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Original Article
Responses to Growth Hormone Treatment in Children with Short Stature Secondary to Intrauterine Growth Retardation
Byung Churl Lee, Dong Won Kin, Byung Kyu Suh
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(12):1671-1676.   Published online December 15, 1995
Purpose : Several studies recently have emphasized the value of sonography as an new therapeutic method for hydrostatic reduction of intussusception by using a saline enema under ultrasound guidance. The purpose of this study was to asses the diagnostic screening efficacy of sonography in suspected childhood intussusception and the value of ultrasound guidance in hydrostatic reduction performed with saline enema. Methods...
Comparison of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Efficacy between Ultrasound Guided Hydrostatic Saline Reduction and Fluoroscopic Barium Reduction in Children with Intussusception
Chi Hyung Park, Ho Seok Lee, Chong Woo Bae, Sa Jun Chung, Young Mook Choi, Sun Wha Lee, Yup Yun
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(12):1664-1670.   Published online December 15, 1995
Purpose : Several studies recently have emphasized the value of sonography as an new therapeutic method for hydrostatic reduction of intussusception by using a saline enema under ultrasound guidance. The purpose of this study was to asses the diagnostic screening efficacy of sonography in suspected childhood intussusception and the value of ultrasound guidance in hydrostatic reduction performed with saline enema. Methods...
Evaluation of Severity of Childhood Pancreatitis with Multiple Factor Scoring Systems
Young In Choi, Jeong Kee Seo
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(12):1653-1663.   Published online December 15, 1995
Purpose : Pancreatitis in children is not common but can be associated with severe morbidity rates. Early prognostic evaluation of acute pancreatitis assists in selecting those patients who should be closely monitored. We studied the clinical characteristics and prognostic factors in patients with acute pancreatitis. Methods : Twenty five children with pancreatitis were included ranging in age from 1.8 to 14.9...
Case Report
A Case of the Renal Artery Aneurysm Associated with the Dysplastic Kidney
Tae Hee Park, Soo Hee Chang, Young Min Han, Soo Chul Cho, Dae Yeol Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(11):1571-1576.   Published online November 15, 1995
Multicystic dysplastic kidney is the most frequent cause of abdominal mass in the neonate. It is frequently associated with contralateral genitourinary tract abnormalities and the most common abnormality is vesicoureteral reflux. Renal artery aneurysm is very rare in the children. Furthermore the case associated with the renal artery aneurysm has not been reported yet. We experienced a case of the left...
Original Article
Use of Fluorescent in Situ Hybridization to Evaluate the Number of Chromosomes in Buccal Smear Cells in Normal Newborn Infants
Byoung Chan Lee, Jee Yeon Song, So Young Kim, Hyun Hee Kim, Seunghoon Han, Jong-In Byun, Wonbae Lee, Kyong Su Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(11):1470-1475.   Published online November 15, 1995
Purpose : The diagnosis for chromosomal anomality has been made by obtaining cells in metaphase from peripheral blood and fresh tissue culture. But this method is difficult to perform because somewhat invasive and necessary time for cell culture and staining(48-72hr). Recently, the method to find numerical abnormalities in, autosome and sex chromosome of adult buccal mucosal smear by FISH was...
Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Tumer' Syndrome according to Karyotypic Differences
Eun Young Kim, Kyoung Sim Kim, Kibok Kim, Won Jin Kee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(11):1460-1469.   Published online November 15, 1995
Purpose : To assess the differences of clinical features according to various karyotypes in Turner syndrome. Methods : Subjected to study were 45 patients with Turner syndrome, including 5 newborns, from March 1974 to April 1994. They were divided into 3 groups according to karyotypes: 45,X, mosaicism, and structural aberration; and the clinical features were compared. Also structural aberration groups, 46,XXp-and...
A Clinical Study of Interrupted Aortic Arch
Myoung Dong Shin, Tae Hun Kang, Hyoung Doo Lee, Si Chan Sung
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(10):1349-1355.   Published online October 15, 1995
Purpose : We conducted this study to determine the clinical manifestations and prognostic factors of interrupted aortic arch(IAA). Methods : We performed retrospective clinical study with chart review in 9 infants who were diagnosed as IAA between January, 1993 and December, 1994. Results : Infants with IA were from 7 days to 92 days of age. Among them, 6 cases were type...
