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Gut and Liver ; : 306-312, 2014.
Article in English | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-163236

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND/AIMS: We investigated the efficacy of prophylactic pancreatic stent placement for preventing postprocedure pancreatitis in patients undergoing endoscopic papillectomy. METHODS: This retrospective study included 82 consecutive patients who underwent endoscopic papillectomy for benign ampullary neoplasm at Samsung Medical Center between August 2002 and June 2011. The patients were subdivided into two groups, namely, those who received prophylactic pancreatic stent placement and those who did not. Patient demographics, baseline blood test, tumor characteristics, and endoscopic treatment data were collected. The primary endpoint was postprocedure pancreatitis. RESULTS: There was no difference in the development of postprocedure pancreatitis between the stent group and the no stent group (6/54, 10.5% and 2/28, 7.14%, respectively; p=1.00). At baseline, there were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of their risk factors for pancreatitis except pancreatic duct dye injection. The stent group was more likely to have dye injection than the nonstent group (100% vs 42.8%, p<0.001). However, in a logistic regression analysis, no significant difference was observed in the risk factors for pancreatitis including dye injection. CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggest that routine prophylactic pancreatic duct stent placement in all patients undergoing endoscopic papillectomy may not be necessary and that large-scale prospective studies are required to identify the subgroup of patients who would benefit.


Subject(s)
Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Ampulla of Vater/surgery , Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde , Common Bile Duct Neoplasms/surgery , Endoscopy/methods , Pancreatic Ducts/surgery , Pancreatitis/prevention & control , Postoperative Complications/prevention & control , Retrospective Studies , Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic/methods , Stents
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Article in English | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-29893

ABSTRACT

It is expected that the stent graft will become an alternative method for treating aortic diseases or reducing the extent of surgery; therefore, thoracic endovascular aortic repair has widened its indications. However, it can have rare but serious complications such as paraplegia and retrograde type A aortic dissection. Here, we report a surgical repair of retrograde type A aortic dissection that was performed after thoracic endovascular aortic repair.


Subject(s)
Aortic Diseases , Blood Vessel Prosthesis , Paraplegia , Stents
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-154553

ABSTRACT

Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma is a rare tumor with no characteristic symptoms. It is frequently misdiagnosed as pulmonary embolism. We report a case of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma in a 48-year-old man with dyspnea, cough and blood-tinged sputum. He was initially suspected and treated as a pulmonary embolism. Computed tomography of the chest showed filling defects occupying the entire luminal diameter of the right and left pulmonary artery as well as extraluminal extension of the intraluminal mass. Surgical resection of the tumor confirmed pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma. After surgery, he received 8 cycles of combined chemotherapy consisting of doxorubicin and ifosfamide. After 8 cycles, Computed tomography of the chest showed interval regression of the residual tumor. Radiotherapy was done as total 6,000 cGy for 5 weeks, following the 8th chemotherapy. The patient's condition was successfully stabilized with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.


Subject(s)
Humans , Middle Aged , Chemotherapy, Adjuvant , Cough , Doxorubicin , Dyspnea , Ifosfamide , Neoplasm, Residual , Phenobarbital , Pulmonary Artery , Pulmonary Embolism , Sarcoma , Sputum , Thorax , Vascular Neoplasms
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-127453

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: Coronary artery disease is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in dialysis patients. Some observational studies proposed that coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) might provide higher survival benefit than percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in dialysis patients. There were not many studies of the comparison between the methods of coronary artery reperfusion therapy. Therefore, we compared the long term survival between PCI and CABG groups in dialysis patients. METHODS: We selected 104 patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) who had PCI (N=75) or CABG (N=29) in Ilsan-Paik Hospital from December 1999 to February 2010. We collected data from medical records and performed a retrospective analysis in ESRD patients hospitalized for the first coronary revascularization procedure. RESULTS: There was no difference in the basic characteristics between the two groups. However, the frequency of more than 3-vessel lesions or less than 30% ejection fraction was higher in the group of CABG than that of PCI. One and three-year survival rates were higher in the PCI group than those in the CABG group. However, there was no difference in the 5 year survival rate between the groups. In subgroup analysis for severe patients with 3-vessel coronary diseases or less than 30% of ejection fraction, there were no statistical differences in the 1, 3 and 5 year survival rates between the groups. In subgroup analysis for the patients maintaining dialysis more than three months, 1, 3, and 5 year survival rates were not statistically different. CONCLUSION: In ESRD and dialysis patients, there was no difference in the long-term survival between PCI and CABG.


