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Thin Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease Without Glomerular IgA Deposition in Children
ll-Jou Sohn, Yong-Hun Park, Yong-Ho Ahn, Yong-Jin Kim, Woo-Young Chung
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):974-980.   Published online July 15, 1997
Purpose : Thin glomerular basement membrane (TGBM) disease is now recognized as one of leading causes of isolated microscopic hematuria, regarded as a benign condition and characterized by the presence of familial benign hematuria. But there are few studies of TGBM in Korea. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and pathological findings in TGBM according to...
Clinical Manifestations of Recurrent Abdominal Pain May Differ with Helicobacter pylori Infection in Children
Nam Seon Beck, I-Seok Kang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):965-973.   Published online July 15, 1997
Purpose : The role of H. pylori in the pathogenesis of recurrent abdominal pain in children is uncertain. In order to find a correlation between H. pylori infection and recurrent abdominal pain in children, the present study was designed to compare the clinical manifestations between recurrent abdominal pain children with and without H. pylori infection and to investigate the effects of H. pylori eradication...
The Therapeutic Effect of Interferon-alpha Treatment in Children with Chronic Hepatitis B
Il Sang Jeong, Ki Sup Chung
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):955-964.   Published online July 15, 1997
Purpose : The prevalance rate of chronic hepatitis B viral infection in children is high in our contry. We performed a prospective study to evaluate the effectiveness of and the factors predictive of response to interferon-alpha therapy in children with chronic hepatitis B. Methods : Thirty-two children with chronic hepatitis B werew admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine from...
A Clinical Study for the Time of Development and Risk Factors of Retinopathy of Prematurity
Eun Ae Park, Gyoung Hee Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):945-954.   Published online July 15, 1997
A Study of Relation between Stable Microbubble Rating and Surfactant Derivatives(SurfactenⓇ : Phospholipid :, ExosurfⓇ : Dipalmitoyl-Phosphatidyl Choline) Concentration in Vitro
Myung Ho Oh, Kee Hyuck Kim, Jae Gun Sim, Min Hee Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):939-944.   Published online July 15, 1997
Purpose : With the recent advent of surfactant replacement therapy, there is an increasing need for a rapid and reliable test to predict respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) immediately before or at birth. There are many investigations and methods for the detection of RDS in prenatal or postnatal period. The stable microbubble rating test (SMR-test) developed by pattle et al. is rapid and simple test...
Oral Agar and Conventional Phototherapy Combination in the Treament of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
Seong Wha Kim, Ji Hyang Doh, Jin Woo Choi, Min Hyang Kim, Ji Won Lee, Sung Taek Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):931-938.   Published online July 15, 1997
Purpose : Neonatal jaundice is one of the most common problems in our country leading to hospitalization. Agar is low cost, low risk, and easily fed orally; it can bind bilirubin in the intestine, decreasing its enterohepatic circulation, thereby decreasing serum bilirubin levels. At present, however, the effectiveness of agar in the prevention and treament of neonatal jaundice is quite conflicting and controversy. Recently we...
Analgetic Effect of Chloral Hydrate in Pain Induced by Spinal Tap in Neonates
Eun Jin Choi, Heng Mi Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):925-930.   Published online July 15, 1997
Purpose : The need for analgesia in neonates during and after surgery has been widely accepted in the past decade. Pain relief and sedation are still rarely used during minor treatment procedures in the neonatal intensive care units. However, many diagnostic and treatment procedures in the neonatal intensive care unit are noxious and often painful, and highly stressful for sick neonates. Methods : A prospective...
Extrachromosome 21 in Korean with Down Syndrome Using DNA Haplotyping
Jin-Sung Lee, Won Kyu Choi
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(7):917-924.   Published online July 15, 1997
Purpose : Down syndrome, the most common single cause of mental retardation, is usually due to meiotic nondisjunction leading to trisomy 21. In order to understand the mechanisms of meiotic nondisjunction including parental origin of an extrachromosome and the meiotic stage of nondisjunction, we have studied DNA polymorphisms at loci on the long arm of chromosome 21 in 36 families with free trisomy 21. Methods...
