• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.785-788
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• 1996

간농양에 이은 급성 화농성 심낭염은 드문 질환이다. 급성화농성 심낭염은 적절한 치료가 이루어지지 않을 경우 사망율이 매우 높은 위 험한 질환이다. 환자는 32세 남자 환자로 발열, 오한, 상복부동통 및 호흡곤란을 주소로 응급실로 내원 하였다. 단순 흉부사진상 심비대의 소견을 보이고 있었으며, 복부초음파상 간좌엽에 종괴가 있었다. 심초음파상 임박 심장압진의 소견을 보이고 있었다. 응급으로 횡격막천공을 통해 간농양을 배농시켰고 심낭절개술을 시 행하였다. 심낭은 비후되어 두꺼워져 있었고 600m1의 악취가 나는 농액과 괴사조직들이 배액되었다. 섬유소응괴(abrinclot)가심근과유착이 있었다 조직학적 검사상심낭은급성 염증소견과 미세한 괴사 소견을 보이고 있었고, 균배양검사상 혈액과 배농액 에서 모두 Escherichia coli가 나왔다. 환자는 항생제 치료 받고 4주만에 퇴원 했고 심초음파상 약간의 교착성 심낭염의 소견을 보였다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.63-68
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• 1976

Cardiac injury is a relatively uncommon entity, which calls for emergency surgical treatment. During the period from 1974 up to 1975, three cases of stab wound of the heart were treated in Department of Thoracic Surgery. Capital Armed Forces General Hospital among 70 chest injury cases. All of the cases had stab wounds on the heart by knife. Injured sites were found in two cases on the right ventricle, and one case on the right atrium and intrapericardial inferior vena cava. All patients were treated by thoracotomized and sutured with 000 silk for myocardial stab wounds. One of these died of cerebral hypoxia, who was resuscitated from cardiac arrest during operation. Pericardial tamponade signs were not definite except one case.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.135-137
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• 2013

An atrial septal defect is the most common type of congenital heart disease among adults. Surgical repair or percutaneous closure of the defect is the treatment options. Even though percutaneous closure seems to be less risky than surgical repair, it may result in fatal complications like device embolism, cardiac perforation and tamponade. Herein we report a case of the embolism of a device into the pulmonary artery after one hour of percutaneous closure in which the embolized device was surgically removed and the defect was closed with a pericardial patch.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.1398-1400
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• 1996

심장은 흉골골절시 흉골 바로 밑에 위치한 해부학적 특성때문에 손상을 받기 쉽다. 또한 이러한손상에 의하여 심장이 파열되는 경우는 드물지만, 만일 이런 경우가 발생하였을 때에는 생존의 가능성은 낮다. 본 흉부외과학교실에서는 흉골골절에 의하여 심장이 파열되어 심장 압전 소견이 있어 체외순환 없이 응급개흉술을 시행하여 일차 봉합술로 치료하여 생존한 1례를 치험하였다. 심장파열이 의심되는 환자가 병원에 도착하였을때는 즉각적으로 진단을 하자마자 바로 응급수술을 하면 생명을 구할 가능성이 높다고 사료된다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.260-267
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• 1981

Left atrial myxoma is a rare disease and its recurrence is reported to be always possible whenever primary excision is incomplete. Cardiac Myxoma is rare disease of the heart, and it has a little chance of recurrence. We experienced a patient of recurrent left atrial myxoma who was 31 years old, had been gotten excision of Lt. atrial myxoma when she was 28 years of her age. She was gotten mitral valve replacement simultaneously during 2nd operation with difficulty. So we report this case with the review of the literatures. [KTCS 1981;3:260-267]Surgical Treatment of Acute Pyogenic Pericarditis followed the Sepsis Ki Woo Shin, M.D.,* Ho Wan Lee, M.D.* and Dong Jun Lee, M.D.* Two cases of acute pyogenic pericarditis are, one case, 12-year-old male patient, followed the bacteremia of pneumonia and other case, 9 year old female patient, followed the bacteremia of osteomyelitis. After the confirmed diagnosis by pericardial aspiration, the emergency pericardial window was made to relief the severe cardiogenic symptoms. The general symptoms were improved immediately, but 40 days and 15 days after pericardiostomy, in each case, the sign and symptoms of cardiac compression were seen with recurrent cardiac tamponade. Pericardiectomy with median sternotomy was performed in each case and thereafter the patients were discharged without any problems.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.173-178
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• 1977

A 51 year old man was admitted to the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Department of Kyungpook University Hospital on April 7, 1976, with chief complaints of orthopnea and the chest pain for about 3 months. Physical examination showed narrow pulse pressure, puffy face, engorged neck veins at sitting position, distant heart sound, enlarged liver and edematous upper extremities. The chest roentgenogram demonstrated markedly enlarged cardiac silhouette. Low voltage and the low to diphagic T`s were noted on the electrocardiogram. Paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia was developed intermittently and was subsided spontaneously. Repeated pericardiocentesis were performed each of which yielded from 100 to 300ml. but intractable cardiac failure was progressed. The bacteriology and cytology of the pericardial fluid were not revealed any specific findings. The pericardiectomy was performed to release the intractable cardiac tamponade. Pericardium was found to be thickened and cardiac constriction was noted. The thickened pericardium was easily removed. A large hen`s egg sized dark blue tumor mass occupied the anterior wall of the right atrium and two thumb tip sized pearl gray tumors were placed at the just below portion of the main pulmonary artery. The biopsy report revealed primary fibrosarcoma of the heart. The patient was improved from the symptoms of the cardiac failure during the postoperative course.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.67-73
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• 1989