Subject(s)
Humans , Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary , Coronary Artery Bypass , Coronary Artery Disease , Coronary Disease , Coronary Vessels , Dialysis , Kidney Failure, Chronic , Medical Records , Percutaneous Coronary Intervention , Reperfusion , Retrospective Studies , Survival Rate , Transplants
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Article in English | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-111072

ABSTRACT

A 55-year-old man with massive pulmonary thromboembolism underwent thrombolysis, pulmonary artery embolectomy and tricuspid annuloplasty. Nine months later, a mobile echogenic intra-cardiac mass was found in the tricuspid valve. Because the patient had undergone annuloplasty, thrombosis was suspected as the most likely diagnosis and thrombolytic therapy was instituted. However, the size of the cardiac mass did not change and after surgical excision the mass was found to be a myxoma. Cardiac valvular tumors are uncommon and when they occur they are usually slow growing fibroelastomas. In this case, the rapid growing cardiac myxoma on the tricuspid valve was found after the occurrence of pulmonary thromboembolism. To our knowledge, this is first reported case of tricuspid valve myxoma in Korea.


Subject(s)
Humans , Middle Aged , Embolectomy , Korea , Myxoma , Pulmonary Artery , Pulmonary Embolism , Thrombolytic Therapy , Thrombosis , Tricuspid Valve
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Article in English | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-161043

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Regardless of the preoperative morphology and the type of operation, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) after biventricular repair of double outlet right ventricle (DORV) may develop. This report presents our 10-yr experience with surgical management of LVOTO after biventricular repair of DORV. Between 1996 and 2006, 15 patients underwent reoperation for subaortic stenosis after biventricular repair of DORV. The mean age at biventricular repair was 23.3+/-18.3 months (1.1-64.2). Biventricular repairs included tunnel constructions from the left ventricle to the aorta in 14 cases and an arterial switch operation in one. The mean left ventricle-to-aorta peak pressure gradient was 54.0+/-37.7 mmHg (15-140) after a mean follow-up of 9.5+/-6.3 yr. We performed extended septoplasty in nine patients and fibromuscular resection in six. There were no early or late mortality. There was one heart block and one aortic valve injury after an extended septoplasty, and two and one after a fibromuscular resection. No patient required reoperation for recurrent subaortic stenosis. The mean pressure gradient was 11.2+/-11.4 mmHg (0-34) after a mean follow-up of 5.6+/-2.7 yr. Extended septoplasty is a safe and effective method for the treatment of subaortic stenosis, especially in cases with a long-tunnel shaped LVOTO.


Subject(s)
Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Blood Pressure/physiology , Double Outlet Right Ventricle/pathology , Heart Defects, Congenital/pathology , Postoperative Complications/surgery , Reoperation , Retrospective Studies , Treatment Outcome , Ventricular Outflow Obstruction/etiology
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Korean Journal of Medicine ; : S70-S75, 2009.
Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-105027

ABSTRACT

Multiple mycotic pseudoaneurysms that develop after aortic surgery are a rare infectious complication. The clinical course of this disease is severe and associated with a high mortality. Few published cases have described mycotic pseudoaneurysms that are localized mainly in the brain, heart, and aorta. In this case, a 33-year-old woman was admitted with abdominal pain and mild fever after graft surgery for a ruptured thoracic aorta that occurred following a vehicle accident. Thoracoabdominal computed tomography (CT), angiography, and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) demonstrated multiple pseudoaneurysms and thromboembolic obstructions in the thoracic aorta and its branches. She was treated with anticoagulation, coil embolization, and surgical resection. Microscopically, a resected pseudoaneurysm showed the characteristic features of fungal colonies with thrombi. This patient has been well for 2 months after removing the pseudoaneurysms and treatment with systemic antifungal agents.