Diagnostic Value of Reticulated Platelet in Thrombocytopenia
Song Hee Park, Hwang Min Kim, Baek Keun Lim, Young Hak Shim, Chang Hoon Lee, Myung Seo Kang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):850-856.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : We performed this study to determine the diagnostic significance and useful cut-off value of reticulated platelet, which can be used for discriminating the destructive thrombocytopenia from underproductive thrombocytopenia. Methods : We evaluated 37 patients with thrombocytopenia who were admitted to the Wonju christian hospital from March to July, 1995. All patients were evaluated with bone marrow megakaryocyte count. We divided them into two...
Peripheral-Blood-Based PCR Assay to Identify Patients with Childhood Tuberculosis
Soo Sung Park, Byoung Moon Ahn, Eun Ryoung Kim, Il Soo Kim, Jae Jong Kim, Yu Jin Rha, Han Ho Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):841-849.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : There is an urgent need for rapid and accurate diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis. Recently, developments in molecular biology have raised hopes about the possibilities of new strategies for tuberculosis diagnosis. Most of these methods have focused on the application of PCR to sputum samples from patients with suspected mycobacterial disease. We used a nested PCR to detect circuclating Mycobacterial tuberculosis DNA in...
Lipid Profile and Its Association with Coronary Aneurysm in Kawasaki Disease
Ju Sik Choi, Suk Min Choi, Kyu Hyung Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):835-840.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : The value of serum lipid in children after recovery of Kawasaki disease may be important because of the predilection of this disease for the coronary artery. Methods : We measured serum high density lipoprotein(HDL)-cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides in 22 patients (mean age 38months, range 6 to 93 months) with Kawasaki disease during 10 days or less after onset and 2 months later...
The Retrospective Study on Antibiotics Treatment in Acute Gastroenteritis
Ji Hye Kim, Sung Hee Oh
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):826-834.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : Most of the gastroenteritis due to viruses and some bacteria can be successfully managed by oral and/or intravenous fluid-electrolyte replacement and antibiotic therapy is unnecessary and even harmful. It is, however, not uncommon practice to prescribe antibiotics when acute gastroentritis is suspected. Therefore authors analysed the clinical courses of the patients treated for acute non-bacterial gastroenteritis in a university hospital to assess...
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Children
Seong Hee Jang, Yoon Hwa Cha, Young Min Ahn, Sang Jae Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):818-825.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : Initial drug resistance of children with tuberculosis is a useful performance indicator of tuberculosis control programme in the concerned country because it represented infection transmitted from adult patients with either primary or acquired drug resistance. But there have been a few studies available. The present study was made to know the incidence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in hopes of...
The Perinatal Complications in Infants of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Ju Yeon Yeo, Seong Won Yang, Hye Kyung Han, Mi Ryung Um, Woo Gill Lee, Mi Na Lee, Hak Chul Jang, Ho Yeon Jung, Eun Sung Kim, Kyu Byung Jung
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):809-917.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : This study was performed to examine the impact of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on perinatal outcomes, especially macrosomia and metabolic complications in Korean women. Methods : We studied perinatal outcomes of 65 women with GDM who delivered a singleton infant and were not complicated by medical disease that might effect the fetal growth, 65 women with normal glucose tolerance were selected to match subject...
Somatosensory Evoked Potential of Median Nerve in Preterm Infants
Young Hwan Kim, Kee Hwan Yoo, Young Sook Hong
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):801-808.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : The purpose of this study was to standardize the somatosensory evoked potential(SEP) latency and amplitude of healthy preterm infants according to the postconceptional age. Methods : The median nerve SEPs were recorded in 30 healthy preterm infants who were followed up until 6 months and were neurodevelopmentally normal. Results : The mean peak latency and interpeak amplitude were following : P0=20.89±6.09(msec), N1=26.32±5.18, P1=31.16±6.59, N2=36.52±7.22...