A Study of Antimicrobial Sensitivity to Isolated Bacteria in Ulsan
Sun Ju Kim, Yong Woon Baek, Jin Yeong Jeong, Sung Ryul Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(10):1329-1339.   Published online October 15, 1995
Purpose : The Patterns of predominant microorganisms and their antibiotic sensitivity have been changed by various factors. Identification and evaluation of major pathogenic organisms and selection of optimal antibiotics were essential in the management of infectious diseases. This susceptibility patterns of antibiotics would be useful to improve empirical antimicrobial therapy. Methods : We studied the antimicrobial sensitibity to isolated bacteria from...
Case Report
A Case of Spontaneously Remitted Congenital Minimal Change Nephrotic Syndrome
Tae Sun Ha, Kyung Hee Lee, Beom Soo Park, Heon Seok Han
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(9):1288-1292.   Published online September 15, 1995
Nephrotic syndrome is a condition with severe proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, and edema. When the syndrome develops within the first 3 months of life, it is generally considered as congenital and the overall outcome in this group seems to be worse than in miniaml change lesion that occurs at an older age regardless of the pathologic findings. A female infant with congenital nephrotic...
Original Article
Results of the Mechanical Valve Replacement in the Right Side of the Heart in Children
Hyeon Jin Park, Chung Il Noh, Ho Sung Kim, Jung Yun Choi, Yong Soo Yun, Yong Jin Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(9):1220-1231.   Published online September 15, 1995
Purpose : We performed this study in order to evaluate the outcome of the mechanical valve replacement in the right side of the heart in children. Methods : Retrospective analysis of the clinical records of 26 patients who had undergone a right sided valve replacement between October 1986 and September 1992 at Seoul National University Children뭩 Hospital. Results : Twenty six children...
Case Report
A Case of Pseudohypoaldosteronism
In Nam Kang, Jong Won Lee, Jin Guen Bang, Du Bong Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(8):1160-1163.   Published online August 15, 1995
Psudohypoaldosteronism is a salt-wasting disease with unresponsiveness to mineralcorticoid and normal renal and adrenal function. Characteristic findings are severe hyponatremia, hyperkalemia and hyperaldosteronemia. We experienced a case of pseudohypoaldosteronism ina 1-day-old female who was presented with abdominal distension. Laboratory data showed hyponatrmia, hyperkalemia, elevation of plasma renin activity and aldosterone concentration and normal renal, adrenal function. We reported a case of...
Original Article
Antibody Response to Capsular Polysaccharide Vaccine of Streptococcal Pneumonia in Patients with Nephrotic Syndrom
Ji Young Choi, Jae Ho Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(8):1107-1115.   Published online August 15, 1995
Purpose : Although the etiology and pathogenesis of child with nephrotic syndrome remains uncertain, it has been suggested from indirect evidence that this syndrome may represent deficiency in T-cell function and abnormal humoral immune response to antigens or immynoglobulin. Children with nephrotic syndrome are susceptible to pneumococcal infection. Now, we performed this study to evaluate pneumococcal anticapsular antibody concentration and...
Case Report
A Case of Chronic Pancreatitis with Pancreatic Stones in Childhood
Young Kyoo Shin, Chan Wook Woo, Kee Hyoung Lee, Young Chang Tockgo, Chang Duck Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(7):1012-1017.   Published online July 15, 1995
Chronic pancreatitis is a rare problem in childhood and sometimes shows pancreatic calcif-ication. The most common symptom is chronic recurrent upper abdominal pain, with waves of crampy pain that increase in severity, with or without associated nausea or vomiting. Although the diagnosis is made or considered infrequently hereditary or other metabolic factors, the cau-se remains largely idiopathic. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography(ERCP)...
A Case of Disseminated Pagetoid Reticulodsis
Hyang Mi Kwon, Sun Seong Park, Hye Lim Jung, Dong Hyuck Keum, Kye Yong Song
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(7):988-992.   Published online July 15, 1995
Pagetoid reficulosis is a rare skin disorder consisting of localized(WoringerKolopp type) or disseminated (Ketron-Goodman type), asymptomatic hyperkeratotic, cutaneous plaque. The disseminated form has clinical similarities with mycosis fungoides and histologically characteri-sed by prominent infiltration of cytologically atypical mononuclear cells within a hyperplastic epidermis. It is suggested that the infiltrating cells orginate from T-lymphocytes. A 6yr old male patient visited with...
