Prevalence of allergic diseases and risk factors of wheezing in Korean military personnel.

abstract：:We provided a curve-fit equation to predict the normal heart weight (g) in Koreans by examining 422 autopsies (215 males and 207 females, from newborn to age 77 yr) who were relatively in good general condition. Heart weight was well correlated with body surface area (m2), body weight (kg), and body height (cm) but po...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Seo JS,Lee SY,Won KJ,Kim DJ,Sohn DS,Yang KM,Cho SH,Park JD,Lee KH,Kim HD

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With recent progress in treatment modalities, mortality from upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding has decreased appreciably. The aim of this study was to establish how UGI bleeds are managed in Korean patients with cirrhosis and to evaluate treatment outcomes. A total of 479 episodes of acute UGI bleeding in 464 pati...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Seo YS,Kim YH,Ahn SH,Yu SK,Baik SK,Choi SK,Heo J,Hahn T,Yoo TW,Cho SH,Lee HW,Kim JH,Cho M,Park SH,Kim BI,Han KH,Um SH

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence and development of de novo malignancy (DNM) after liver transplantation (LT) are the major causes of late recipient death. METHODS:We analyzed the incidence of extrahepatic DNM following living donor LT according to the status of pretransplant hepatic malignancy. We...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park GC,Hwang S,Ahn CS,Kim KH,Moon DB,Ha TY,Song GW,Jung DH,Yoon YI,Cho HD,Kwon JH,Chung YK,Kang SH,Choi JU,Jung IJ,Lee SG

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:We investigated how cataract surgery might influence long-term intraocular pressure (IOP) change in both healthy subjects and glaucoma patients. Methods:A retrospective analysis of patients who had had clear corneal phacoemulsification with a minimum of 12 months of follow up was performed. Glaucoma patient...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Baek SU,Kwon S,Park IW,Suh W

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk factors related to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection showed geographic and temporal differences. We investigated HCV-related risk factors in Korea where intravenous drug use (IVDU) is uncommon. The HCV-related risk factors were investigated in a prospective, multicenter chronic HCV cohort (n = 711) using a st...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim JY,Cho J,Hwang SH,Kil H,Bae SH,Kim YS,Lee HC,Jeong SH

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2007, the Korean Interstitial Lung Disease Society had collected clinical data of patients who have diagnosed as Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) since 1990 through nationwide survey, which showed that LAM patients had increased sharply after 2004. The present study was performed to show the clinical features of Kore...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park HY,Nam HS,Chung MP,Jeong SH,Kim YJ,Cha SI,Kim YW,Park JS,Uh ST,Park CS,Park MS,Moon JA,Jung KS,Jegal YJ,Kim DS,Song JW,Yum HK,Park YB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We intended to determine that virtual endoscopy and laparoscopy of the stomach based on serially sectioned cadaver images is beneficial. Therefore, the outlines between the gastric wall and lumen were traced using the new female data of the Visible Korean to build a volume model. While the outlines were expanded at ap...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kwon K,Shin DS,Shin BS,Park HS,Lee S,Jang HG,Park JS,Chung MS

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study aimed to identify the gender-specific characteristics of the surrogate measures of insulin resistance and to establish valid cut-off values for metabolic abnormalities in a representative sample in Korea. Methods:Data were collected from the datasets of the Korean National Health and Nutrition Ex...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Moon S,Park JH,Jang EJ,Park YK,Yu JM,Park JS,Ahn Y,Choi SH,Yoo HJ

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus (PMME) is an extremely rare tumor with only scattered cases reported. Although surgical resection has been considered as the best possible option, the prognosis has been nonetheless poor. We report a case of PMME which was treated by surgical resection and additionally follo...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee SA,Hwang JJ,Choi YH

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community-based active contact and follow-up are known to be effective in reducing the risk of repeat suicide attempts among patients admitted to emergency departments after attempting suicide. However, the characteristics that define successful collaborations between emergency departments and community-base...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim D,Lee WJ,Woo SH,Kim SH,Seo AR,Yoon HJ,Choi SP

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the role of visceral and subcutaneous fat tissue in insulin sensitivity and lipid metabolism, we measured the fasting levels of plasma free fatty acid (FFA) and insulin, glucose disappearance rate (Rd), and hepatic glucose production rate (HGP) after surgical removal of visceral (VF) or subcutaneo...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim YW,Kim JY,Lee SK

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionized hypocalcemia is a common finding in critically ill patients, but the relationship between ionized hypocalcemia and mortality risk in trauma patients has not been well established. The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of initial ionized calcium (iCa) in predicting mortality in the trauma populatio...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Choi YC,Hwang SY

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable cohort (n = 369,725) was reconstructed to test the association of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with subsequent occurrence of liver cancer in a healthy Korean population. The cohort consisted of male beneficiaries of the Korea Medical Insurance Corporation over 30 years of age, living nationwide. The HBV ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoo KY,Heon-Kim,Lee MS,Park BJ,Ahn YO,Lee HS,Kim CY,Park TS

