To contract the parasitic infection, the environmental factor is more important although the host defense mechanism must be considered. Though it is important to consider the physical conditions, social and economic conditions are most important factors. Now it has been reported that the parasitic infection rate has been on the decrease along with improvement of social and economic conditions. Parasitologic... |
A clinical study was done on 177 cases of inpatients, who had been admitted under the diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia and foreign body aspiration at the Department of Pedia-trics, Yonsei University College of Medicine from Jan. 1965 to Dec. 1977. The results were obtained as follows: 1)Children below 5 years old(59.3%) are prone to aspirate and it is more common in... |
Biliary atresia is a surgical disease of infancy with a very poor prognosis usually attributed to the rarity of surgically correctable case. This paper presents a case of incorrectable type of biliary atresia 50 days old Direan female infant who were subjected to the Modified Kasai Operation She had shown good bile excretion after surgery but developed recurrent fever, severe... |
Malformation of the anus and rectum, frequently refered to as imperforate anus are the most common of congenital anomalies among the congenital anomalies of gastrointestinal tract, occuring about once in every 5,000births. They consist of variety of lesions ranging from mild congenital stenosis of the anus which requires simple dilation for cure to complex deformities which present some of the... |
A statistical study on visually handicapped children was performed by The Committee on Health of Korean Pediatric Association from July to October, 1978. 3,930 boys and girls in middle school children(3rd grade; around 15 years of age) were studied and the results were obtained as follows; 1, 788 out of 3,930 children(20.1%) were visually handicapped. There were no sex preponderance.... |
A clinical study was made on 10 neonates with gastrointestinal perforation admitted to the department of pediatrics and surgery of Severance hospital from January, 1965, through Jane, 1978. The following results were obtained; 1) Males predominate (7M : 3F). 2) 7 cases of perforations occur in the first 2 days of life. 3) The most common site of perforations is... |
A clinical study was carried out on 575 cases with tuberculous meningitis who were admitted to the department of pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine during the 18 years from January 1959 to December 1976. The following results were obtained. 1.The age incidence was highest in the age of 2 to 5 and 89.1% were under the age of 8... |
A study on physically and mentally handicaped children was carried out by health commttee of korean pediatric Association on August, 1977. 654 children in 5 special children's Institutes in Seoul area were observed and the results obtained were as follows ; 1. 393 out of 654 cases were males and male to female ratio was 6 : 4. The most... |
Two hundred and thirteen cases of acute poisoning who were admitted in pediatric wards of Severance Hospital and Won ju Christian Hospital from April, 1966 to March, 1976 (10 years) were statistically analyzed and compared it with the statistical study of same hospitals from April, 1956 to March, 1966 (10 years). 1. Incidence of poisoning was 1.2% of all admitted... |
The increasing emphasis upon the need for education in the modern world led to a number of interesting developments. For the good result of the education, adequate intellectual, physical, and environmental factors may by essential. A visually handicapped child may be hindered hisprocess in school. The purpose of this study was to find out the prevalence and their relation to... |
We observed clinically 150 cases who were admitted with complaing of purpura at the Pediatric Department of Severance Hospital Yonsei University College of Medicine during a period of 9 years from July, 1966 to June, 1975. In 150 cases, leukemia, 33 cases (22.0%), was most common disease, followed by I.T.P., allergic purpura, meningococcemia, aplastic a nemia, sepsis in order aqnd... |
Clinicostatistical study was carried out on 130 cases of children with malignant tumors admitted in pediatric ward of Severance Hospital from 1965 to 1974 and the following results were obtained: 1) The incidence of malignancies on all admitted cases was 1.0% and males were more affected(68.5%) than females. 2) The annual increase of incidence on childhood malignancies couldn't be observed.... |
31 cases of pericarditis who were admitted to pediatric department, Ssverance Hospital from April 1958 to March 1975 (for 17 years) were studied clinically. They consisted of 28 cases with acute pericarditis and 3 cases with chronic constrictive pericarditis. The incidence of pericarditis among the admitted cases was 0.2% and both sexes were almost equally affected. Cases of acute pericarditis... |
Reading difficulty is well known problem in school children and widely distributed over the whole countries. Since the children with such problem could not perform their school work satisfactorily and personality would be easily distorted by the difficulty, and their problem should be corrected as soon as possible. For correction of reading difficulty, 82 cases of children (1st year class... |
