Kawasaki disease (KD) is the main cause of acquired heart disease in children. In addition to cardiovascular involvement, many complications have been recognized in KD. However, respiratory complications have been rarely reported. We investigated the differences in clinical characteristics, laboratory findings, radiography findings, and echocardiography findings of Among 358 patients... |
Purpose : This study was done to evaluate the parents' or guardians' compliance of obtaining individual informed consent before vaccination and the possible problems of using informed consent. Methods : One hundred and twelve children were randomly selected among 2,820 children who visited Samsung Cheil Hospital during July 2002. A questionnaire about using informed consent of vaccination was given to all... |
Purpose : To find the anthropometric characteristics of newborn in women with gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM), and the relationship between the birth weight and anthropometric measurements of newborn, maternal body habitus and glycemic control in GDM group. Methods : Maternal weight, height, and obstetric history of 82 women with GDM and 93 women with normal glucose tolerance were recorded at the... |
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... |
Purpose : We tried to find the relationships between the fetal beta-cell function and neonatal birth weight, anthropometric measures, and maternal characteristics, and to observe role of insulin as fetal growth factor in offsprings of mothers who have normal glucose metabolism. Methods : We measured umbilical cord blood insulin and C-peptide concentrations in 236 neonates delivered at Cheil General Hospital from Jan. 1 to... |
Total 8,341 pregnant women who visited Obstetric clinic Cheil General Hospital from January 1991 to July 1992 were screened for HBsAg. Sixty five women with positive HbsAg who delivered healthy babies during that period and their infants are included in the study. HBsAg, Anti-HBs, Anti-HBc, HBeAg and Anti-HBe were tested by radioimmunoassay and hepatitis B virus DNA were studied by polymerase... |
To identify the neonates at the risk of having meconium aspiration syndrome, the perinatal characteristics and finding of fetal heart rate monitorings in 366 neonates who had meconium-stained amniotic fluid were retrospectively reviewed. The results were as follows ; 1) Overall incidence of MAS was 0.7%. 2) Mortality rate of MAS was 5.8%. 3) The mean Apgar scores at 1-and 5-minute were... |
The results were as follows; 1) The mean platelet count of peripheral blood in pergnancy-induced hypertensive mothers was 221, 733±17,357/mm3 which was than control Significant thrombocytopenia was encountered in 8 cases 2) Meanwhile their newborns showed neutropenia and prolongation of prothrombin time. 3) Intrauterine growth retardation could be assesed in 8 out of 30 newborns from these mothers. |
We have experienced a case of Cornelia de Lange syndrome in a girl of 4.5/12 years old. She showed typical features of a microbrachycephaly, hirsuitism and characteristic face with bushy eyebrows, antimongolian slant depressed nasal bridge, thin protruding lips with downtuming of the comers and the microtia. She also had severe retardation in growth and mental development. The diagnosis was established by typical clinical... |
The study was designed to evaluate the effect of vitamin E on hemolytic anemia of premature infants. Sixty infants delivered in Cheil Hospital from March 1987 to December 1988 with birth weight below 2500 gm or gestational age below 37 weeks were studied. Thirty infants received oral vitamin E 25 IU/day until their birth weight doubled. Thirty infants served as control. The results were... |
Hermaphroditism implies a discrepancy between the morphology of the gonads and of the external genitalia. We report a case of female infant with virilization bom to a mother who also developed signs of virilization during the pregnancy. Mother was diagnosed having huge, bilateral ovarian Krukenberg tumors metastsized from the stomach. A brief review of the literature was made. |
Six cases of Edward syndrome who were born at Cheil Hospital was presented. These babies had grossly multiple anomalies that were characterized by promint occiput, micrognathia, small palpebral fissures, small oral opening, narrow high palatal arch, low set ear, overlapping fingers, prominent labia minora and majora, narrow pelvis, and Rocker bottom feet. We have been confirmed by chromosome culture and their chromosomal analysis... |
A case of systemic cytomegalovirus infection in a newborn baby is reported. This female baby was born after 36 weeks gestation to a 30 year-old mother who had no prenatal problem except for breech presentation and placenta previa for which Caesarian section was given. The mother has two healthy children. The clinical course of this baby was characterized by repeat... |
A case of 18-Trisomy mosaicism in a male newborn infant who was born to a mother of 27 years old at Cheil Hospital was presented. This baby had grossly multiple anomalies that were characterized by prominatn occiput, microhpthalmia, palpebral fissure, micrognathia, high arched palate, low set ears, undescended testes, limitation of abduction of hip joint, syndactylism of finger, and overlapping... |
Sixty-two cases of empyema in infancy and childhood, admitted to Pediatric Department of the National Medical Center over the period from 1960 to 1968, are presented. 1)The total incidence of empyema among the cases of pneumonia was 10. 6%. Analysis of the yeraly prevalence revealed 18.4 % in 1961. 2)The 35 cases of them were male and rest was female.... |
A case of Infectious Mononucleosis in a 10 months old Korean male was reported. As far as we know, this is the second case in Korea. The diagnosis was made chiefly not on the basis of the titer of Heterophil Antibodies, but on the clinical findings with aid of typical pictures of the smear in pheripheral blood and bone marrow. Review of literatures... |
With the common use of isoniazid, the problem of accidental poisoning is inevitable in Korea. Only five cases of acute isoniazid poisoning were reported in the English literature until 1963. Since the opening of the National Medical Center in 1958, we have experienced two accidental cases of acute poisoning from an overdose of isoniazid in children. Case 1, a 33-month-old... |
A clinical study was made on 363 cases of malignant and benign tumors occurring under the age of 15 years, observed at the National Medical Center, during a period of 7 years, from January 1, J .959 to December 31, 1965. Three hundred and sixty three tumors were divided into 171 malignant, 185 benign and 7 unclassified tumors. The age distribution... |