This is acase report of the gastric perforation occured in a 4 days old full-term normal bady. She had been well until 4 days of age, when vomitting was noted, and cynosis, respiratory distress, progressive abdominal distension were developed, rapidly. X-ray finding of the abdomen revealed large amount of free air under the both diaphragm, strongly suggesting the perforation of GI... |
A retrospective 13 medical records of symptomatic and spontaneous pneumothorax of newborn has been reviewed, which occurred during last 13 years from Jan. 1971 through Dec. 1983 at Pediatric Department of Yonsei Medical School. Spontaneous pneumothorax was defined one with pneumothorax which was not given positive pressure or intubation. And following results W6re obtained; 1)The incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax in... |
The Authors observed 51 cases of meconium aspiration syndrome in newborns who were born at Severance Hospital during the period of Jan. 1980 through Jun. 1983. The following results were obtained: 1) The incidencs of meconium aspiration syndrome was 0.6%(51 cases). 2)88.2% of newborn with meconium aspiration syndrome was weighing more than 2,500 gm and 93.1% of that was with a... |
Since the report of Dr. Cremer in the 1950s the effectiveness of phototherapy in the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia has been demonstrated in many clinical trials and now become widely accepted as a routine therapeutic measure in most pediatric clinics. Considering the relatively high incidence of prematurity and neonatal jaundice especially in Asian countries, it is of great concern to... |
An in-vitro sensitivity of Ceftizoxime sodium (CZX), a third generation Cephalosporin, using Epocelin® (a product of Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Central Laboratory, Japan), was studied against various bacterial strains isolated from the children with infections hospitalized on the pediatric ward of Hanyang University Hospital during the period from February, 1983 up to June, 1983. And therapeutic responses were observed in 26 pediatric... |
We experienced acute stomach perforation in a 10 years old boy who suffered from rheum- atic carditis and treated with penicillin, aspirin and prednisolone. A brief review of literature was done. |
Pulmonaary sequestration is a relatively uncommon anomaly that usually requires arteriography for definitive diagnosis. We recently experienced a case in which the diagnosis of intraloar pulmonary sequestration was confirmed by aortogram & surgery. The patient was 9 years old female with the chief complaint of coughing, fever, sweating, and myalgia. The sequestration was resected by lobectomy. The authors report a case of... |
A statistical assessment was carried out in two hundreds and eighty three inpatients and outpatients and fifteen mothers who were subjected to chromosomal analysis at Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital, from January 1977 to February 1982. The following results were obtained: 1) Age distribution revealed 65.8% of all children subjected to chromosomal analysis to be: under 2 years of age. The number of... |
The authors experienced a case of ulcerative colitis of a 12-year old female patient. We diagnosed it through the evaluation of clinical and radiographic features. The surgical and histopathologic findings aid to the confirmation of the diagnosis. On. operation, which was carried out because of the development of complication, panperitonitis due to bowel perforation, on the 5th hospital day, we observed a rare case... |
W« studied the guidelines on the serum bilirubin concentration of 15 mg% for the management of neonatal jaundice and compared the group of serum bilirubin concentration below 15 mg% ■and the group of serum bilirubin concentration above 15 mg%. 83 cased of icteric infants without any risk factors for kernicterus, ahove 12 m.g% in serum bilirubin concentration, were born at the St. Benedict hospital... |
We have experienced two cases of pulmonary sequestrations. The first case, 49/I2 year old girl, was admitted for ths evaluation of recurrent pneumonia of left lower lung. The diagnosis of pulmonary sequestration was made by aortography, which demonstrate tortuous aberrant artery suppling the left posterobasal segment from the intrathoracic descending aorta at Tlo 유卜 level, and the sequestration was successfully resected by lobectomy. The... |
Polycstic kidney was rare problem of pediatric disease category. We have experienced one case of polycstic kidney(Potter type I) with pulmonary hypoplasia who born after 35 weeks of gestation to a 34 year-old mother. The clinical course of this infant was characterized by respiratory difficulty with apnea, cyanosis and marked abdominal distension. Chest X-Ray film showed no airation in the... |
A statistical study was done on the feeding trends of 2,965 children who had visited both the out-patient clinic and the well-baby clinic of Padiatric Department, St. Benedict Hosp., from Sept., 1979 to Aud., 1980. 1) Among the total 2,965 children, the distribution according to age was about the same. The percentage of male and female was 58.5% respectively. As... |
The authors reviewed 312 pediatric convulsive patients admitted to the Department of Pediatrics Jeonbug national University Hospital during the last 3 years period from Sep. 1st, 1978 to Aug. 31st. 1981. The clinical and statistical results were obtained as follows. 1) Of the total 312 pediatric convulsive patients, the patients over 6 years of age and preschool children between 2... |
A clinical study was done on 199 cases of Acute Glomerulonehritis, who had been admitted to the department of Pediatrics, Chonnam National University Hospital during the five years period from January 1976 to December 1980. The following results were obtained. 1) Males were affected more frequently than females by a 2:1 ratio, and the highest incidence was noted in children... |
Accidents have become one of the most important problem in the pediatric and child health field because of the recently observed high incidence of and mortality from accidents. Due to an improvement of the living standard in general and especially due to the wide application of vaccination and antibiotics, there has been a decline of incidence of infectious diseases in... |
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... |