National Trends of Meniscectomy and Meniscus Repair in Korea.

abstract：:Intraspinal bronchogenic cysts are rare congenital cystic lesions. In all the reported cases, the cysts have been located in the cervical, upper thoracic or thoracolumbar segments. We report the case of an intraspinal bronchogenic cyst in the sacral location. We present the case of a 5-month-old female with a skin dim...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Ko KS,Jeun SS,Lee YS,Park CK

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:A rare case of gastric cancer associated with gastrojejunal and gastrocolic fistula is presented. A 56-year-old man who had been diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer(Borrmann's type III) 5 months previously was admitted due to watery diarrhea and frequent vomiting for 2 weeks. Fluoroscopic examination was visualized...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Choi SW,Yang JM,Kim SS,Kang SH,Ro HJ,Song KS,Ha HK,Lim KW,Kim JS

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late complications of ureteral stents are frequent, and longer indwelling times are associated with an increased frequency of complications. Although there are reports of various complications of long-term indwelling ureteral stents, a renocolic fistula secondary to a perinephric abscess resulting from an indwelling u...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee SW,Kim JH

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis A virus (HAV) has been the leading cause of viral hepatitis in Korea since the 2000s. We aimed to describe the current status and regional differences in hepatitis A incidence. We studied the total number of hepatitis A cases reported to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Na...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Moon S,Han JH,Bae GR,Cho E,Kim B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This observational study aimed at evaluating recent superwarfarin intoxication of Korean patients. Ten patients were diagnosed as or highly suspicious for superwarfarin intoxication. Case report forms described by attending hematologists of the patients were collected and analyzed. Bleeding symptoms were varied among ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Hong J,Yhim HY,Bang SM,Bae SH,Yuh YJ,Yoon SS,Yoon HJ,Kim ST,Chi HS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop an objective and scientific method to evaluate the brain injured and brain diseased persons with motor dysfunction, American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment was used as an exemplar. After the motor dysfunction due to brain injury or brain disease was confirmed, active ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Rah UW,Baik JS,Jang SH,Park DS,Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the increasing use of the rectal balloon in prostate cancer radiotherapy, many issues still remain to be verified objectively including its positional reproducibility and relevance to treatment morbidity. We have developed a custom rectal balloon that has a scale indicating the depth of insertion and dilates s...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Cho JH,Lee CG,Kang DR,Kim J,Lee S,Suh CO,Seong J,Suh YG,Lee I,Kim GE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was done to determine whether recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) treatment could attenuate hyperoxia-induced lung injury, and if so, whether this protective effect is mediated by the down-modulation of inflammation in neonatal rats. Newborn Sprague Dawley rat pups were subjected to 14 days of hyperoxi...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee JH,Sung DK,Koo SH,Shin BK,Hong YS,Son CS,Lee JW,Chang YS,Park WS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-yr-old female was admitted to our hospital with fever, seizure, and cervical lymphadenopathy. Laboratory data showed pancytopenia, elevation of serum transaminase, lactate dehydrogenase, triglyceride, and ferritin levels. Lymph node biopsy revealed features of Kikuchi's disease and there were signs of histiocytos...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim YM,Lee YJ,Nam SO,Park SE,Kim JY,Lee EY

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1) A beta agonist stimulated Na+ transport and decreased the intracellular Cl concentration ([Cl]c) associated with cell shrinkage via an increase in cytosolic cAMP level by activating adenylate cyclase in rat fetal distal lung epithelial (FDLE) cells. 2) Lowering [Cl-]c activated a 28-pS nonselective cation (NSC) cha...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Marunaka Y,Niisato N,Ito Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report our experience in 13 patients who underwent transcatheter closure of Fontan fenestration with the Cook detachable coils. These patients underwent the extracardiac type Fontan operation with a short conduit fenestration (n=7) or lateral tunnel type with a punch-hole fenestration (n=6). Fenestration closure wa...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim SH,Kang IS,Huh J,Lee HJ,Yang JH,Jun TG

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus (AdV) can cause severe pneumonia in non-immunocompromised host, but limited data exist on the distinctive characteristics of AdV pneumonia in non-immunocompromised patients. We evaluated distinctive clinico-laboratory and radiological characteristics and outcomes of AdV pneumonia (n = 179), compared with no...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoon H,Jhun BW,Kim H,Yoo H,Park SB

