Activated protein C protects myocardium via activation of anti-apoptotic pathways of survival in ischemia-reperfused rat heart.

abstract：:Continuous efforts have been made by the organ donation and transplantation community in Korea to increase organ donation by the deceased. The authors detailed trends of organ donation and utilization over the past 10 yr using data provided by the KONOS. The yearly number of deceased donors has grown gradually since 2...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Min SI,Kim SY,Park YJ,Min SK,Kim YS,Ahn C,Kim SJ,Ha J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Korean Society for the Study of Obesity (KSSO) has defined the waist circumference cutoff value of central obesity as 90 cm for men and 85 cm for women. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the corresponding waist circumference values. A total of 3,508 persons in the Korean Rural Genomic Cohort Study...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Koh JH,Koh SB,Lee MY,Jung PM,Kim BH,Shin JY,Shin YG,Ryu SY,Lee TY,Park JK,Chung CH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although congenital renal tumors are rare, congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN) is the most common renal tumor in early infancy. It is non-metastatic, well differentiated, amenable to surgical removal, and carries a good prognosis. Polyhydramnios has been detected in most of the published cases of CMN. However, we ex...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim CH,Kim YH,Cho MK,Kim KM,Ha JA,Joo EH,Kim SM,Song TB

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially, acute loss of smell (anosmia) and taste (ageusia) was not considered important symptoms for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To determine the prevalence of these symptoms and to evaluate their diagnostic significance, we (approximately 150 physicians of the Daegu Medical Association) prospectively colle...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee Y,Min P,Lee S,Kim SW

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability and validity of the Cognitive Impairment Diagnosing Instrument (CIDI) were studied in 67 nursing home elderly subjects and 251 elderly psychiatric patients. Its possible highest score is 77 and covers 10 subscales: short-term memory, long-term memory, concentration/calculation, abstract thinking, judge...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park JH,Ko HJ,Kim JB,Choi SY,Cho HC,Lee SK

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-level gentamicin resistance (HLGR) in enterococci has increased since the 1980s, but the clinical significance of the resistance and its impact on outcome have not been established. One hundred and thirty-six patients with bacteremia caused by enterococci with HLGR (HLGR group) were compared with 79 patients with...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Jang HC,Lee S,Song KH,Jeon JH,Park WB,Park SW,Kim HB,Kim NJ,Kim EC,Oh MD,Choe KW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether maternal serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is of value in predicting funisitis and early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS) in women with preterm labor or preterm premature rupture of membranes (PROM). This retrospective cohort study included 306 consecutive women with preterm lab...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee SY,Park KH,Jeong EH,Oh KJ,Ryu A,Park KU

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood kidney tumors seldom metastasize into the cranial cavity unless it is a special histological variant. We report a 4-year-old boy with multiple intracranial metastases in the left parietotemporal and right cerebellar area from primary clear cell sarcoma of the kidney without evidence of bony metastases. Metas...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park DY,Kim YM,Chi JG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (RAS) usually involves the ostium and the proximal one-third of the renal artery main branch. Percutaneous renal artery angioplasty with stent placement is a well recognized treatment for atherosclerotic RAS. Occasionally, atherosclerotic RAS involves renal artery bifurcations. Ho...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Ahn J,Park SH,Shin WY,Lee SW,Lee SJ,Jin DK,Kim D,Kim TH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) is universal and progressive. Here, we report recent results of response-guided therapy for HCV recurrence based on early protocol biopsy after LT. We reviewed patients who underwent LT for HCV related liver disease between 2010 and 2012. Protocol bio...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim H,Lee KW,Yi NJ,Lee HW,Choi Y,Suh SW,Jeong J,Suh KS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embolization of the occlusion device after percutaneous closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) is a potential disastrous complication. The usual site of embolization is the right side of the heart including pulmonary artery, but the device embolization to the extracardiac aorta is extremely rare. Here, we report a succ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Cho JY,Kim KH,Yoon HJ,Seon HJ,Ahn Y,Jeong MH,Cho JG,Park JC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of adjustment method of urinary mercury in spot urine is one of the important issues in assessing the health risks of mercury workers. But there have been debates about whether creatinine or other forms of correction for urinary concentration are better in reducing the variation of urinary mercury. W...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee E,Park HK,Kim HJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) of the liver is a rare entity and has also been termed nodular lymphoid lesion or pseudolymphoma of the liver. We report a case of hepatic RLH exhibiting unusual histiocyte-rich histologic features in a 47-yr-old woman in conjunction with a renal cell carcinoma. A follow-up computed...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park HS,Jang KY,Kim YK,Cho BH,Moon WS

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal sepsis remains one of the most important causes of death and co-morbidity in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. The aim of this study was to determine the current incidences of early-onset sepsis (EOS) and late-onset sepsis (LOS), the distribution of pathogens, and the impact of infection on co-morbidities...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee SM,Chang M,Kim KS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to define characteristics of children with acute carbon monoxide poisoning. Eighty children hospitalized with acute carbon monoxide poisoning were recruited prospectively over a period of 12 months. Sociodemographic features, complaints and laboratory data were recorded. When the patient w...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Unsal Sac R,Taşar MA,Bostancı İ,Şimşek Y,Bilge Dallar Y

