood CD56+ Natural Killer (NK) cell percentage, but more larger scaled prospective study is needed for available of conclusive evidence.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.217-222
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• 2005

Objectives: We aimed to investigate the clinical effect of low-dose intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in unexplained recurrent spontaneous aborters (RSA) with elevated peripheral CD56+ natural killer (NK) cell levels and to determine the pre-conceptional NK cell percentage predictive of subsequent successful pregnancy outcome. Materials and Methods: Sixty four cases of unexplained recurrent miscarriage with elevated peripheral NK cells (>15%) were received low dose IVIg infusion at the dosage of 400 mg/Kg/month after confirmation of gestational sac and continued until 20 weeks. The patients were divided into two groups according to the pregnancy outcome: Group I was success of treatment defined as live birth at or after 25 gestational weeks and Group II was failure of treatment. The preconceptional levels of the peripheral blood NK cells were compared between two groups. Results: Fifty-three pregnancies resulted in live births after 25 weeks and 11 resulted in abortion (Overall success rate of IVIG treatment was 82.8%). Preconceptional CD56+ NK cell percentage in group II ($27.4{\pm}1.9%$) was higher than those in group I ($22.3{\pm}0.8%$). By using ROC curve, optimal discrimination between success and failure of treatment was achieved with ${\leq}27%$ of preconceptional NK cell percentage. Conclusion: In RSA patients with elevated NK cells, we suggest that preconceptional peripheral blood CD56+ NK cell level could be a useful marker for predicting successful treatment outcome of low-dose IVIg infusion.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2024

최근 국내외 온라인 전자상거래 플랫폼의 증가와 국내 항만 컨테이너 물동량 증가로 인해 대형 화물차의 운행 비율이 높아지면서 지속적으로 화물차 화재발생 건수가 증가하고 있다. 특히 화물차의 화재발생 요인 중 높은 비율을 차지하는 원인이 자연발화현상이다. 화물차 화재 예방을 위한 다양한 학문적 접근이 시도되고 있으나 제동 시 발생하는 타이어 자연발화현상에 대한 연구가 부족하여 본 연구에서는 화물차의 제동장치와 유사한 환경을 구축하기위해 실험 장치를 직접 설계 및 제작하였다. 실험 장치의 제동장치에 비접촉식 온도센서를 장착하여 제동장치에서 발생하는 온도데이터를 수집하였으며 제동장치의 온도센서와 타이어 표면의 온도센서로부터 수집한 데이터를 기반으로 시계열 예측모델 중 ARIMA 모델을 활용하여 차량의 온도변화 추이에 맞는 적절한 모수를 선정하였으며 측정한 데이터와 예측한 데이터를 비교 분석한 결과 90% 이상의 정확도를 도출하였다. 이를 기반으로 화물차 운전자로 하여금 제동장치에서 발생하는 과열현상을 실시간으로 경고하고 대응할 수 있도록 지원함으로써 화물차의 화재발생 비율을 낮출 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제46권9호
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• pp.871-875
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• 2003