Subject(s)
Adult , Female , Humans , Abdominal Pain , Aneurysm, False , Angiography , Antifungal Agents , Aorta , Aorta, Thoracic , Brain , Echocardiography, Transesophageal , Fever , Heart , Thromboembolism , Transplants
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-209116

ABSTRACT

A stent graft has been accepted as an alternative method for treating aortic diseases or to reduce the extent of surgery. We report here on a one-stage Management of Ascending Aorta Replacement and Percutaneous Endovascular Repair for the seperate aneurysmal lesions on the ascending and descending aorta.


Subject(s)
Aneurysm , Aorta , Aortic Aneurysm , Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic , Aortic Diseases , Stents , Transplants
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Infection and Chemotherapy ; : 289-292, 2009.
Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-722180

ABSTRACT

Although Staphylococcus epidermidis is a frequent cause of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE), it is regarded as a rare pathogen of native valve endocarditis (NVE). We report a case of NVE caused by methicillin-resistant S. epidermidis in a 62-year-old man. The bacterium was isolated from blood and tissue culture. The patient underwent valve replacement due to heart failure and was successfully treated by surgery and vancomycin administration for 7 weeks.


Subject(s)
Humans , Middle Aged , Endocarditis , Heart Failure , Methicillin Resistance , Staphylococcus , Staphylococcus epidermidis , Vancomycin
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Infection and Chemotherapy ; : 289-292, 2009.
Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-721675

ABSTRACT

Although Staphylococcus epidermidis is a frequent cause of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE), it is regarded as a rare pathogen of native valve endocarditis (NVE). We report a case of NVE caused by methicillin-resistant S. epidermidis in a 62-year-old man. The bacterium was isolated from blood and tissue culture. The patient underwent valve replacement due to heart failure and was successfully treated by surgery and vancomycin administration for 7 weeks.


Subject(s)
Humans , Middle Aged , Endocarditis , Heart Failure , Methicillin Resistance , Staphylococcus , Staphylococcus epidermidis , Vancomycin
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-62282

ABSTRACT

Multiple coronary aneurysms are rare in adults. The cause may be atherosclerosis, congenital malformations, post-traumatic or post-syphilitic vascular lesions, connective tissue diseases like Marfan and Ehler-Danlos syndromes or Kawasaki disease, all of which cause weakening of the media. Surgical intervention is indicated to prevent rupture, embolization or compression symptoms. The successful management of multiple coronary artery aneurysms, associated with previous rupture and arrhythmia, originating from proximal potions of ramus intermedius and left circumflex artery are reported.


Subject(s)
Adult , Humans , Aneurysm , Arrhythmias, Cardiac , Arteries , Atherosclerosis , Connective Tissue Diseases , Coronary Aneurysm , Coronary Artery Bypass , Coronary Vessels , Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome , Rupture
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-98585

ABSTRACT

Low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (LGFM) is a rare, deep soft-tissue malignant tumor. Although its histologic features are benign, the clinical course is malignant. The usual tumor locations are the lower extremity and chest wall. LGFM originating from the visceral pleura is extremely rare. We report here on a 37 year old man with a LGFM of the visceral pleura. Thirty three months after surgery, the patient is alive without any sign of local recurrence or distant metastasis.


Subject(s)
Humans , Lower Extremity , Pleura , Pleural Neoplasms , Recurrence , Sarcoma , Thoracic Wall
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Korean Circulation Journal ; : 339-342, 2008.
Article in English | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-121053

ABSTRACT

Femoral arterial closure devices are now commonly used after both diagnostic and therapeutic coronary procedures. They have been shown to reduce the time to ambulation and to decrease the length of the hospital stay. Angioseal is a commercially available femoral artery closure device that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The device sandwiches an intra-arterial absorbable anchor on the luminal side of the vessel and a thrombin plug on the surface of the vessel with using a self-cinching stitch. We report here on three patients who presented with acute and delayed arterial occlusive complications that were found to be due to an Angioseal anchor that was not appropriately reabsorbed.


