• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.785-791
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• 2000

Left ventricular dysfuction is common in immediate postoperative periods after surgical correction of heart diseases with chronic left ventricular volume overload. We speculated postoperative changes of left ventricular volume and unction in patients with patent ductus osus(PDA) who had underwent surgical repair at ages older than 16 years. Factors influencing postoperative left ventricular volume and function were also analyzed. Material and Method: From August 1989 to August 1999 thirty-siz adult patients with PDA 28 females and 8 males. were enrolled in this study. Their age ranged from 16 years to 57 years(mean :32 years). Types of surgical repair were division with primary closure in 22, division with patch closure in 6, internal obliteration using cardiopulmonary bypass in 4 and ligation in 4. Aortic clamping was combined during surgical repair in 22(61%) and cardiopulmonary bypass was used in 8(22%) Two-dimensional echocardiography studies were performed in 34(94%) preoperatively and in 25(66%) immediate postoperatively to assess postoperative changes of left ventricular internal dimensions. left ventricular volume and ejection fraction. Duration of postoperative follow-up ranged from 1 month to 99 months (mean:22 months) and 10 patients underwent 16 echocardiographic evaluation during this period Result : Preoperative and postoperative left ventricular systolic dimensions(LVIDs) were 42$\pm$8.0mm and 42$\pm$8.3mm left ventricular diastolic dimensions(LVIDd) were 64$\pm$10.0mm and 56$\pm$7.4mm left ventricular end systolic volumes(LVESV) were 62$\pm$19cc (z=1.87$\pm$0.06) and 59$\pm$24cc(z=1.78$\pm$0.08) left ventricular end diastolic volumes(LVEDL) were 169$\pm$40cc(z-1.17$\pm$0.1) and 112$\pm$29cc(z=0.85$\pm$0.1) and ejection fractions(EF) were 66$\pm$6.7% and 48$\pm$12.6% respectively. There were statistically significant differences between preoperative and postoperative values in LVDIDd(p=0.001) LVEDV(p=0.001) and EF(p=0.0001) while no significant difference is LVIDs and LVESV. Postoperative depression of ejcection fraction was significantly related with z-score of preoperative LVESV and LVEDV by univariateanalysis while LVEDV only was significant risk factor for postoperative LV dysfunction by multiple regressioin analysis ($\Delta$LVEF=-13.3-4.62$\times$LVEDV(z), p=0.001) During the follow-up periods ejection fractions become normalized in all except one patients. Conclusion ; Left ventricular function is usually deteriorated after the surgical correction of PDA in adult age and preoperative LVEDV is a major determinant of postoperative LV function.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.55-64
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• 1983

A hundred and eleven patients of mitral valvular heart disease, who were operated at Seoul National University Hospital, were analysed with echocardiogram before and after operation during the period from November 1979 to February 1982. Twenty-eight patients had mitral stenosis and eighty-three mitral regurgitation. In patients with mitral stenosis, right ventricular end-diastolic volume was in normal range at preoperative and postoperative period. But the left ventricular end-systolic volume was slightly increased preoperatively to 35.4mm and decreased to 33.5mm on immediate postoperative period and 32.5mm after a year later. The left ventricular end-diastolic volume was 50.5mm preoperatively and fell to 46.8mm postoperatively. Ejection fraction was normal preoperatively and postoperatively without changes. Left atrial size fell significantly from 50ram to 37.6mm at the time of late follow-up study. With mitral regurgitation, right ventricular end-diastolic volume was also normal preoperatively and postoperatively. The left ventricular end-systolic volume was increased to 41.9mm and decreased to 31.6mm postoperatively with statistic significance. Left ventricular end-diastolic volume fell from 58.5mm to 45.7mm significantly at the time of late follow-up period. Ejection fraction was also within normal range and had no changes postoperatively. Left atrial size fell from 54.8mm to 45.5mm on a year later [ p value less than 0.01 ]. When atrial fibrillation, the left atrial dimension was increased as 54.9mm compared with 46.8mm of no atrial fibrillation patients.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2022