목 적 : 소아에서 두 번째로 빈도가 높은 심방 중격 결손의 조기진단이 점차 증가하면서 그 자연 경과에 대한 재조명이 이루어지고 있으나 아직 미흡한 부분이 많으며 특히 결손의 크기 변화가 어떻게 되는지에 대해 보고가 많지 않은 현실이다. 이에 저자들은 소아에서 다른 선천성 심질환이 없는 순수한 이차성 심방 중격 결손 환아의 심초음파 추적 관찰을 통해 성장에 따른 결손크기의 변화에 대해 알아보고자 본 연구를 시행하였다. 방 법 : 1996년 1월부터 2000년 12월까지 5년간 연세 심장 혈관 병원 심장 소아과에서 새롭게 심방 중격 결손증으로 진단 받은 272명의 환아 중 다른 선천성 심질환이 있거나, 추적 관찰기간이 12개월 미만이었거나, 추적 관찰 도중 어떠한 이유든 수술이나 중재적 심도자술을 시행 받은 환아들을 제외한 89명을 대상으로 심초음파적 추적 관찰을 시행하였다. 심초음파적 크기는 늑골하 장, 단축면상에서 얻은 것으로 통일하였다. 진단 시 결손크기에 따라, 나이에 따라 각각 4개 군으로 나누어 각각의 군에서 결손의 자연 폐쇄 여부와 시간경과에 따른 결손의 크기변화(mm/월)를 알아보았다. 또한 폐쇄군과 비폐쇄군으로 나누어 각각의 군의 특징에 대해서 알아보았다. 결 과 : 대상 환아 89명 중 결손의 크기가 5 mm 미만인 군은 총 25명(28%), 이중 22명(88%)이 자연폐쇄 되었으며 평균 결손의 크기 변화는 -0.206(mm/월)이었다. 5-8 mm인 군은 총 22명(24.7%), 이중 10명(45.5%)이 자연 폐쇄되었으며 평균 결손의 크기변화는 -0.067이었다. 9-12 mm인 군은 총 26명(29.3%), 이중 3명(11.5%)이 자연 폐쇄되었으며 평균 결손의 크기변화는 +0.058이었다. 12 mm 초과인 군은 총 16명(18%), 이중 자연폐쇄는 없었으며 평균 결손의 크기변화는 +0.155이었다. 연령에 따른 분류에서 1, 2, 3, 5세를 기준으로 각각 기준 이하와 초과의 군으로 나누었을 때 3세까지는 자연 폐쇄와 결손의 크기변화가 통계학적으로 유의하게 차이가 있었으며(P<0.05) 5세가 되면 차이가 없어지는 것으로 조사되었다. 결손이 폐쇄된 군은 총 35명(39.3%), 폐쇄되지 않은 군은 54명(60.7%)으로 두 군 사이의 통계학적 차이는 진단 시 결손의 크기였다. 비폐쇄군의 절대적인 결손 크기변화는 +0.116(mm/월)으로서 통계학적으로 의미 있게 결손의 크기가 증가된 것으로 조사되었으나(P<0.005), 이를 체표면적으로 환산하였을 경우 통계학적 의미는 없었다. 결 론 : 소아의 단순 심방 중격 결손증에서 첫 진단 시 결손의 크기가 작을수록, 연령이 어릴수록 자연 폐쇄의 가능성이 높으며 자연 폐쇄되지 않는 경우 결손의 절대적 크기가 증가되나 체표면적으로 환산시 통계학적 의의는 없다. 결손의 자연 폐쇄는 평균 26.2개월에 이루어져 진단 후 약 2년 이상의 추적관찰이 필요하다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.495-509
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• 2003

연구배경 : 호중구에 의해 매개되는 염증반응은 호중구의 수명이 매우 짧기 때문에 대부분 자연 종결된다. 패혈증에서는 이러한 호중구의 아포프토시스가 감소되어 수명이 연장되어 있어서 지속적인 염증반응이 일어나게 된다. 호중구의 수명 연장을 유도하는 많은 염증 매개 물질들이 nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$ 전사인자에 의해 조절되기 때문에 이 연구에서는 nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$가 패혈증 환자에서 관찰되는 호중 구의 아포프토시스 억제와 연관이 있을 것으로 가정하였다. 방법 : 건강한 정상인과 패혈증 환자의 호중구를 정맥혈로부터 신선하게 분리하여 실험하였다. 호중구의 아포프토시스는 특징적인 아포프토시스의 형태를 보이는 세포를 광학현미경으로 세거나 Annexin V를 이용한 유세포분석법으로 정량하였다. Nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$의 활성도는 면역형광 엽색법 또는 electrophoretic mobility shift assay로 판단하였다. 항아포프토시스 단백인 X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis의 발현 정도는 western blot으로 평가하였다. 결과 : 패혈증 환자에서 자발적 아포프토시스가 감소되어 있음을 확인하였다. 패혈증 환자의 호중구에 cycloheximide를 처치하였을 때 아포프토시스가 유의하게 증가하여 아포프토시스 감소가 새로운 단백 합성에 의존적임을 관찰하였다. 패혈증 환자의 호중구에서는 정상인과는 달리 기저상태에서도 nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$가 핵 내로 이동되어 활성화되어 있었고 nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$의 활성을 억제하였을 때 아포프토시스의 억제가 반전되었다. 또한 nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$에 의존적인 X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis 단백의 발현 수준이 정상인의 호중구에서는 24시간 동안 배양하면서 점차 감소하였지만 패혈증 환자의 호중구에서는 지속적으로 발현 수준이 유지되었다. 결론 : 패혈증 환자에서 관찰되는 호중구의 아포프토시스 억제에는 nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$ 전사인자의 활성화에 의한 생존 단백의 유도가 관여할 것으로 생각하였다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2012

