• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.921-929
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• 2011

We measured experimentally the properties of fluid dynamics, velocity fields, and the pressure, around stenotic obstruction located inside a circular channel structure. Particle image velocimetry system was employed to obtain velocity fields at the central section of the circular channel in the streamwise direction. The stenosis model used was made of acrylic material with different stenotic aspect ratios. The working fluid was water and it was returned by a centrifugal pump system. Pressure measurements were carried out to validate the effect of a narrow passageway. Results showed that the acceleration of gap flow through stenotic obstruction and the pressure drop in the recirculation regime behind the stenosis model can be observed.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.576-580
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• 1994

For 26 months since August 1991, 10 consecutive patients with congenital left ventricular outflow tract obstruction underwent corrective surgery in Pusan Paik Hospital. Their ages ranged from 2 to 18 years. There were 6 male and 4 female patients. According to stenotic site, obstruction were classified into supravalvular [n = 5], subvalvular [n = 4], valvular stenosis [n = 1]. We have performed patch enlargement of ascending aorta [n = 2], supravalvular membrane resection and patch enlargement of ascending aorta [n = 3], subvalvular membrane resection [n = 2], subvalvular membrane resection and left ventricular myectomy [n = 2] and aortic annuloplasty with Dacron patch and aortic valve replacement [n = 1]. Preoperative mean value of systolic pressure gradient were 85.0 $\pm$29.2mmHg[supravalvular], 70.0mmHg[valvular], 72.5 $\pm$ 22.5mmHg[subvalvular], and 78.5 $\pm$ 24.3mmHg[total]. Postoperative mean value of systolic pressure gradient were 31.0 $\pm$ 8.9mmHg[supravalvular], 0mmHg[valvular], 15.0 $\pm$ 10.8mmHg[subvalvular], and 21.5 $\pm$ 13.9mmHg[total]. Postoperative systolic pressure gradient was decreased significantly[p = 0.001]. Postoperative course and short-term follow up results were good except one case of transient heart failure.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.278-283
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• 2004

저자들은 이전에 건강했던 여아에서 갑작스런 복통과 담즙성 구토 증세를 보여 단순 복부 방사선 소견에서 소장 폐쇄 소견과 소장 조영술을 시행하여 협착 부위를 확인하고 수술을 시행 후 게실 간막 띠에 의한 소장의 폐쇄를 관찰한 1례를 경험하였기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 1999

배경: 건삭보존 승모판 치환술이 승모판 폐쇄부전증에 있어서는 좌심실 기능의 개선 및 술후 합병증을 줄일 수 있다고 알려져 있으나 승모판 협착증에 있어서는 좌심실 유출로의 폐쇄나 기계판엽의 운동장애 없이 적당한 크기의 기계판막을 삽입할 수 없다는 점등으로 아직 논란의 대상이 되고 있다. 대상 및 방법: 본원에서는 5명의 승모판 협착증환자와 7명의 승모판 폐쇄부전증 환자를 대상으로, 융합된 교련의 절개, 두꺼워진 판첨을 얇게 박리하고, 전판첨을 전판륜으로부터 2 mm 정도에 절개를 가하고 전판첨 중앙부를 절제하여 판엽을 두 개의 분절로 분리하여 교련부에 재 부착함으로써 건삭 및 판첨을 판륜에 위치이동 하면서 승모판막 치환술을 시행하여 건삭 및 판륜의 연속성을 유지하였다. 결과: 술후 기계판엽의 운동장애나 판막주위누출, 좌심실 유출로의 폐쇄 등 합병증 및 수술 사망환자는 없었다. 결론: 결론적으로 건삭보존 승모판 치환술이 승모판 협착증에 있어서도 안전하고 효과적인 수술방법이라 할 수 있다

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.347-356
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• 1991

Endobronchial tuberculosis is a serious disase because it frequently leaves airway obstruction as the complication, and the treatment of airway obstruction is generally troublesome. In the tumorous type of endobonchial tuberculosis, the bronchial patency is partially or completely compromised with lymph node contents when the necrotic focus of the lymph node ruptures into the bronchial lumen to form a bronchoglandular fistula. To investigate the transition of endobronchial lesion and to evaluate the therapeutic role of bronchoscopic electrocautery in the tumorous type of endobronchial tuberculosis, we performed electrocautery in addition to the combination chemotherapy with steroid and anti-tuberculous drugs in two cases which had airway obstruction proximal to lobar bronchus with the impairment of pulmonary function. We also treated another two cases only with chemotherapy and we have followed up four cases over a 36-month period. In cases that bronchoscopic electrocautery was done, the bronchial patency was completely restored and the impairment of pulmonary function disappeared just after cautery and these effects have remained for 12 months or more. But in cases of medical treatment only, bronchial stenosis was inevitable as the tumorous type of endobronchial tuberculosis changed to the stenotic type with fibrosis. It can be concluded that bronchoscopic electrocautery can nip the occurence of bronchial stenosis in the bud when it is applied in addition to combination chemotherapy with steroid and antituberculous drugs in the tumorous type of endobronchial tuberculosis.

