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We analyzed data on children with chronic renal failure collected from 36 pediatric training hospitals during the period from Jan. 1, 1980 to Dec. 31, 1984. The following results were obtained: 1) Total number of children with chronic renal failure during the study period was 135. The incidence was about 1 per 2,000 in-patients and 2.09 per million children under 15... |
A clinico-pathological observation was done on 23 children with primary hematuria, who had been admitted to the Pediatric ward of KNU Hospital from January 1981 to August 1985. All children were undergone percutaneous renal biopsy. The following resullts were obtained; Sex distribution showed male predominance with male to female ratio of 2.8:1 and 11 〜15 years of age group... |
Ninety-nine cases of ventricular septal defect with septal aneurysm which were confirmed by angiocardiography and 2-D echocardiography during the period of 2 years from 1983 to 1984 at SNUH were studied and analyzed. The summary of the findings are as follows: 1) Septal aneurysm was found in 99(26.9%) of 368 cases of total VSD and in 38.2% among membranous VSD.... |
1) Neurological assessment has been done in children with learning disorders, who are rological problems. The high incidence of neurologic defect is thought that those children are not purely child with learning disorder but many of them are handicapped children as well as mentally retarded ones. Neurological problems they manifested are organic brain dysfunction, children with severe psychological roblem, attention... |
The author studied 105 cases of HRV antigen positive detected by ELISA method among 325 children admitted to the pediatric ward at St. Benedict hospital, whose chief complain was diarrhea during the period of 1 year from Dec. 1st 1983 to Nov. 30, 1984. The results were as follow: 1) A high incidence of antigen positive was observed among... |
Neonatal period is marked with constantly changing hematologic process due to a number of physiologic and pathologic factors, and with risk of underdiagnosis or misdiagnosis of anemia of various causes. Therefore, prompt diagnosis of anemia and accurate identification of its underlying causes would be essential to arrive at the appropriate management and to avoid occasional serious complications. 104 full term... |
Jaundice occurs rather frequently in neonatal period, and yet the irreversible complication, kernicterus, may occur in severe cases with pathologic jaundice, from which the patients are at high risk for mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and even death. To prevent this complication, aggressive measures have been used for the neonatal janudice, such as phototherapy and exchange transfusion. Exchange transfusion has been... |
The statistical analysis on the mortality for the patients under the age of 15 years which were hospitalized to Pediatric Department of Keimyung University, Dong San Hospital during the period of 5 years from. January 1979 through December 1983 were carried out. Out of 19,409 hospitalized patients, 576 were death, showing 2.97% mortality and the leading causes of death were... |
Familial glucocorticoid defiency is a form of chronic adrenal insufficiency which is characterized by isolated deficiency of glucocorticoid and elevated levels of corticotropin in association with normal aldosterone production. It is thought to be degenerative process of adrenal cortex, with autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive pattern of inheritance. Skin hyperpigmentation and hypoglycemic symptom are characteristic and salt-losing symptom doesn’t develop.... |
A 4 year and 7 month old male patient was admitted with the chief complaint of subgaleal hematoma and recurrent bleeding episodes. The first episode was umbilical cord bleeding on the third day of life. Routine coagulation study including factor assay at that time was within normal limit. The bleeding cleared after whole blood transfusion. He had been admitted... |
Unilateral Absence of Pulmonary Artery(UAPA) is a rare disease. It is characterized by no specfiic cardiopulmonary symptoms in general. We experienced a case of UAPA in a 9 year-old female patient with the chief complaint of abnormal chest Xray finding. Lung perfusion scan, cardiac catheterization with pulmonary and aortic angiography confirmed the diagnosis of right side UAPA. |
We exprienced a case of sacrococcygeal teratoma in newborn girl with massive intraabdominalfextensioii and small caudal mass, which is relative rare. |
An extremely rare syndrome originally described by Hutchinson in 1886 and Gilford in 1904 is associated with a characteristic aged appearance very early in life. Although numerous clinical. metabolic and pathologic studies had been carried out and several theories advanced , the cause and pathogenesis of progeria remain obscure. The patient of this syndrome develope widespread atherosclerosis and often... |
The authors experienced a case of osteogenesis imperfecta in a 1 st day of life male patient. Characteristic findings of this disease are spontaneous fractures of bones, hypermobility of joints, otosclerosis, deafness and blue sclera. Diagnosis was confirmed by clinical symptoms and radiologic findings. Related literature was briefly reviewed. |