Subject(s)
Humans , Femoral Artery , Glycosaminoglycans , Length of Stay , Phenobarbital , Thrombin , United States Food and Drug Administration , Walking
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-116417

ABSTRACT

Bezoars are the most common foreign bodies in the stomach as seen endoscopically with a frequency of approximately 0.4%. They consist of persistent concretions or hard accumulations of non-digestible vegetable matter, hair or more unusual materials. Gastric bezoars develop in patients with previous gastric surgery, gastric outlet obstruction, or poor gastric emptying such as gastroparesis due to hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus or mixed connective tissue disease. The clinical presentations of gastric bezoars include epigastric pain, a palpable mass, a gastrointestinal obstruction and peptic ulceration. The treatment options include surgery, enzymatic dissolution or endoscopic mechanical fragmentation and/or removal. Recently, the efficacy of the administration or lavage of 'Coca-Cola' for the effective dissolution of gastric bezoars has been reported. We report a case of a 27-year-old woman with a large gastric bezoar that was successfully removed by the direct endoscopic injection of a carbonated beverage ('Coca-Cola light', a sugar free product; Coca cola Co., Seoul, South Korea) into the bezoar, which led to fragmentatio


Subject(s)
Adult , Female , Humans , Bezoars , Carbonated Beverages , Coca , Cola , Diabetes Mellitus , Endoscopy , Foreign Bodies , Gastric Emptying , Gastric Outlet Obstruction , Gastroparesis , Hair , Hypothyroidism , Mixed Connective Tissue Disease , Peptic Ulcer , Seoul , Stomach , Therapeutic Irrigation , Vegetables
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Korean Journal of Medicine ; : 342-345, 2007.
Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-96886

ABSTRACT

Nocardiosis is a rare opportunistic bacterial infection. The majority of nocardial infections are acquired through inhalation and smaller numbers of cutaneous nocardiosis are caused by traumatic inoculation of organisms percutaneously. We experienced a patient with lung cancer that developed a primary cutaneous nocardiosis. A 57-year-old man was admitted to the Samsung Medical Center because of a painful swelling lesion of the right foot that developed 3 weeks prior. Three months prior, the patient had been diagnosed with a non-small cell lung cancer, and then underwent palliative bronchial stent insertion, radiation therapy and corticosteroid treatment for an obstructive endobronchial lesion. Incision and drainage was performed as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the foot showed an abscess cavity. Nocardia was isolated from the pus. The antibiotic therapy was changed to oral trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) treatment. The skin lesion was improving and the patient was discharged 20 days later. TMP/SMX was continued for a total of three months. The patient has been in good health and the skin lesion had completely healed two months after discharge.


Subject(s)
Humans , Middle Aged , Abscess , Bacterial Infections , Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung , Drainage , Foot , Inhalation , Lung Neoplasms , Lung , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Nocardia , Nocardia Infections , Skin , Stents , Sulfamethoxazole , Suppuration
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-35213

ABSTRACT

A complete tracheal rupture due to blunt trauma is rare, and a high proportion of patients with this injury die prior to arrival at medical centers. Early diagnosis and prompt management is essential in order to reduce morbidity and mortality. A 38-year-old woman visited the emergency department after a fall from the 4th floor of a building. We confirmed that a complete tracheal disruption 4 cm above the carina by chest CT. We could not insert an endotracheal tube because the distal stump of the trachea was separated by 4 cm from the proximal stump, so we used percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass for the prevention of hypoxia during the initial operative procedures. We performed resections and reconstruction of the injured trachea. Fourteen days after the operation we confirmed normal healing of the trachea with bronchoscopy. One year after the operation, the patient is healthy with no tracheal problems.