The Expression of Fcγ Receptors in Cord and Adult Blood Granulocytes
Kyung Hyo Kim, Gyoung Hee Kim, Ju Young Seoh, Hae-Kyung Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):794-800.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : The immature neonatal immune system is thought to result in increased risk of infection. Receptors for the Fc moiety of IgG(FcγR) are important in antibody-mediated clearance of microbes by granulocytes and monocytes/macrophages. As an approach to understand their role in neonatal life, we compared the constitutive expression of the three Fc receptors-FcγRI(CD64), Fcγ RII(CD32) and FcγRIII(CD16)-of neonatal granulocytes with those of adult...
Effect of Oxygen Radicals on Cultured Cerebral Neurons of Neonatal Mouse
Yeon-kyun Oh, Seung-taek Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):786-793.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : In order to elucidate the neurotoxic mechanism of oxygen radicals which are pathological factor of ischemia, we evaluated the oxidant-induced neurotoxicity and the neuroprotective effect of antioxidant on cultured cerebral neurons derived from neonatal mouse. Methods : Neurotoxic effect was investigated after cultured mouse neuronal cells were exposed to oxygen radicals which were generated enzymatically by reaction of xanthine oxidase(XO) and hypoxanthine(HX). And also...
Physical and Biological Activity of Domestic Product of Modified Bovine Lung Surfactant
Chul Lee, Min Soo Park, Moon Sung Park, Jung Nyeon Kim, Jong Wook Lee, Kwang Hyun You, Won Jae Kwag, Kook In Park, Ran Nam gung, Dong Gwan Han
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):771-785.   Published online June 15, 1997
Purpose : Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome is caused by the deficiency of lung surfactant in premature babies. For the treatment of RDS at present surfactants such as Surfacten․ (Tokyo-Tanabe Co., Japan) and Exosurf․ (Wellcome Co., USA) are used. As awarded the grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology for a model research project of Medium-Technology program, we have modified (supplemented) the bovine lung...
Dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus Specific IgG-subclass Antibodies in Allergic Children
Soo Ja Hwang, Kyung Hyo Kim, Young Mi Hong
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):701-707.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : Although immunoglobulin E play a major role in immediate hypersensitivity reactions, some reaginic activity is associated with IgG. Part of the reaginic activity is associated with IgG1, IgG4. In contrast with this reaginic activity of IgG4, allergen-specific IgG4 antibody is allergen neutralizing antibody and contribute to the benificial effect of immunotherapy. The role of specific IgG antibody in allergic...
Production of Interleukin-1α and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α by Human Cord and Adult Blood Mononuclear Cells Stimulated by TSST-1 and LPS
Eun Ae Park, Kyung Hyo Kim, Gyoung Hee Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):690-700.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : Immature immunological defens mechanism in the neonate may contribute to the high susceptibility to overwhelming sepsis. S. aureus TSST-1 and E. coli LPS known as one of the important pathogens of septic shock or toxic shock induce massive release of various cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF-α) and interleukin-1α(IL-1α) produced from peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMC). In contrast, limited...
Clinical Features of Adrenocortical Neoplasms
Jung-Eun Lee, So-Chung Chung, Duk-Hi Kim, Ho-Sung Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):680-689.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : Adrenocortical tumors are uncommon in children and comprise only a small proportion of primary adrenal neoplasms. The biologic behavior of these tumors may be very difficult to predict, and their rarity has hindered identification of clinical characteristics. Patients with functioning tumors have excessive steroid hormone production, and the clinical manifestation depends on the predominant hormone produced. The detection of...
Long-term Growth Response to Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency
Byung Churl Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):672-679.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term growth response to growth hormone therapy in 18 children with naive growth hormone deficiency. Methods : The subjects of this study were aged 3-13.5 years and each patient continuously received GH(EutropinⓇ) 0.45-0.7IU/kg/week, intramuscularly or subcutaneously in 3-7 divided dose for up to 7 years. Standard auxologic assessment was carried...
The Efficacy of Routine Liver Function Test Follow Up in Epileptic Children
Dae Hun Pee, Hyung Joo Sohn, Young Kyoo Shin, Baik Lin Eun, Sang Hee Park, Soon Kyum Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):660-671.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : Routine liver function test follow up is done in epileptic children receiving antiepileptic drugs to prevent hepatotoxicity induced by these drugs. But rarely seen are the abnormalities of liver function test, and seldomly are these abnormalities accompanied by the clinical manifestation. This study is carried out to assess the efficacy of routine liver function test follow up in...