The Cardiac Gated Blood Pool (GBP) scintigram, a nuclear medicine imaging, calculates the left ventricular Ejection Fraction (EF) by segmenting the left ventricle from the heart. However, in order to accurately segment the substructure of the heart, specialized knowledge of cardiac anatomy is required, and depending on the expert's processing, there may be a problem in which the left ventricular EF is calculated differently. In this study, using the DeepLabV3 architecture, GBP images were trained on 93 training data with a ResNet-50 backbone. Afterwards, the trained model was applied to 23 separate test sets of GBP to evaluate the reproducibility of the region of interest and left ventricular EF. Pixel accuracy, dice coefficient, and IoU for the region of interest were 99.32±0.20, 94.65±1.45, 89.89±2.62(%) at the diastolic phase, and 99.26±0.34, 90.16±4.19, and 82.33±6.69(%) at the systolic phase, respectively. Left ventricular EF was calculated to be an average of 60.37±7.32% in the ROI set by humans and 58.68±7.22% in the ROI set by the deep learning segmentation model. (p<0.05) The automated segmentation method using deep learning presented in this study similarly predicts the average human-set ROI and left ventricular EF when a random GBP image is an input. If the automatic segmentation method is developed and applied to the functional examination method that needs to set ROI in the field of cardiac scintigram in nuclear medicine in the future, it is expected to greatly contribute to improving the efficiency and accuracy of processing and analysis by nuclear medicine specialists.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1990년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 26-27 Oct. 1990
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• pp.570-574
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• 1990

Detection of left ventricular boundary for the functional analysis of LV(left ventricle)is obtained using automatic boundary detection algorithm based on dynamic programming method. This scheme reduces the edge searching time and ensures connective edge detection, since it does not require general edge operator, edge thresholding and linking process of other edge. detection methods. The left ventricular diastolic volume and systolic volume and systolic volume were computed after this automatic boundary detection, and these Volume data wm applied to analyze LV ejection fraction.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.43-50
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• 1985

With the improvement of hemodialysis, the course of the disease in patient with endstage renal disease has been clearly improved. Nevertheless, among several shortcomings to our present mode of renal replacement therapy, cardiovascular complications have been the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Several factors such as anemia, arteriovenous shunting of blood, intermittent extracorporeal circulation and hypertension may be contributing. But little is known about the quantitative cardiac hemodynamic characteristics occurred during hemodialysis. The purpose of this study is to observe the sequential hemodynamic changes before, during and after the hemodialysis and to investigate reliable parameters in the detection of ventricular dysfunction. In the present study, equilibrium radionuclide cardiac angiography was performed and left and right ventricular volume indices, ejection phase indices of both ventricular, performance were measured in the 16 stable patients with chronic renal failure treated with maintenance hemodialysis sequentially i.e. before, during (early and late phase) and after the hemodialysis. The results obtained were as follows; 1) The indices of the left ventricular function were not changed during the hemodialysis but increased after the hemodialysis. 2) The indices of the right ventricular function(EF, SVI) were significantly decreased in the early phase (15, 30 minutes after starting extracorporeal circulation) but recovered after the hemodialysis. 3) The ratio of right ventricular to left ventricular ejection fraction was significantly decreased in the early phase and the lung volume indices were significantly increased at the same phase. As a conclusion, hemodialysis improves left ventricular function maybe due to increased contractility, and effects on the right ventricular function maybe due to the increased lung volume in the early phase of hemodialysis.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제30권9호
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• pp.885-890
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• 1997

