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Clinical Observation on East-West Integration Treatment in Stroke and Brain Disease (중풍 뇌 질환의 한 방향 협진에 관한 임상적 고찰)

  • Shin, Ae-sook;Lee, ln-whan;Kim, Na-hee;Kim, Hye-rni;Kim, Min-kyung;Sim, So-ra;Cho, Seung-yeon;Park, Seong-uk;Park, Jung-mi;Bae, Hyung-sup;Ko, Chang-nam
    • The Journal of the Society of Stroke on Korean Medicine
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2010
  • Objectives : This study was aimed to evaluate the current status of East-West integrated treatment in stroke and brain disease and to discuss further plans. Methods : The medical records of patients who visited the stroke and brain disease center at Kyung Hee University, East-West Neo Medical Center from May 2006 to August 2010 were evaluated. The general characteristics of patients who underwent integrated treatment, trend in the number of cross referrals were initially evaluated. Later major disorders, the reasons of referrals and the number of visits in outpatients were analyzed. Results : 1. 3496 patients were referred from the eastern medical hospital to the western medical hospital and 2440 patients from the western medical hospital to the eastern medical hospital. The number of patients reached a peak alter the opening of the hospital and has decreased from then on. Referrals of female patients were more than those of male patients and patients over 50 years old were the most. 2. Admitted patients with stroke of chronic stage were most commonly referred from the eastern medical hospital to the western medical hospital and cerebral infarction was most common from the western medical hospital to the eastern medical hospital. Among the outpatients cerebral infarction topped from east to west, and stroke of chronic stage from west to east. 3. 36.6% of the patients from east to west received integrated treatment more than 3 times and 28.6% from west to east. Headache was the second most common reason to be referred from west to east and 36.7% of patients didn't continue to have either of the treatment and 30.3% received eastern treatment only, Conclusions: According to this study, chronic stroke management was successfully performed in the outpatient clinic in the form of East-West integration treatment. Further research on other diseases such as headache is recommended.

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Effects of Concurrent Administration of Sopunghwalhyeol-tang and Clopidogrel on Atherosclerosis in the $ApoE^{(-/-)}$ Mouse (동맥경화증이 유발된 $ApoE^{(-/-)}$ mouse에서 소풍활혈탕(疎風活血湯)과 Clopidogrel의 병용투여 효과에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Beom-Joon;Oh, Sae-Choon;Kim, Young-Chan;Lee, Jeong-Sook;Kang, Deok-Hee;Lee, Woo-Kyoung;Lee, Young-Il;Lew, Jae-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.124-135
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    • 2010
  • Background and Objective: Atherosclerosis is a diffuse, systemic disease that affects the coronary, cerebral, and peripheral arterial trees. Clopidogrel is widely used antiplatelet agent and its efficacy has been proven in cardiac and extracardiac vascular diseases, but it has several side effects. Therefore we investigated whether Sopunghwalhyeoltang, which is widely used for treating the blood stasis syndrome in traditional medicine, could decrease the side effect of antiplatelets and have a synergic effect. Methods & Materials: Male $ApoE^{(-/-)}$ mice were randomly divided into three different experimental groups, non-treated group (Control group), clopidogrel-treated group (CP group) and clopidogrel with Sopunghwalhyeol-tang treated group (CPS group). The control group was fed with only an atherogenic diet, the CP group an atherogenic diet plus clopidogrel 25mg/kg and the CPS group an atherogenic diet plus clopidogrel 25mg/kg with Sopunghwalhyeol-tang 100 mg/kg. We investigated plasma lipids with liver function test, and performed a histological investigation of liver and abdominal aorta. Results: 1. Photomicrographs of liver and abdominal aorta tissue showed lower histological injury and lipid accumulation in the CP and CPS groups than those in the Control group. 2. In the CPS group, plasma triglyceride level was significantly lower than in the Control and CP groups. 3. In the CPS group, the plasma aspartate aminotransferase (AST) level was significantly lower than in the CP group. Conclusions: The above results shows that a combined treatment of Sopunghwalhyeol-tang and clopidogrel have a synergic effect through inhibiting vessel injury and decrease the side effects of clopidogrel alone.

Maturity and Spawning of the Pointhead Flounder Cleisthenes pinetorum in the West Sea of Korea (한국 서해에 출현하는 용가자미, Cleisthenes pinetorum 암컷의 성숙과 산란)

  • Choi, Dong Hyuk;Youn, Byoung Il;Lee, Seung Hwan;Kwon, Dae Hyeon;Kim, Maeng Jin
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.55 no.5
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    • pp.575-582
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    • 2022
  • This study revealed the reproductive biology of pointhead flounder Cleisthenes pinetorum, in the middle of the West Sea of Korea. We collected samples using gill net and drag net fisheries in coastal waters from January to December 2019. Mmonthly gonodosomatic index and maturity stage results showed that the spawning period was October to December, and the females grew faster than the males. The fecundity ranged from 16,728 to 1,039,616 number of eggs, and the relationship between TL and fecundity (F) was 0.0000003TL4.7434 (R2=0.4898). The size-frequency distribution of eggs suggested that C. pinetorum spawm once during a spawning period. The length at 50% maturity for females was estimated to be 18.9 cm.