Forty two patients with chronic constrictive pericarditis, who were admitted to the Yonsei University College of medicine over a period of 18 years from January, 1970 to August, 1988, were analyzed retrospectively. Mean age of the patient was 33.5 year ranging from 6.8 to 60 years old. Male to female ratio was 1.3 to 1. Twenty-one cases [50%] were tuberculous origin [based on either associated pulmonary tuberculosis and/or caseous necrosis in thickened pericardial specimen] and 17 cases [40.5%] were idiopathic [non specific chronic inflammatory change was considered to be idiopathic]. Dyspnea on exertion was evident in 30 cases [71.4%] and abdominal distention in 21 cases [50%]. On physical examination, hepatomegaly [83.3%], neck vein distention [54.8%], distant heart sound [47.6%] and ascites were found. Thirty-nine patients showed low voltage of QRS and/or T wave flattening or inversion on EKG. Thirty-one cases had undergone cardiac catheterization which showed data compatible with chronic constrictive pericarditis. Midsternostomy group [n=15] had shown the most remarkable CVP decline [12.20 mmHg] as compared with bilateral submammary incision group [n=25, 8.96 mmHg] and left thoracotomy group [n=2, 7.75 mmHg] but difference was not significant statistically There was four early death among 42 patients [9.5%] including 3 cases of left ventricular failure and one cardiac tamponade. Main postoperative complications were wound infection [6 cases] and arrhythmia [3 cases]. Follow-up of 24 patients [mean; 55.3 months, ranging from 2 months to 155 months] revealed good functional status.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제26권7호
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• pp.526-531
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• 1993

Sixty-one consecutive patients with coronary artery bypass graft for myocardial revascularization were retrospectively reviewed to analyze various pattern of postoperative complication and death during hospital stay from Nov. 1988 to Oct. 1992. Fortytwo of the patients were male and nineteen female. The mean age was 56 and 51 years in male and female. Preoperative diagnosises were unstable angina in 14 of patients, stable angina in 28, postmyocardial infarction state in 15, and state of failed percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in 4. 141 stenosed coronary arteries were bypassed with use of 20 pedicled internal mammary artery and 124 reversed saphenous vein grafts. Postoperative complications and perioperative death were as follows: 1. Of 61 patients undergoing operation, peri and postoperative over all complication occured in 15 patients [ 25% ]; newly developed myocardial infarction in 4, intractable cardiac arrhythmia including atrial fibrillation and frequent ventricular premature contraction in 3, bleeding from gastrointestinal tract in 2, persistent vegetative state as a sequele of brain hypoxia in 1, wound necrosis in 1, left hemidiaphragmatic palsy in 3 and poor blood flow through graft in 2. 2. Operative mortality was 8%[5 patients]. 3 out of these died in operating room; 1 patient by bleeding from rupture of calcified aortic wall, 1 by air embolism through left atrial vent catheter, 1 by low cardiac output syndrome. 2 patients died during hospital stay; 1 by acute respiratory distress syndrome with multiuple organ failure, 1 by brain death after delayed diagnosis of pericardial tamponade.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.377-379
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• 2011

Chylopericardium is a rare disease entity characterized by the accumulation of chylous fluid in the pericardial sac. It usually arises from mediastinal neoplasms, thrombosis of the subclavian vein, tuberculosis, nonsurgical trauma, thoracic or cardiac surgery. The spectrum of symptoms for chylopericardium varies from an incidental finding of cardiomegaly to dyspnea, upper abdominal discomfort, cough, chest pain, palpitation, fatigue. However, most of the patients are asymptomatic. The main purpose of treatment of chylopericardium is the prevention of cardiac tamponade and prevention of metabolic, nutritional, and immunological compromise due to chyle leak. Here, we report a case of chylopercardium secondary to lymphangiomyoma with review of the literature.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.376-381
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• 2004

원발성 심장 림프종은 원발성 심장 종양의 1.3%를 차지하는 드문 악성 종양으로, 절외성 림프종(Extronodal Lymphoma)의 한 형태로 심장 및 심장막에 발생한다. 급격히 진행하는 심부전, 부정맥, 심낭 삼출 및 심장 압전 등의 증상이 나타난다. 원발성 심장 림프종의 진단은 심초음파 및 흉부 단층촬영 및 자기공명영상 등이 이용되며, 종양에 대한 경정맥하 조직 생검과 심낭 삼출액의 세포학적 및 면역생화학 검사로 확진할 수 있다 원발성 심장 림프종은 진단이 지연되거나, 진단 시 이미 장기 내침범으로 인한 진행된 단계로 예후가 불량하다 따라서 조기 진단과 완전한 심장 종양의 절제가 필요하며, 수술 후 생존율 개선을 위해 적극적인 전신 항암 요법 및 방사선 요법이 보강요법으로 시행되어야 한다. 본 증례에서는 우심실 유입로와 방실구에 종괴의 광범위한 침윤이 있었고, 우심방 내로 침범이 되어 있어 수술적 절제가 불가능하였다. 종괴의 조직생검으로 확진 후 항암요법 및 방사선요법으로 증상의 개선 및 종괴의 크기 감소 소견을 보였다. 저자들은 우심실에서 발생하여 우심방을 침범한 원발성 심장 비호지킨써 림프종을 경험하였으며 그 조기 결과를 문헌고찰과 함께 보고한다.