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endoscopic diagnosis of atrophic gastritis can contribute to risk stratification and thereby tailored screening for gastric cancer. We aimed to evaluate the effect of training on inter-observer agreement in diagnosis and grading of endoscopic atrophic gastritis (EAG) according to the level of endoscopists' e...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Jin EH,Chung SJ,Lim JH,Chung GE,Lee C,Yang JI,Kim JS

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase gene has overlapping reading frames with surface genes, which allows to alter the amino acid codon of the surface genes. In adefovir (ADV) treated chronic hepatitis B patients carrying rtA181T/rtA181V mutations, overlap with surface gene mutations such as sW172stop/sL173F has bee...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim JH,Jung YK,Joo MK,Kim JH,Yim HJ,Park JJ,Kim JS,Bak YT,Yeon JE,Byun KS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fetus is an unstable subject for an isolated physiological and biochemical study. To study the fetus in a controlled and stable environment, a trial was done using 12 goat fetuses. Extrauterine incubation system was devised using an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation system. The system consisted of a venous reser...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Pak SC,Song CH,So GY,Jang CH,Lee KH,Kim JY

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chest radiographs (CXR) are the most commonly used imaging techniques by various clinicians and radiologists. However, detecting lung lesions on CXR depends largely on the reader's experience level, so there have been several trials to overcome this problem using post-processing of CXR. We investigated the a...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Hong GS,Do KH,Lee CW

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), the BRAF V600E mutation has been reported to be associated with several clinicopathological features and poor survival. However, the prognostic implications of BRAF V600E mutation and the associated clinicopathological characteristics in CRCs remain controversial. Therefore, w...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Jang MH,Kim S,Hwang DY,Kim WY,Lim SD,Kim WS,Hwang TS,Han HS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though several pathogenetic theories concerning the frequent association of Chiari malformation and hydrocephalus with myeloschisis have been suggested, none of them explains all the aspects of the disorder. To investigate whether myeloschisis is the direct cause of Chiari malformation and hydrocephalus or these condi...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Sim KB,Hong SK,Cho BK,Choi DY,Wang KC

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery injury rarely occurs after blunt chest trauma, but it can lead to extensive myocardial infarction and be frequently overlooked. A 16-yr-old man was presented with comatose mental state and rapid respiration rate. He ran into guard rail while riding a motorcycle. In routine examination, his electrocardi...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park WS,Jeong MH,Hong YJ,Park OY,Kim JH,Kim W,Ahn YK,Cho JG,Park JC,Ahn BH,Kim SH,Kang JC

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of arrhythmias is crucial for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. However, conventional devices do not provide sufficient diagnostic accuracy while patients should suffer from bothersome diagnostic process. We sought to evaluate diagnostic capability and safety of the new adhesive electrocard...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Choi W,Kim SH,Lee W,Kang SH,Yoon CH,Youn TJ,Chae IH

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:We investigated the association between pentraxin 3 (PTX3), a novel inflammatory marker, and bone mineral density (BMD) in the general Korean population. Methods:We selected a sub-cohort of 1,440 subjects (757 men and 683 women) from participants in the community-based Dong-gu Study. The mean age was 66.0 ±...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee R,Ahn HR,Shin MH,Kim HN,Lee YH,Choi SW,Kweon SS

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a large volume of publications, a barrage of non-reviewed preprints on various professional repositories and a slew of retractions in a short amount of time. METHODS:We conducted an e-survey using a cloud-based website to gauge the potential source...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Gupta L,Gasparyan AY,Misra DP,Agarwal V,Zimba O,Yessirkepov M

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disease-specific factors that predispose patients to diverse cardiac diseases in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been established. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for cardiac involvement in patients with SLE drawn from the Korean Lupus Network (KORNET) registry. METHODS:A total of...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Choe JY,Lee SS,Kwak SG,Kim SK

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The zoonotic disease Q fever is caused by Coxiella burnetii and usually affects high-risk human populations. We conducted a serological survey of dairy cattle farmers in Korea to determine seroreactivity and identify risk factors for C. burnetii infection. Methods:This cross-sectional study included 1,824 o...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park JH,Chu H,Yoo SJ,Hwang KJ,Lim HS

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH) results from mutations in the PHEX gene. Mutational analysis of the PHEX gene in 15 unrelated Korean patients with hypophosphatemic rickets revealed eight mutations, including five novel mutations, in nine patients: two nonsense mutations, two missense mutations, one insertion, ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Song HR,Park JW,Cho DY,Yang JH,Yoon HR,Jung SC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although eosinophilic fasciitis (EF) may precede hematologic malignancy or Hodgkin's disease, association with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is extremely rare. Only four cases of EF preceding or concomitant PTCL have been reported in the world literature. We experienced the first Korean case of EF complicated by t...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim H,Kim MO,Ahn MJ,Lee YY,Jung TJ,Choi IY,Kim IS,Park CK

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of estriol on oxygen uptake, glucose release, lactate and pyruvate production, beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate production in perfused rat liver as well as, carbon uptake in rat liver and intracellular calcium in isolated Kupffer cells were investigated. Basal oxygen consumption of perfused liver incr...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yang JM,Kim SS,Kim JI,Ahn BM,Choi SW,Kim JK,Lee CD,Chung KW,Sun HS,Park DH,Thurman RG

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00