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Effect of Dietary Fat on Metabolism of Albino rats (식이내 지방이 흰쥐의 체내대사에 미치는 영향)

  • Hong, Yang-Ja;Shin, Hyun-Hee
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 1979
  • The present study was undertaken to determine the metabolic effect of various levels and kinds of fat in the diet. Body lipid metabolism at different period of rat's life was also studied by sacrificing rats and collecting samples initially, at second and fourth week of experimental period. Body weight, FER, PER were low in the group fed 30% fat diet. The weight of internal organ and epididymal fat pad was low in high fat diet group. The level of total serum cholesterol of rats in butter group showed higher than that of soybean oil group when the level of dietary fat content was same. The ratio of total cholesterol and total lipid in serum of rats in butter group appear to be higher than that of soybean oil group.

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An Application of Blood Clearance Rate of Colloidal $^{198}Au$ to the Interpretation of Photoscan of Liver (교양(膠樣) $^{198}$금(金) 혈액제거율검사(血液除去率檢査)의 간주사판독(肝走査判讀)에의 응용(應用))

  • Bahk, Yong-Whee
    • 대한핵의학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1966.11a
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    • pp.93.3-94
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    • 1966
  • The fact that colloidal particulates of rdaiogold are mainly and effectively eliminated from the blood stream by phagocytic activity of Kupffer's cells of the liver has been successfully adopted to the diagnosis if certain liver diseases and the same principle has opened a new avenue to the study of the organ by obtaining scan. Indeed, the latter procedure has been widely used for the detection of space-occupying lesions of cirrhosis of the liver. Nevertheless problem of differential diagnosis of monochromatic "cold" areas or "mottling" of the internal structure on the scan limited the value of this diagnostic modality. The present investigation is aimed at improving intepretation of photoscan findings with the aid of blood clearance rate of the intravenously injected colloidal $^{198}Au$.

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Critical illness neuromyopathy

  • Park, Soo-Hyun;Jeong, Yoon-Jung;Kim, Nam-Hee
    • Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.61-66
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    • 2020
  • Critical illness neuromyopathy (CINM) is a common but frequently underdiagnosed condition in critically ill patients that contributes to ventilator weaning failure and limb weakness in intensive care unit (ICU). CINM is subdivided into critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy, and the occurrence of these conditions in the ICU is associated with multiple organ failure due to sepsis or certain medications. CINM survivors might have persistent functional disabilities and a poor quality of life. This situation demonstrates the need for efforts to minimize or prevent CINM in critically ill patients. This article provides a current overview of CINM and the associated clinical strategies.

Three dimension rendering techniques in multiplanar medical images (다층의학영상의 3차원적 표현기법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, D.W.;Song, C.H.;Cha, E.J.;Lee, T.S.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1996 no.05
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    • pp.271-274
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    • 1996
  • Shell rendering technique, which is the combined technique of surface rendering and volume rendering, was realized on workstation. By applying it to colon data acquired by CT, its validity was shown. In addition perspective projection coordinate was used for rendering the internal surface of organ and its reality was shown to be improved. This result can be use as the essential technique of virtual endoscope which is the recent hot topic in three dimensional medical imaging.

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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome With Alveolar Hemorrhage due to Strongyloidiasis Hyperinfection in an Older Patient

  • Kim, Eun Jin
    • Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.200-203
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    • 2018
  • Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal nematode that occurs sporadically in temperate areas like Korea. People who are in the immunosuppressed state, over the age of 65 or under the corticosteroid therapy are at risk for developing Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with alveolar hemorrhage is a rare presentation of Strongyloides hyperinfection. A 78-year-old man had been irregularly injected corticosteroid on his knees, but did not have any immunosuppressive disease. He was initially diagnosed with ARDS and septic shock. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid was bloody and its cytology revealed helminthic larvae identified as S. stercoralis. Results of Cytomegalovirus polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Pneumocystis jirovecii PCR, and Aspergillus antigen testing of the BAL fluid were positive. The clinical progress quickly deteriorated with multiple organ failure, shock and arrhythmia, so he finally died. This is a rare case of ARDS in an older patient without any known immunosuppressive conditions, with alveolar hemorrhage and S. stercoralis being found via BAL.