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are potent antigen-presenting cells. OK432 (Picibanil) was introduced as a potent stimulator of DC maturation in combination with prostaglandin-E(2) and interferon-alpha. We compared the efficacy of a DC-prostate cancer vaccine using early-mature DCs stimulated with OK432, PGE2 and INF-alpha (OPA...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoo C,Do HA,Jeong IG,Park H,Hwang JJ,Hong JH,Cho JS,Choo MS,Ahn H,Kim CS

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:With the ongoing novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the number of individuals that need to be tested for COVID-19 has been rapidly increasing. A walk-through (WT) screening center using negative pressure booths that is inspired by the biosafety cabinet has been designed and implemented in Korea for ea...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim SI,Lee JY

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently reports on toxocariasis are increasing by serodiagnosis in Korea. A previously healthy 17-yr-old boy complained of headache, fever, dyspnea, and anorexia. He showed symptoms and signs of eosinophilic meningitis with involvement of the lungs and liver. Specific IgG antibody to Toxocara canis larval antigen was...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Noh Y,Hong ST,Yun JY,Park HK,Oh JH,Kim YE,Jeon BS

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer ranks second or third to uterine cervix cancer and stomach cancer as a cause of death in women, and as a common site of primary cancer. The large difference in its incidence between Westernized and non-Westernized countries is remarkable. There is a linear increase with age that is observed in Western co...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoo KY,Kang D,Park SK,Kim SU,Kim SU,Shin A,Yoon H,Ahn SH,Noh DY,Choe KJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapid aging of the population, Korea introduced public long-term care insurance for older people in 2008. The long-term care insurance was designed as a separate scheme from the national health insurance, with eligibility qualifications and the certification process based on functional disability, benefits an...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kang IO,Park CY,Lee Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

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：:This study evaluated the value of procalcitonin (PCT) levels in pleural effusion to differentiate the etiology of parapneumonic effusion (PPE). Forty-one consecutive PPE patients were enrolled and were divided into bacterial and non-bacterial PPE. Blood and pleural effusion samples were collected for PCT measurement o...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Ko YC,Wu WP,Hsu CS,Dai MP,Ou CC,Kao CH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) had been a rare and unusual vascular tumor until a recent epidemic of a disseminated and fulminant form of KS in AIDS patients. Infectious agents have been suspected of causing KS, and recently partial genomic DNA sequences of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) have been identified in AIDS-associated KS ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kang GH,Kwon GY,Kim CW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In Korea, the incidence of varicella has increased despite the introduction of a universal one-dose vaccination for children aged 12-15 months in 2005. A previous study demonstrated that the vaccine effectiveness was insufficient to prevent against varicella. We assessed the effect of the varicella vaccinati...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee YH,Choe YJ,Cho SI,Park H,Bang JH,Lee JK

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that gastric mucosal injury induces adaptive changes in DNA methylation. In this study, the methylation status of the key tissue-specific genes in normal gastric mucosa of healthy individuals and cancer patients was evaluated. The methylation-variable sites of 14 genes, including ulcer-healing...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Hong SJ,Oh JH,Jung YC,Kim YH,Kim SJ,Kang SJ,Seo EJ,Choi SW,Kang MI,Rhyu MG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) are loops of DNA which occur in the nucleoli of cells and which possess ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. The numbers and/or configurations of NORs have been thought to be related to cellular activities. To assess the applicability of NORs associated protein (Ag-NORs) in the field of diagn...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim I,Park SH,Paik SY

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase play a key role in the maintenance of telomere length and chromosome integrity. We have evaluated the association between telomerase activity and the risk of lung cancer in peripheral blood. Telomerase activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells was measured by a PCR-designed telomeric repeat amplificati...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Jeon HS,Choi JE,Jung DK,Choi YY,Kang HG,Lee WK,Yoo SS,Lim JO,Park JY

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, genetic variants in the WNT signaling pathway have been reported to affect the survival outcome of Caucasian patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We therefore attempted to determine whether these same WNT signaling pathway gene variants had similar impacts on the survival outcome of ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoo SS,Hong MJ,Choi JE,Lee JH,Baek SA,Lee WK,Lee SY,Lee SY,Lee J,Cha SI,Kim CH,Cho S,Park JY

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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：:Follicular variant papillary thyroid cancer (FVPTC) is the second most common subtype after conventional PTC. We compared ultrasonographic (US) features of FVPTC to those of conventional PTC according to tumor size. We reviewed US findings, pathologic reports, and medical charts of 249 PTC patients with surgically pro...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Jeon EJ,Jeong YJ,Park SH,Cho CH,Shon HS,Jung ED

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00