Subject(s)
Adult , Female , Humans , Hypoxia , Bronchoscopy , Cardiopulmonary Bypass , Early Diagnosis , Emergency Service, Hospital , Extracorporeal Circulation , Mortality , Multiple Trauma , Rupture , Surgical Procedures, Operative , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Trachea
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-118420

ABSTRACT

Intramural hematoma of the cardiac muscle is a rare clinical condition. Only a few cases have been reported in the medicosurgical conditions related to post cardiac surgery, chest trauma and dissecting aneurysms of the aorta. Moreover, there are few cases of spontaneous left atrial intramural hematoma and they may occur in the medical conditions related to calcified mitral annulus dissection or amyloidosis. We experienced a case of spontaneous intramural left atrial hematoma in a 29 year-old male resulting in vaso-occlusive cardiogenic shock. We report the clinical manifestation and treatment of this case with a review of literatures.


Subject(s)
Adult , Humans , Male , Amyloidosis , Aortic Dissection , Aorta , Heart Atria , Hematoma , Myocardium , Shock, Cardiogenic , Thoracic Surgery , Thorax
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-128591

ABSTRACT

The operative case of transmanubrial osteomuscular sparing approach for the tumor involving thoracic inlet is reported. A 69-year-old man visited the hospital due to right upper extremity weakness. Chest roentgenogram showed bronchiectasis, chronic pulmonary tuberculosis, and fungal ball in right upper lobe. On computed tomogram, tumor was located in epidural space of the 6th, the 7th cervical, and the 1st thoracic spine and extended to the apex of the right thorax. A neurosurgeon performed laminectomy and removed the tumor located in the spinal canal. A thoracic surgeon performed a transmanubrial osteomuscular sparing approach and removed the tumor involving thoracic inlet. The tumor was diagnosed as hemangiopericytoma. The patient recovered without complication.


Subject(s)
Aged , Humans , Bays , Bronchiectasis , Epidural Space , Hemangiopericytoma , Laminectomy , Spinal Canal , Spine , Thorax , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary , Upper Extremity
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Korean Journal of Medicine ; : 419-423, 2005.
Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-66020

ABSTRACT

Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection caused by the soil fungus Coccidioides immitis, which is endemic to the south-western United States. Increasingly, cases are being recognized outside the endemic area, due to travelers who have visited the endemic area. Here, we report a case of pulmonary coccidioidomycosis in a Korean man who has traveled in Arizona, U.S.A. Cardinal clinical symptoms were fever, central lung mass with mediastinal lymphadenopathy on the chest X-ray which mimicked lung cancer, and a 14% eosinophilia in the peripheral blood. Coccidioidomycosis was diagnosed by serology and mediastinoscopic biopsy by identifying typical spherules. The symptoms disappeared spontaneously without specific treatment. Coccidioidomycosis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary infiltrates with peripheral eosinophilia, especially if patient has lived in or visited endemic area.


Subject(s)
Humans , Arizona , Biopsy , Coccidioides , Coccidioidomycosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Eosinophilia , Fever , Fungi , Lung Neoplasms , Lung , Lymphatic Diseases , Soil , Thorax , United States
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Article in Korean | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-68900

ABSTRACT

The conformation of traumatic diaphragmatic rupture is frequently difficult, even if radiologic evaluation has been performed. A 37-year old man with multiple trauma was suspicious with diaphragmatic rupture. The diaphragmatic rupture could not be confirmed with chest CT. We decided thoracoscopic operation for diagnosis. Diaphragm was ruptured about 8 cm length involving entering site of phrenic nerve into diaphragm and diaphragmatic paralysis was combined. We made 5 cm sized working window additionally. Ruptured diaphragm was repaired by continuous suture and plication of diaphragm was performed. Postoperative result was good at chest radiogram after three monthes.


Subject(s)
Adult , Humans , Diagnosis , Diaphragm , Multiple Trauma , Phrenic Nerve , Respiratory Paralysis , Rupture , Sutures , Thoracoscopy , Thorax , Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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