Objectives: The French National Occupational Diseases Surveillance and Prevention Network (RNV3P) is a French network of occupational disease specialists, which collects, in standardised coded reports, all cases where a physician of any specialty, referred a patient to a university occupational disease centre, to establish the relation between the disease observed and occupational exposures, independently of statutory considerations related to compensation. The objective is to compare the relevance of disproportionality measures, widely used in pharmacovigilance, for the detection of potentially new disease ${\times}$ exposure associations in RNV3P database (by analogy with the detection of potentially new health event ${\times}$ drug associations in the spontaneous reporting databases from pharmacovigilance). Methods: 2001-2009 data from RNV3P are used (81,132 observations leading to 11,627 disease ${\times}$ exposure associations). The structure of RNV3P database is compared with the ones of pharmacovigilance databases. Seven disproportionality metrics are tested and their results, notably in terms of ranking the disease ${\times}$ exposure associations, are compared. Results: RNV3P and pharmacovigilance databases showed similar structure. Frequentist methods (proportional reporting ratio [PRR], reporting odds ratio [ROR]) and a Bayesian one (known as BCPNN for "Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network") show a rather similar behaviour on our data, conversely to other methods (as Poisson). Finally the PRR method was chosen, because more complex methods did not show a greater value with the RNV3P data. Accordingly, a procedure for detecting signals with PRR method, automatic triage for exclusion of associations already known, and then investigating these signals is suggested. Conclusion: This procedure may be seen as a first step of hypothesis generation before launching epidemiological and/or experimental studies.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.179-188
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• 2007

We propose a multi-strategic concept-spotting approach for robust spoken language understanding of conversational Korean in a hostile recognition environment such as in-car navigation and telebanking services. Our concept-spotting method adopts a partial semantic understanding strategy within a given specific domain since the method tries to directly extract predefined meaning representation slot values from spoken language inputs. In spite of partial understanding, we can efficiently acquire the necessary information to compose interesting applications because the meaning representation slots are properly designed for specific domain-oriented understanding tasks. We also propose a multi-strategic method based on this concept-spotting approach such as a voting method. We present experiments conducted to verify the feasibility of these methods using a variety of spoken Korean data.

• 대한한방부인과학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.78-90
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• 2016

Objectives: The purpose of these cases is to report the effects of Korean medicine on two women with recurrent miscarriage.Methods: One women who had recurrent miscarriage with myoma uteri was 39 years old. She was treated with herbal medicine and acupuncture until intrauterine pregnancy (IUP) 14 wks. the other who had recurrent miscarriage with adenomyosis was 40 years old. she was also treated with these until IUP 11 wks.Results: After treatment, one women delivered successfully by normal full term spontaneous delivery. The other succeeded in normal pregnancy and she is 15 weeks pregnant.Conclusions: Two cases show that Korean Medicine has effects on recurrent miscarriage with old age and underlying diseases.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.109-113
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• 2011

Objective : Peripheral neuropathy is characterized by hyperalgesia, spontaneous burning pain, and allodynia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of rolipram, a phosphodiesterase-4-specific inhibitor, in a segmental spinal nerve ligation model in rats. Methods : Both the L5 and L6 spinal nerves of the left side of the rats were ligated. Phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor (rolipram) and saline (vehicle) were administered intraperitoneally. We measured mechanical allodynia using von Frey filaments and a nerve conduction study. Results : The mechanical allodynia, which began to manifest on the first day, peaked within 2 days. Multiple intraperitoneal injections of rolipram ameliorated the mechanical allodynia. Furthermore, an intraperitoneal administration of rolipram improved the development of pain behavior and nerve conduction velocity. Conclusion : This study suggests that the phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor, rolipram, alleviates mechanical allodynia induced by segmental spinal nerve ligation in rats. This finding may have clinical implications.