Ocular manifestations in a patient with de novo Fabry disease

  • Lee, You Hyun;Shim, Kyu Young;Park, Sung Bae;Kim, Yu Cheol
    • Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.232-235
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    • 2018
  • Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked, recessively inherited, rare, progressive, disorder of glycosphingolipid metabolism affecting multiple organs resulting in organ dysfunction. It is rare to find only one FD affected subject with a de novo mutation. Here we report a case of a 41-year-old Asian male diagnosed with de novo FD. Comprehensive ophthalmological evaluation was performed using slit lamp, color fundus photography, optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography, and indocyanine green angiography. On slit lamp examination, cornea verticillata and slightly tortuous, and aneurysmal dilatation of inferior bulbar conjunctival vessels were observed. Other imaging modalities showed unremarkable findings. Cornea verticillata and inferior bulbar conjunctival vascular abnormalities may be detected earlier than other ocular abnormalities in de novo FDs like hereditary FDs.

Multiple Cavernous Hemangiomas of the Posterior Mediastinum, Lung, and Liver: A Case Report

  • Lee, Jang Hoon;Lee, Young Uk;Kang, Hee Joon
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.547-550
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    • 2021
  • A 71-year-old male patient visited Yeungnam University Hospital with abnormal chest computed tomography (CT) findings. Chest CT revealed multiple lung nodules and a posterior mediastinal tumor, the diagnosis of which was confirmed surgically. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen showed multiple small nodules, which were diagnosed as cavernous hemangioma in the liver based on the pathology results of the mediastinal and lung masses in combination with MRI findings. Cavernous hemangiomas are benign tumors that can occur throughout the body, mainly in the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The liver is the most common internal organ containing hemangiomas, whereas they are very rarely found in the lungs or mediastinum.

An Effective WSSENet-Based Similarity Retrieval Method of Large Lung CT Image Databases

  • Zhuang, Yi;Chen, Shuai;Jiang, Nan;Hu, Hua
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.2359-2376
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    • 2022
  • With the exponential growth of medical image big data represented by high-resolution CT images(CTI), the high-resolution CTI data is of great importance for clinical research and diagnosis. The paper takes lung CTI as an example to study. Retrieving answer CTIs similar to the input one from the large-scale lung CTI database can effectively assist physicians to diagnose. Compared with the conventional content-based image retrieval(CBIR) methods, the CBIR for lung CTIs demands higher retrieval accuracy in both the contour shape and the internal details of the organ. In traditional supervised deep learning networks, the learning of the network relies on the labeling of CTIs which is a very time-consuming task. To address this issue, the paper proposes a Weakly Supervised Similarity Evaluation Network (WSSENet) for efficiently support similarity analysis of lung CTIs. We conducted extensive experiments to verify the effectiveness of the WSSENet based on which the CBIR is performed.

Development of Multi-Organ Segmentation Model for Support Abdominal Disease Diagnosis (복부질환 진단 지원을 위한 다중 장기 분할 모델 개발)

  • Si-Hyeong Noh;Dong-Wook Lim;Chungsub Lee;Tae-Hoon Kim;Chul Park;Chang-Won Jeong
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2023.05a
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    • pp.546-548
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    • 2023
  • 인공지능 기술을 도입한 의료분야에서 진단 및 예측을 위한 관련 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 특히, 인공지능 기술 적용에 가장 많이 활용되고 있는 의료영상을 기반으로 하는 질환에 관한 진단 연구는 매우 복잡한 과정이 필요한 질환의 진단에 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 복부 장기들의 분할은 환자의 질환 진단 지원 및 복강경등의 수술 지원에 매우 중요한 부분을 차지한다. 본 논문에서는 의료영상을 통해 13가지 복부 장기들을 분할하는 모델을 만들고 그 결과를 보인다. 본 논문에서 제안한 모델을 통해 13가지 복부 장기에 대한 분할로 영상분석을 통해 진단 지원이 가능할 것으로 기대한다.

Abdominal Wall Hernias Following High-intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy: Three Case Reports

  • Woo Yeon Han;Yeongsong Kim;Pyeong Hwa Kim;Eun Key Kim
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.363-366
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    • 2024
  • Although many studies reported the safety and efficacy of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy, there are still worries about internal organ injury. However, reports of abdominal wall hernias after HIFU therapy are rare. We present three cases of abdominal wall hernias without skin injury after HIFU therapy in uterine adenomyosis or fibroids. The diagnosis was often delayed because of vague symptoms, inadequate clinical suspicion, and delayed proper image studies. Abdominal wall hernia should be recognized as a possible complication after HIFU and be suspected when the patient presents with unordinary abdominal swelling and/or pain that lasts for more than a few months after the procedure.