• International Journal of Vascular Biomedical Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2004

Catheters are used to measure translesional pressure gradients in the stenosed coronary arteries. Uses of catheters during coronary angioplasty cause flow obstructions. A narrowed flow cross section with catheter effectively introduced a tighter stenosis than the enlarged residual stenoses after balloon angiplasty. Catheters in blood vessels cause pressure gradient rise and blood flow drop during the measurements. In this study, three dimensional computer simulations are conducted to investigate the flow blockage effects due to the catheter obstructions during the coronary angioplasty. The computer simulation models are generated by the data, which are measured by coronary angiogram, and the blood is treated as non-Newtonian fluid. The velocity, pressure, and wall shear stress variations are observed for the estimate of damages of blood vessel. This study is also extended to investigate the effects of stenotic vessel size, and shape and catheter size and location.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.75-79
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• 1999

Budd-Chiari syndrome은 하공정맥에서 우심방으로의 혈류장애로 인한 간부전증이다. 본 증례의 남자 45세 환자는 1987년 선천적인 막의 하공정맥 폐쇄로 인한 하공정맥 폐색막 제거와 확장술을 자가심낭으로 이용하여 수술을 받았다. 술후 10년이 경과한 후 하공정맥이 재협착되어 비침습적인 방법인 Gianturco stent 확장술을 받았으나 치료적인 효과를 얻지 못하였다. 재수술은 Gore-Tex 인조 혈관의 일부를 오각형으로 재단하여 하공정맥의 협착 부위를 절개한후 부착 봉합후 손가락 두행지가 통과할수 있도록 확장하였다. 수술후 출혈이나 합병증없이 양호한 경과를 보였으며 항응고제 사용없이 수술 2주 경과후 퇴원 하였다. Gore-Tex 인조혈관을 일부 제단한 patch를 수술에 사용하여 좋은 결과를 얻었으며 Budd-Chiari syndrome의 재수술의 경우로 인공심폐기하에도 수술시야에 심한 출혈이 발생 하므로 신속하고 정확한 지혈 수기가 요구된다고 할수 있다.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2023

Purpose: Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic, idiopathic bowel disorder that can progress to partial or complete bowel obstruction. At present, there are no reliable diagnostic tests that can readily distinguish between acute inflammatory, purely fibrotic and mixed inflammatory and fibrotic. Our aim is to study the utility of contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in combination with shear wave elastography (SWE) to differentiate fibrotic from inflammatory strictures in children with obstructive CD of the terminal ileum. Methods: Twenty-five (19 male) children between 2016-2021 with CD of the terminal ileum were recruited into the study. Among these patients, 22 had CEUS kinetic measurements of tissue perfusion, including wash-in slope (dB/sec), peak intensity (dB), time to peak intensity (sec), area under the curve (AUC) (dB sec), and SWE. In total, 11 patients required surgery due to bowel obstruction. Histopathologic analysis was performed by a pathologist who was blinded to the CEUS and SWE test results. Results: Patients that underwent surgical resection had significantly higher mean area under the curve on CEUS compared to patients responsive to medical therapy (p=0.03). The AUC also correlated with the degree of hypertrophy and the percent fibrosis of the muscularis propria, as determined by histopathologic grading (p<0.01). There was no difference in the mean elastography measurements between these two patient groups. Conclusion: CEUS is a useful radiological technique that can help identify pediatric patients with medically refractory obstructive fibrotic strictures of the terminal ileum that should be considered for early surgical resection.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.280-287
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• 1986

Between March 1978 and August 1985, 29 cases at various congenital heart diseases were reoperated because of remnant shunt of residual anomalies at Seoul National University Hospital. They were consisted of 10 cases of Tetralogy, 4 simple VSD, 6 complicated VSD. 3 partial ECD, and 5 other rare congenital anomalies. The interval between the initial and the second procedure ranged from 1 day to 122 months [mean; 26.9 months]. In 4 cases of them, the second procedure was done during initial hospitalization within 3 weeks post-operatively. The primary operation intended to be corrective surgery except four whose primary operation was palliative or exploratory one even though it was done with extracorporeal circulation. The indication for second operation was mainly residual shunt or valvular obstruction due to patch detachment or inadequate relief of stenotic lesion. Others were paravalvular leak, valvuloplasty failure, prosthetic valve failure, and inadequate primary diagnosis. Four patients were dead [14.3%]; three complicated VSD`s and one Tetralogy. There were 7 cases of nonfatal complication with subsequent improvement except one [diffuse cerebral dysfunction].

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.381-388
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• 1984

Cor triatriatum is rare congenital cardiac anomaly first described by Church in 1868. The anomaly consists of an abnormal partitioning of the left atrium by a fibromuscular membrane that divides the atrium into an upper chamber, which receives the pulmonary veins, and a lower chamber, which contains the atrial appendage and the mitral valve. The upper and lower chambers communicate through a stenotic fenestration in the membrane, which has the hemodynamic consequence of pulmonary venous obstruction. Recently we experienced cot triatriatum associated with partial anomalous pulmonary drainage to right atrium. The upper chamber was connected to right atrium through a sinus venous type of ASD and received left superior and both inferior pulmonary vein, whereas the lower chamber so called true left atrium communicated with right atrium through foramen ovale type of ASD, left atrial appendage and mitral orifice. And the anomalous membrane has no fenestrations which permit blood flow. The operation was made right atrial approach under the CPB. We excised completely the anomalous septum and reconstructed atrial septal defect with pericardial patch to drain the right upper pulmonary vein to the left atrium. The postoperative course has been good during follow up.