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to identify the causes of the development of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) associated with end stage kidney disease (ESKD). A total of 112 patients with ESKD, 64 on hemodialysis (HD) and 48 on peritoneal dialysis (PD), were enrolled. The duration of ESKD and dialysis, the site of the arterioveno...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kwon HK,Pyun SB,Cho WY,Boo CS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation produces reactive oxygen species, which exert diverse biological effects on cells and animals. We investigated alterations of heme oxygenase (HO) and non-protein thiols (NPSH), which are known as two major anti-oxidant enzymes, in female and male C57BL/6 mice in the lung, liver, and brain after whol...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Han Y,Platonov A,Akhalaia M,Yun YS,Song JY

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective histological study of 540 malignant lymphomas diagnosed at the Department of Pathology of the Seoul National University from 1976 through 1986 is presented. Malignant lymphoma is the 10th most common malignant tumor in Korea, comprising 3.07% of all malignancy during period of study. Among malignant ly...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Chi JG,Kim CW,Cho KJ,Lee SK

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2010, we proposed the first Korean Guidelines for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE). It was applicable to Korean patients, by modifying the contents of the second edition of the Japanese guidelines for the prevention of VTE and the 8th edition of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) evidence...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Bang SM,Jang MJ,Kim KH,Yhim HY,Kim YK,Nam SH,Hwang HG,Bae SH,Kim SH,Mun YC,Kim YK,Kim I,Choi WI,Jung CW,Park NH,Choi NK,Park BJ,Oh D,Korean Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis.

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), a critical enzyme in folate metabolism, plays an important role in DNA methylation. It has been suggested that abnormal DNA methylation contributes to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and congenital anomalies. The previous findings regarding the genetic relationship betwee...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim SG,Song JY,Joo EJ,Jeong SH,Kim SH,Lee KY,Lee NY,Ahn YM,Kim YS,Roh MS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was to clarify whether Behcet's disease (BD) could be classified into the spondyloarthropathy (SpA) complex. It was undertaken on 58 patients with BD (BD group), 56 patients with SpA (SpA group), and 3 patients who concurrently satisfied the criteria for BD and SpA (BDSpA group). The clinical parameters and...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Chang HK,Lee DH,Jung SM,Choi SJ,Kim JU,Choi YJ,Baek SK,Cheon KS,Cho EH,Won KS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine blood pressure (BP) measurement is recommended to begin at 3 years of age, but there are no national BP reference values for Korean children less than 7 years of age. Therefore, we developed sex-, age-, and height-specific BP reference values for non-overweight children aged 3-9 years. METHODS:We an...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee HA,Park B,Park EA,Cho SJ,Kim HS,Choi EJ,Kim NE,Park H

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) causes right ventricular failure and possibly even death by a progressive increase in pulmonary vascular resistance. Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy has provided an alternative treatment for ailments of various organs by promoting cell regeneration at the site of p...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim KC,Lee HR,Kim SJ,Cho MS,Hong YM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether sperm selection by hyaluronic acid (HA) binding could improve fertilization rate and embryo quality in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles. Two hundred nineteen oocytes obtained from eighteen women were injected with either HA-bound (n = 107) or conventio...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Choe SA,Tae JC,Shin MY,Kim HJ,Kim CH,Lee JY,Hwang D,Kim KC,Suh CS,Jee BC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IMR is useful for assessing the microvascular dysfunction after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It remains unknown whether index of microcirculatory resistance (IMR) reflects the functional outcome in patients with anterior myocardial infarction (AMI) with or without microvascular obstruction (MO).Th...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoo SH,Yoo TK,Lim HS,Kim MY,Koh JH

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the ability of Tl-201 abdominal SPECT to differentiate between chronic focal pancreatitis and pancreatic malignancy. Seventeen patients (12 men, 5 women; mean age, 56 years; 9 pancreatic cancer, 8 chronic pancreatitis) with pancreatic mass were prospectively investigated wi...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Bom HS,Song HC,Kim JY,Choi SK,Rew JS,Yoon CM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the expression patterns of the transforming growth factor (TGF)beta isoforms in the internal ear, an immunohistochemical study of rat embryos was performed. Rat embryos were taken on the 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th day after conception and their internal ears were immunohistochemically stained a...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim HJ,Kang KY,Baek JG,Jo HC,Kim H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the patterns of alcohol disorder comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders, using Korean nationwide epidemiological data. By two-stage cluster sampling, 5,176 adult household residents of Korea were interviewed using the Korean version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Psychiatric disord...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Cho MJ,Hahm BJ,Suh T,Suh GH,Cho SJ,Lee CK

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxedema coma is the extreme form of untreated hypothyroidism. In reality, few patients present comatose with severe myxedema. We describe a patient with myxedema coma which was initially misdiagnosed as a brain stem infarct. She presented to the hospital with alteration of the mental status, generalized edema, hypoth...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Ahn JY,Kwon HS,Ahn HC,Sohn YD

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placenta increta is an uncommon and life-threatening complication of pregnancy characterized by complete or partial absence of the decidua basalis. Placenta increta usually presents with vaginal bleeding during difficult placental removal in the third-trimester. Although placenta increta may complicate first and early...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Son G,Kwon J,Cho H,Kim S,Yoon B,Nam E,Kim J,Kim Y,Kim J,Cho N,Kim S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vascular smooth muscle cells, reactive oxygen species (ROS) were known to mediate platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-induced cell proliferation and NADH/NADPH oxidase is the major source of ROS. NADH/NADPH oxidase is controlled by rac1 in non-phagocytic cells. In this study, we examined whether the inhibition of...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kong G,Lee S,Kim KS

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00