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Case Report
Transfusion-Acquired Cytomegalovirus Infections in Two Premature Infants
Dong Wook Kim, Kyung Un No, Mi Jung Kim, Soon Mee Park, Hee Sup Kim, Young Pyo Chang, Hoan Jong Lee, Jung-Hwan Choi, Chong Ku Yun, Je Geun Chi
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1992;35(8):1141-1147.   Published online August 15, 1992
Transfusion-acquired perinatal cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection can cause significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in premature infants with a birth wight of less than 1,500 gm. This recognizable syndrome consisted of deterioration of respiratory function, hepatosplenogaly, unusual gray pallor with disturbing septic appearance, lymphocytosis, thrombocytopenia and hemolytic anemia. We experienced transfusion-acquired CMV infections in 2 premature infants with a birth weight of...
Original Article
Three cases of Chronic Meningitis.
Soon Mee Park, In Sang Jeon, Hyung Ro Moon
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1990;33(4):544-552.   Published online April 30, 1990
Chronic menigitis may be defined as symptoms and signs of meningeal inflammation lasting four weeks or longer. It has many infectious and noninfectious causes. Tuberculous and fungal infections are the most common causes. But no cause is found in the significant portions of chronic meningitis(idiopathic meningitis), although most appear to respond to treatment either with anti-tuberculosis drugs or steroids. Intereastingly eosinophilic pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal...
Three Cases of Typhlitis during Treatment for Acute Myelocytic Leukemia in Children.
Soon Mee Park, Il Soo Ha, Hoan Jong Lee, Jeong Kee Seo, Hyo Seop Ahn, Kyung Mo Yeon
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1989;32(10):1455-1462.   Published online October 31, 1989
Typhlitis is a rare necrotizing colitis in which inflammation is confined to cecum. It occurs during chemotherapy for malignancies, in terminal stage of aplastic anemia, in transplant patients. The pathogenesis of typhlitis has included leukemic infiltration of the bowel, thrombocytopenia, direct toxic effects of chemotherapy, steroid, bacterial invasion of the bowel wall secondary to neutropenia and alteration of the bowel flora by broad-spectrum antibiotics....