The transfusion of whole blood and its components had become part of the daily treatment of patients. The vast improvement of technics in blood collection and storage, combined with constantly increasing knowledge in the field of blood group immunology, has made it possible to operate blood transfusion service at a level of safety that may make the physician forget the... |
Infants and children o£ 405 cases with respiratory diseases and 290 cases with non-respiratory diseases who were admitted to pediatric department, Severance hospital from May, 1973 to April, 1975 were performed bacterial cultures from their throat were compared with different state of bacterial flora of both groups. The following results were obtained; 1.Total number of bacteria isolated from respiratory patients and... |
Congenital Megacolon is due to congenital defect of the parasympathetic ganglionic cells in Auerbach’s plexus causing constriction anatomically at rectum or rectosigmoid in majority and an abscence of peristalsis and propulsive movement functionally with marked dilatation at the proximal bowel of the defected area. We have experienced 33 caess of congenital megacolon from January, 1957 to December, 1972 and this disease... |
Bleedilng from the gastrintestinal tract is a reatively common occurence in infancy and childhood. Fortunately, in most cases a very careful history and physical examination will reveal the lesion, responsible but occasionally the most exhaustive investigation will fail to identify the hemorrhagic source. In order to determine the patterns of gastrointestinal bleeding in infancy and childhood, a total 344 cases of gastrointestinal bleeding patients... |
Reading difficulty is well known problem in school children and widely distributed over the whole countries. Since the children with such problem could not perform their school work satisfactorily and their personality would be easily distorted by the difficulty, their problem should be corrected as soon as possible. The purpose of this study was to find the causes of reading difficulty and the method... |
78 cases of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia who had exchange transfusion were studied clinically. They were admitted to Severance Hospital from July 1962 to June 1971 and the results were as follows. 1. They were consisted of 37 cases (47.4%) of ABO incompatibliity, 16 cases of physiologic jaundice (20. 0%), 8 cases of Rh incompatibility (10. 0%) and... |
Bacterial and clinical study were performed on 391 cases of diarrheal children who were admitted, in pediatric department, Severance Hospital from July 1966 to June 1971 and the following results were obtained. 1.Of the potential pathogens, the most common bacteria was E.P.E.C. (24.6%) and shigella. C22.4%) was the next. 2.Most commonly cultured type of E.P.E.C. was type 055(32.7%) and type 0128(28.3%)was... |
Idiopathic hypersplenism is a rare disease in childhood. Recently,we experienced a case of idiopathic hypersplenism in a 6 year old boy who had longstanding history of pallor, bleeding tendency and large palpable mass on his left upper abdomen. He was treated successfully by splenectomy and we report this case with review of literatures. |
Eosinophilia of infancy and childhood were studied among in-patients of the Pediatric Department of Severance Hospital and World Vision Children’s Hospital from 1969 to 1670, 2000 in number. (1000 cases from both hospital) The incidence of eosinophilia was 10. 2% of in-patients in both hospital and was highest between 7~ 12 years of age. Distribution of eosinophiles were 6〜15% in eosinophilia... |
A group of 980 cases of respiratory tract infections in infancy and children admitted to Severance Hospital during the 4 years from June, 1967 to May, 1971 were studied, and bacteriologic studies in each respiratory disease by means of throat cultures were evaluated. The following results were obtained: 1. Total number of bacteria isolated from respiratory patients were 1,708 in which number of Potential ... |
172 cases of acute poisoning who had been admitted in the Pediatric wards of Severance Hospital and Wonju Union Christian Hospital were statistically analyzed and compared with two hospitals for the difference between urban and rural areas. 1.Boys were more often intoxicated than girls and the highest incidence was observed in the 2 to 4year age group. 2.Seasonal incidence showed... |
225 Cases of acute glomerulonephritis, rheumatic fever and scarlet fever which had been admitted in the Severance Hospital were studied for seasonal variations of incidence and probable factors which might influence any variations found. 1.Boys were more often affected than girls. 2.The incidence was highest between the ages of 4 to 12. 3.Seasonal incidence of these 3 diseases were almost... |
This is a report of a 10 months-old male with Letterer-Siwe disease. The patient illustrated the classical clinical features of the disease, including maculopapular rash, hemorrhagic manifestations, anemia,diarrhea, marked enlargement of the spleen & liver, and susceptibility to secondary infection. Most of these signs developed soon after birth. (Fig. 1,2, & 3) Diagnosis was confirmed by microscopic examination, of skin... |