Original Article
Effects of Cyclosporine on the Renal Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Baroreflex Function in Rabbits
Chan Uhng Joo, Tae Hee Park, Moon Hwan Lee, Jung Soo Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(7):955-962.   Published online July 15, 1995
Purpose : The immunosuppresive drug cyclosporine(CS) is a novel agent that has greatly enhanced long-term survival after organ transplantation and has proved beneficial in the treat-ment of many autoimmune diseases. However, CS has emerged as a new cause of hypertens-ion. Although the causes of the hypertension are undoubtedly multifactorial, there are evidenc-es to suggest that sympathetic overactivity is involved. We...
Studies on Mechanism of Vascular Hyporeactivity of Mesenteric Artery from Septic Rats
Man Chul Ha, Hee Ju Park, Ki Whan Hong
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(7):922-935.   Published online July 15, 1995
Purpose : Septic shock due to gram negative bacterial infection is characterized by vasodil-ation, hypotension, and myocardial depression due to the effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In spite of extensive studies, the mechanisms for the vascular effects of endotoxemia are not clear. Recently, it has been proposed that nitric oxide (NO) synthesized from L-arginine by nitric oxide synthase contributes to the...
Epidemic Aseptic Meningitis in 1993 -Focused on Virus Culture-
Ji Yeon Cho, Hyang Ju Kim, Ghee Young Jung, Jin Keun Pang, Du Bong Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(7):901-906.   Published online July 15, 1995
Purpose : Aseptic meningitis is relatively common disease caused by virus, however in most of casesthe main causes are unnoticed since virus culture and isolation is quiet difficult in our country. Authors of this thesis have conducted virus culture and isolation test to figure out cause of aseptic meningitis that was prevalent through out the country from June to July...
Erratum
Three Cases of Necrotizing Lymphadenitis in Childhood
Seong Hoon Hah, Dong Woon Shin, Kyung Hee Lee, Tae Sun Ha, Beom Soo Park, Heon Seok Han, Sang-Hoon Cha, Geon Kook Lee
Accepted January 1, 1970  
Necrotizing lymphadenitis(named as "Kikuchi disease"), initially described by a Japanese pathologist as "a histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis with paracortical necrosis, plasmacytoid monocytes infiltration and prominent phagocytic appearance" has been found worldwide. Be-cause of its self-limited course, it has been well known that what should be considered as more important issues are its deatiled pathologic criteria for confirmation and thorough concern about...
Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus in Infant of the Mother Who Had Active Hepatitis C during Pregnancy
Mi-Jeong Lee, Mi-Jeong Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(6):857-862.   Published online June 15, 1995
Vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus(HCV) has been reported recently. The authors experienced one case of vertical transmission of HCV in infant of the mother who had active hepatitis C durig pregnancy. At delivery, HCV RNA(+), IgG anti HCV Ab(+), IgM anti HCV Ab(+), mile elevation of liver aminotransferase level and mile fatty liver of ultrasonography were found in the...
Original Article
The Effect of ACTH on Mouse Heart
Sang Young Seo, Joo Won Lee, Chang Sung Son, Young Chang Tockgo
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(6):804-810.   Published online June 15, 1995
Purpose : Adrenocorticotropic Hormone(ACTH) therapy is useful in the treatment of patients with infantile spasm. However, serious side effects including Cushing syndrome, infections, hypertension, and electrolyte imbalance must be encountered. Moreover, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in association with ACTH therapy has recently reported. We performed thiw study to evaluate the effect of ACTH on heart muscle. Methods : We administered ACTH subcutaneously to...
A Clinical Observation of Kawasaki Meningitis and Viral Meningitis
Jae-Ho Hyun, Young-Hoon Kim, Ji-Whan Han, Jong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Tai Whang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(6):794-803.   Published online June 15, 1995
Purpose : This study was performed to investigate the clinical characteristics in Kawasaki meningitis and viral meningitis. Methods : A clinical observation and comparison were carried out on 37 patients of Kawasaki disease with meningitis(group A) and 28 patients of Kawasaki disease without meningitis (group B) who were admitted to Catholic Medical Center from July, 1991 to June, 1993 and 100...
Case Report
A Case of Congenital Dyserythropoietic anemia Type IV
Hwa Young Jeon, Hwang Min Kim, Baek Keun Lim, Duk Woo Park, Myung Seo Kang, Young Kun Deung
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(5):702-706.   Published online May 15, 1995
Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia(CDA) is characterized by ineffective erythropoiesis an d increased numbers of multinucleated red cell precursors in the marrow. This syndrome has b een subdassified on the basis of morphologic and serologic differences in the red cell pecursors. There are some patients with congenital dyserythropoietic anemia who do not fit into the conventional classification of type I, II, or...
