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Non invasive blood pressures measured by the Dinamap monitor, an oscillometric device, were compared with the invasive radial artery pressure in neonates. There were 21 patients with a mean age of 16.5 days (ranges 7 days to 1 month) and a mean body weight of 3.3 kg. The invasive radial artery pressures were recorded on a strip chart and comparisons were made between the... |
More recently, several studies of newborns involving ABR testing have demonstrated abnormalities following an exposure to moderate or severe hyperbilirubinemia. Jaundice in the early neonatal period is associated with significant transient aberrations of ABR, which suggested transient brain- stem encephalopathy. So, many authors mentioned that ABR may be a useful tool for the monitoring of early biliubin toxicity in infants who were at risk... |
Comparison of urinary specific gravity by refractometer and osmolality in 238 neonates demonstrated as followings; 1) The regression line is represented by the equation: Y = 107+14.2 (X-1000) while Y = osmolality in mosm/kg X = Specific gravity by refractometer r=0.8545 2) Osmolality is the only accurate measure of urine concentration in newborn infants. If the specific gravity by refractometer is used to screen for urine concentration, an elevated level... |
Free fatty acids, lipase activy and β-glucuronidase activity were measured in samples of breast milk collected from mothers of infants with and without breast milk jaundice. The free fatty acids, lipase and β-glucuronidase values in the breast milk from mothers with jaundiced infants were 7.5 ±6.5 mM/L, 5.3 ±3.2 mM/min/ml and 14.6 ±9.6 nM/min/ml respectively. In the group of mothers of infants without jaundice,... |
We studied clinically on changing pattern of 256 patients with typhoid fever in children, who were hospitalized in the Department of Pediatrics Hanyang University Hospital for 14 years 8 months from May 1972 to December 1986. We divied two group: one, in the seventies (1972-1979), 175 patients; the other, in the eighties (1980 -1986), 81 patients and compared with each other. The results were as... |
In order to elucidate clinical and laboratory findings of the iron deficiency anemia(IDA) in childhood along with diagnostic significance of serum ferritin, 207 patients were analyzed retrospec- tively, who were hospitalized at Department of Pediatrics, Kyung Hee University Hospital from January 1981 to December 1986. The results were as follows; 1) The incidence of IDA in In-Patient was 1.6%. 2) The sex ratio of male to female was... |
We studied the incidence of the arrhythmia in 10 children with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries diagnosed during the period from May 1986 to July 1987. Patient age ranged from 1 to 15 years. On the 12 leads surface electrocardiogram, there were complete atrioventricular block in one child and wide P wave in two. On the 24-hour electrocar- diogram, there were sinus... |
There had been total 21 children with end stage renal disease in whom hemodialysis was done in the pediatric dialysis unit of Seoul National University Children’s Hospital during the period from 1986. 3. 31 to 1987. 11. 30. And we took a retrospective review of their clinical data, and the results were as follows 1) Primary glomerular disease, H enoch-Schdnlein nephritis, and reflux nephropathy were... |
34 patients with growth hormone (GH) deficiency were studied. The affected males outnumber females in a proportion of 1.8 to 1. The chronological ages on diagnosis was average 9.4 years old and bone age was delayed with average 6.6 years old. The major cause of GH deficiency was idiopathic and organic causes such as craniopharyngioma, germinoma & Tb. meningitis were relatively uncommon. Cerebral anoxia seemed... |
The treatment of acute leukemia in childhood has been increasingly successful due to progression of chemotherapeutics and other supportive care. Improved survival rates in acute childhood leukemia have been associated with an increasing number of complications in the gastrointestinal tract. Typhlitis also known as ileocecal syndrome is a necrotizing inflammation of the cecum in leukemic patients on chemotherapy in the terminal stage of the... |
A case of fatal pulmonary candidiasis was diagnosed at autopsy of 5-month-old female infant. Patient had mild coughing, poor weight gain and marked hepatosplenomegaly. She had no sign of immune dysfunction but developed fever, wheezing and intermittent respiratory distress. Chest P-A showed infiltrations of multiple lobar pneumonia. Postmortem examination revealed the whitish necrotic mass like lesion with a feature of lobar pneumonic consolidation in... |
Congenital nephrotic syndrome is an uncommon disorder, which is caused by a heterogenous group of renal diseases with variable etiology and natural history. It may be inherited, sporadic, acquird or a part of a general malformation syndrome. This disorder has no single or pathological feature for pathognomonic finding, and there is no ultimate curative treatment except renal transplantation. We experienced a case of congenital... |
We herein experienced two cases of idiopathic hypercalciuria in a 4 year old boy and 8 year old boy who had asymptomatic gross hematuria. Diagnosis was made by a urinary calcium excretion of more than 4 mg per kilogram of body weight per 24 hours and by a urinary calcium-creatinine ratio of more than 0.21, under situation that specific etiology of hypercalciuria was not... |
Incontinentia pigmenti is a complex hereditary syndrome in which vesicular, verrucous and pigmented cutaneous lesions are associated with developmental defects of the eye, skeletal system and central nervous system. A case of incontinentia pigmenti associated with convulsions, Block-Sulzberger type, is presented with a review of related literatures. The patient was a 40 day-old female infant with convulsions and verrucous, dark brown pigmented lesions on the trunk... |
Few documented cases of Familial dysautonomia fulfilling current diagnostic criteria have been recognized in non-Jews especially in orientals. In our case diagnosis was established in 8 year old Korean girl. She fulfilled 8 out of 9 essential diagnostic criteria of Riley. It represents a report of this syndrome with achalasia and improved with modified Heller’s myotomy. |
Waardenburg's syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder which is characterized by (1) lateral displacement of the medial canthi of the eyes and the inferior lacrimal puncta. (2) a broad, prominent root of the nose (3) hyperplasia of the medial portions of the eyebrows (4) white or grey forelock (5) partial or total heterochromia of the irides and (6) deaf-mutism. The authors experienced 2... |