A Study of Vascular Reactivity Change in Nephrotic Syndrome Children Using Plethysmography
Jae Won Shim, Byoung Hoon Yoo, In Suk Lim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):650-659.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : The nephrotic syndrome is characterized by proteinuria, hypoproteinemia, edema and hyperlipidemia. These can change body homeostasis and cause hypertension. This study was designed to determine the relationship between the forearm vasodilating capacity and serum cholesterol level of nephrotic syndrome patients. Methods : 15 Nephrotic syndrome patients and 17 normal control children who visited Chung-ang University Youngsan Hospital from Sep....
Intermediate Term Follow-up Results of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Children
Eun Jung Cheon, Chung Il Noh, Jae Young Lee, Sun Sung Park, Myung Ja Yun, Hong Ryang Kil, Ho Sung Kim, Jung Yun Choi, Yong Soo Yun
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):641-649.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(HCMP) is a primary cardiac muscular disease with high risk of sudden cardiac death. This study is performed to understand the clinical features of children with HCMP. Methods : Retrospective analysis of the medical records of the patients diagnosed at Seoul National University Children's Hospital between October 1985 and June 1996 was done. Excluded the patients who had...
Nonoperative Treatment of PDA Using the Duct-OccludⓇ
Dong Woon Shin, Kyung Hee Lee, Heon-Seok Han
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):635-640.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : Among the several transcatheter devices of PDA occlusion, Rashikind device was the most extensively experienced, but it had risk of occluder embolism and incomplete occlusion of PDA, approximately 27%. The authors used Duct-OccludⓇ, made of 0.028 inch stainless steel coil. The coil is double cone-shape in released state, and used in streched condition through 4F implantation catheter for...
Echocardiographic Study of the Ventricular Septal Defect with Subaortic Ridge
Kyeung Hee Moon, Pyoung Han Hwang, Chan Uhng Joo
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):629-634.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : The easy recognition and characterization of a discrete or fixed subaortic ridge by echocardiography provides a method for prospective study of the coexistence of ventricular septal defect(VSD) and subaortic ridge. In the presence of a VSD, a subaortic ridge may be clinically silent, but the obstruction can progress if the VSD is surgically or spontaneously closed. This study...
Epidemiology of Varicella in Korea Based on Pediatrician's Office Practice
Dong Jun Kim, Hyeon Soo Park, Sang Yun Lee, Kee Surk Park, Taik Kill Kim, Young Hoon Song, Jin Choi, Jin Woo Han, Young Suk Song, Tae Jin Park, Hong Kun Kim, Soo Yup Lee, Sun Ho Lee, Hak Won Kim, Sung Hee Oh
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):620-628.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : Although varicella outbreakes have frequently occured, the epidemiology of varicella in Korea has not well been delineated. Furthermore without enough investigation with regard to safety and efficacy of varicella vaccine in Korean population, thevaccine has begun to be used in healthy children. Therefore the authors analized the clinical features of patients diagnosed of varicella to aid in understanding...
A Clinical Study on BCG Lymphadenitis
Jin Soo Hwang, Young Youn Choi, Jae Sook Ma, Tai Ju Hwang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):614-619.   Published online May 15, 1997
Purpose : We studied the incidence and clinical course of BCG lymphadenitis to investigate the BCG related problem. Subject and Methods: Three hundred and eighty-six infants received BCG vaccine (Pasteur-1173p2) in the Well Baby Clinic, Dept. of Pediatrics, Chonnam University Hospital from May 1993 and April 1994. Among them, twenty three infants developed regional lymphadenitis. We investigated the clinical course...
Occurrence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia in Seoul, Korea, from 1986 to 1995
Jung-Yun Hong, Song-Yi Nah, Seung-Gon Nam, Eun-Hwa Choi, Jin-Young Park, Hoan-Jong Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(5):607-613.   Published online May 15, 1997

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