Original Article
Changes of Interleukin-6 Level in Serum and CSF in Aseptic Meningitis
Moon Kyu Kim, Dong Soo Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(5):625-632.   Published online May 15, 1995
Purpose : Aseptic meningitis is an infection of CNS caused by virus and there are remarka-ble changes in endogenous cytokine level. Interleukin-6 is a pleiotropic and multi-functional cyt-okine and plays a central role in host defense mechanisms. We studied the IL--6 level in serum and CSF with the patients of aseptic meningitis and investigated the relationship of IL-6 with C...
Clinical Study of Subarterial Ventricular Septal Defect
Yon Sook Rho, Yong Won Park, Sang Woo Kim, Bon Il Ku, Sang Joon Oh, Hong Sup Lee, Chang Ho Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(4):493-500.   Published online April 15, 1995
Purpose : The incidence of subarterial ventricular septal defect(SA VSD) ranges 25-30% among oriental patients with VSDs, which is greater than 5% reported in western. Natural history of the disease is characterized by progressive aortic valve prolapse(AVP), frequently subarterial VSD, we evaluated clinical characteristics emphasizing on the incidence of AVP and the degree of AI as aging. Methods : Study subjects...
Changes of Clinical Patterns of the Acute Rheumatic Fever in Korea(Compared report of 1973-1985 with that of 1986-1992)
Hye Sun Yoon, Min Young Park, Wan Young Shin, Byong Soo Sco, Sung Ho Cho
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(4):470-481.   Published online April 15, 1995
Purpose : The annual incidence of acute rheumatic fever in Korea was not changing during 1980 to 1989 from Nationwide survey in 1991 in spite of talking about scanty outbreak among doctors in recent year.The proportion of patients with acute rheumatic fever among the entire pediatirc inpatients each year was approximately 0.3% and did not change significantly throughout the...
Case Report
Familial Erythrophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Siblings
Eun Sook Lee, Ji Eun Choi, Dug Ha Kim, Hae Ran Lee, Chong Young Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(3):428-434.   Published online March 15, 1995
Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis(FEL) is an uncommon disorder characterized by multi-organ infiltration with phagocytic histiocytes and macrophages. It is a familial discorder presenting during infancy or young childhood with fever, hepartosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, bleeding diathesis, hypertriglyceridemia and neurologic manifestations. The course of the disease is extremely lethal and diagnosis of the disease during lifetime is very difficult. Exact diagnosis can only be...
Original Article
A Clinical Study on Pauciarticular Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis(JRA)
Youn Soon Hahn, Jeoong Gon Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(3):386-396.   Published online March 15, 1995
Purpose : The purpose of this study was to analyse clinical and laboratory patterns in patients in Korea with juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis(JRA), pauciarticular type and to know the characteristics of pauciarticular JRA in Korea. Methods : Twenty-three cases of pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis(JRA) who were diagnosed in the department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University hospital (from june 1988 to May 1994)...
Infections in Children with Neoplastic Disease
Eun Hwa Choi, Jin Won Pyo, Jin Young Park, Kyung Bae Kwon, Bo Young Yun, Hee Young Shin, Hoan Jong Lee, Hyo Seop Ahn
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(3):366-377.   Published online March 15, 1995
Purpose : Infection is a major complication in patients with malignant disease. This study was performed to identify the causes and the etiologic agents of febrile infections and to characterize the clinical courses including the response to antimicrobial agents inpediatric cancer patients. Methods : This study reviewed 274 febrile episodes occurring in 163 children with neoplastic disease which were indentified prospectively...
Clinical Characteristics of Childhood Cerebrovascular Disease and Analysis on the Prognostic Factors
Yong Seung Hwang, Moon Sun Yang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(3):353-365.   Published online March 15, 1995
Purpose : Cerebrovascular disease in children is more common than was once recognized and the etiology and prognosis of the disease in children are quite different from those of adults. Recently according to medical reports and clinical experiences, the incidence of childhood cerebrovascular disease is increasing in Korea. To clarify the clinical features of childhood cerebrovascular disease and to analyze its...
Peptic Ulcer Disease in Infants and Children
In Sheol Park, Nam Su Kim, Poong Man Jung
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(3):339-346.   Published online March 15, 1995
Purpose : This study was performed to be helpful in early diagnosis and treatment of the children with peptic ulcer disease. Methods : The authors observed 36 children with peptic ulcer disease who had been admitted to Hanyang University Hospital during the 11 year 4 mont period from January 1981 to April 1992 retrospectively. The diagnosis was established in 33.3% by...


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