.저자들은 1994년 7월부터 1996년 6월까지 관상동맥우회 술을 시행한 환자 103명을 심실구축력 40%를 기준 으로 심실기능저하군 24명과 심실기능정상군 79명으로 분류하여 환자의 술전,수술변수 18개를 분석하였다. 분석결과 환자의 특성과 수술사망에 영향을 미치는 위험인자에 대해 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 술전 변수중 심비대(p=0.0012), 혈청 크레아티닌 이상(p=0.0166), IABP 실시(p=0.0096)는 기능저하군이 기능 정상군보다 유의하게 높은 빈도를 보였다 2. 수술변수중 기능저하군은 수술적응증에 있어서 심근경색후 협심증의 빈도가 많았고(p=0.00003), 내흉동맥 의 사용은 유의하게 적었다(p=0.00416). 3. 조기사망률은 기능저하군이 기능정상군보다 약간 높았으나 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 없었다(기능저하군 8.3%, 기능정상군 5.1%, p=0.5492). 4. 합병증발생률은 기능저하군 50%(12/24), 기능정상군 33%(79/25)로 두군간에 유의한 차이는 없었다(p=0.1007). 5. 심실기능정상군에서는 연령(고령)(p=0.041)이 수술후 조기사망에 유의한 위험인자로, 심실기능저하군에서 는 연령(p=0.018)외에도 술전 IAaP 실시(p=0.0036), 고콜레스테롤혈증(p=0.00 7), 응급수술(p=0.0036)이 유의 한 위험인자로 작용하였다. 이상의 결과를 통해 심실기능이 저하된 관상동맥질환 환자는 심실기능이 정상인 환자에 비해 많은 술후 조기사망의 위험인자를 갖고있으나.술후 조기사망률과 합병증 발생률은 두 군간에 유의한 차이를 보이지 않 음으로써 심실기능이 저하된 환자에 있어서도 증상의 개선과 장기생존률의 향상을 얻기 위하여 좀더 적극적인 관상동맥우회 술의 실시가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2011년도 추계학술논문집 1부
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• pp.170-173
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• 2011

Therapeutic hypothermia(TH) improves neurological outcomes and reduces mortality among survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Animal and human studies have shown that TH results in improved salvage of the myocardium, reduced infarct size, reduced left ventricular remodeling and better long-term left ventricular function in settings of regional myocardial ischemia. This study is to investigate the effect of TH on post-resuscitation myocardial dysfunction and survival time after cardiac arrest and resuscitation in a rat model of myocardial infarction (MI). Thoracotomies were performed in 10 Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 450-550 g. MI was induced by ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). Ninety min after LAD ligation, ventricular fibrillation induction and subsequent cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed before defibrillation attempts. Animals were randomized to two groups: a) Acute MI-Normothermia b) Acute MI-Hypothermia ($32^{\circ}C$ for 4 h). Myocardial functions, including cardiac output, left ventricular ejection fraction, and myocardial performance index were measured echocardiographically together with duration of survival. Ejection fraction, cardiac output and myocardial performance index were $54.74{\pm}9.16$, $89.00{\pm}8.89$, $1.30{\pm}0.09$ respectively and significantly better in the TH group than those of the normothermic group at the first 4 h after resuscitation($32.20{\pm}1.85$,$41.60{\pm}8.62$,$1.77{\pm}0.19$)(p=0.00). The survival time of the hypothermic group ($31.8{\pm}14.8$ h) was greater than that of the normothermic group($12.3{\pm}6.5$ h, p<0.05). This study suggested that TH attenuated post resuscitation myocardial dysfunction in acute MI and would be a potential strategy in post resuscitation care.

• Korean Circulation Journal
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• 제48권12호
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• pp.1148-1156
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• 2018

Background and Objectives: It is controversial that decreased left ventricular function could predict poststroke outcomes. The purpose of this study is to elucidate whether left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) can predict cardiovascular events and mortality in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) without atrial fibrillation (AF) and coronary heart disease (CHD). Methods: Transthoracic echocardiography was conducted consecutively in patients with AIS or transient ischemic attack at Soonchunhyang University Hospital between January 2008 and July 2016. The clinical data and echocardiographic LVEF of 1,465 patients were reviewed after excluding AF and CHD. Poststroke disability, major adverse cardiac events (MACE; nonfatal stroke, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular death) and all-cause mortality during 1 year after index stroke were prospectively captured. Cox proportional hazards regressions analysis were applied adjusting traditional risk factors and potential determinants. Results: The mean follow-up time was $259.9{\pm}148.8days$ with a total of 29 non-fatal strokes, 3 myocardial infarctions, 33 cardiovascular deaths, and 53 all-cause mortality. The cumulative incidence of MACE and all-cause mortality were significantly higher in the lowest LVEF (<55) group compared with the others (p=0.022 and 0.009). In prediction models, LVEF (per 10%) had hazards ratios of 0.54 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.36-0.80, p=0.002) for MACE and 0.61 (95% CI, 0.39-0.97, p=0.037) for all-cause mortality. Conclusions: LVEF could be an independent predictor of cardiovascular events and mortality after AIS in the absence of AF and CHD.

• Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.191-199
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• 2023

BACKGROUND: Assessment of left ventricular (LV) function plays a pivotal role in the management of patients with valvular heart disease, including those caused by rheumatic heart disease. Noninvasive LV pressure-strain loop analysis is emerging as a new echocardiographic method to evaluate global LV systolic function, integrating longitudinal strain by speckle-tracking analysis and noninvasively measured blood pressure to estimate myocardial work. The aim of this study was to characterize global LV myocardial work efficiency in patients with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS) with preserved ejection fraction (EF). METHODS: We retrospectively included adult patients with severe rheumatic MS with preserved EF (> 50%) and sinus rhythm. Healthy individuals without structural heart disease were included as a control group. Global LV myocardial work efficiency was estimated with a proprietary algorithm from speckle-tracking strain analyses, as well as noninvasive blood pressure measurements. RESULTS: A total of 45 individuals with isolated severe rheumatic MS with sinus rhythm and 45 healthy individuals were included. In healthy individuals without structural heart disease, the mean global LV myocardial work efficiency was 96% (standard deviation [SD], 2), Compared with healthy individuals, median global LV myocardial work efficiency was significantly worse in MS patients (89%; SD, 4; p < 0.001) although the LVEF was similar. CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with isolated severe rheumatic MS and preserved EF, had global LV myocardial work efficiencies lower than normal controls.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.901-908
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• 2001

배경 : 관상동맥 질환 환자에게 시행되는 관상동맥 우회술의 수술 성적이 많이 향상되었으나, 아직도 좌심실기능부전이 중등도 이상으로 심한 환자에서의 관상동맥 우회술은 합병증과 사망률이 비교적 높다. 최근 수술기법 및 심근보호법의 발달로 이러한 고위험군의 환자에게 내과적 보존 치료보다는 외과적 재혈관화가 환자의 증상 개선과 장기 생존율을 향상시킨다고 한다. 대상 및 방법 : 이에 저자는 1995년 1월부터 1999년 3월까지 시행한 관상동맥 우회술 843예 가운데 수술 전 좌심실 박출계수가 30% 이하인 환자 31예(4.1%)의 임상자료를 후향적으로 조사하고 수술 전후 측정한 심장 초음파상의 심박출 계수의 변화를 비교 분석하였다. 환자의 연령은 41세에서 72세 사이로 평균 60.7$\pm$2.2세였고, 남자 26예, 여자 5예였다. 수술전 위험인자로 심근경색의 과거력이 있었던 경우가 30예로 대부분이었으며, Thallium heart scan 검사에서 불가역인 심근 손상이 7예였다. 관상동맥 조영술에서 3개 혈관 병변이 26, Rentrop 분류 1도가 16례로 가장 많았다. 관상동맥 우회술 동안에 이식된 혈관의 수는 평균 4.88$\pm$0.8 개/명이었고, 전 예에서 복재정맥을 사용하였으며 내흉동맥을 동시에 사용한 경우는 20예였다 대동맥 차단 및 심실세동 시간은 평균 77.9$\pm$1.6분 이었고 인공 심폐기 가동시간은 평균 244.7$\pm$3.7분 이였으며, 관상동맥 우회술과 동시에 시행된 술식으로는 좌심실류 제거술 2예, 승모판막 성형술 2예, 대동맥 판막 치환술 1예였다. 술후 합병증은 부정맥 3예, 출혈 2예, 흉골 지연 봉합 1예였고 수술 전후의 대동맥내 풍선펌프의 사용이 11예였으며, 2예에서 사망하여 수술 사망률은 6.5%이었다. 수술 후 흉통 및 증상의 개선을 보인 경우는 29예였고 수술 후 시행한 심초음파 검사상 좌심실 박출 계수는 평균 38.5$\pm$11.6%로 술전 평균 측정치 25.3$\pm$2.3%에 비해 유의하게 증가되었다(p 0.001). 환자들의 평균 추적기간은 25.3$\pm$5.6개월이었다. 결론 : 좌심실 기능이 저하된 관상동맥 질환 환자에서 관상동맥 우회술을 시행하여 비교적 만족할 만한 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며, 추후 장기 추적 조사가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.