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Original Article
Infection
Usefulness of the procalcitonin test in young febrile infants between 1 and 3 months of age
In Sul Lee, Young Jin Park, Mi Hyeon Jin, Ji Young Park, Hae Jeong Lee, Sung Hoon Kim, Ju Suk Lee, Cheol Hong Kim, Young Don Kim, Jun Hwa Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2018;61(9):285-290.   Published online September 15, 2018

Purpose: To study the usefulness of the procalcitonin (PCT) test in young febrile infants between 1 and 3 months of age. Methods: We evaluated the medical records of 336 febrile infants between 1 and 3 months of age who visited the Emergency Department or outpatient department of Samsung Changwon Hospital from May 2015 to February 2017, and analyzed the clinical characteristics...
Case Report
A Case of Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis in a Child
Young Don Kim, Jung Hwa Choi, Young Tak Lim, Hee Ju Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(4):552-556.   Published online April 15, 1995
Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is an uncommon disorder of the stomach, small bowel, and colon, characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the gut wall and peripheral blood eosinophilia. The clinical features depend on the site of eosinophilic infiltration. Patients with eosinophilic gastroenteritis may develop an exudative ascites containing eosinophils. We experienced a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis in a 9 year old boy who had...
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia with 21-hydroxylase Deficiencies in Twins
Young Don Kim, Jeong Hwa Choi, Jae Hong Park, Hee Ju Park, Seong Suk Jeon
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1994;37(10):1469-1473.   Published online October 15, 1994
Congenital adrenal hperplasia is inherited disorder of adrenal steroidogenesis. 21-hydroxylase deficiency is the most commone enzymatic defect and is divided into classic and late-onset or nonclassic forms. Both classic and non-classic 21-hydroxylase deficiencies are inherited in a recessive manner as allelic variants. But it is rare that happened in twin infants. Chief complaints of affected twins in our case were ambiguous...
Original Article
A Clinical Study of Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Young-Jun Kim, Young Don Kim, Jae Hong Park, Su Young Kim, Hee-Ju Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1994;37(9):1235-1244.   Published online September 15, 1994
To Evaluate the clinical characteristics of childhood-onset systemic lupus erythemoatosus (SLE) and analyse the factors related to outcome of renal function in lupus nephritis, we reviewed medical records of 18 cases of SLE diagnosed at the Department of Pediatrics, Pusan Nationsl University Hospital from January 1981 to December 1990. The results were as was 1:2.6 1)Male...