Kyung Hwan Kim

BACKGROUND: South Korea took preemptive action against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by implementing extensive testing, thorough epidemiological investigation, strict social distancing, and rapid treatment of patients according to disease severity. The Korean government entrusted large-scale hospitals with the operation of living and treatment support centers (LTSCs) for the management for clinically healthy COVID-19 patients. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to introduce our experience impl

Tacrolimus is metabolized by CYP3A and has highly variable pharmacokinetics. To study the factors contributing to this high variability in pharmacokinetics and to investigate the possibility of genotype-specific clinical applications, the effect of differing CYP3A5 genotypes on the intrasubject coefficients of variation for tacrolimus was investigated. Genotyping for CYP3A5*3 was performed in healthy volunteers who had previously participated in the pharmacokinetic study of 2 tacrolimus formulat

Patients with untreated trivial or mild functional TR accompanied by mitral valve disease can develop significant TR during follow-up. TV ring annuloplasty can be performed without complications and can be beneficial for patients with trivial or mild functional TR who are undergoing MVR.

본 연구에서는 늙은호박(Cucurbita moschata Duch.)의 부위별 항산화 효과 및 생리활성을 평가하기 위하여 잎과 과피, 과육과 씨 네 부분으로 나누어 일반성분을 측정하고, 환류 추출과 감압농축 및 동결건조를 통하여 분말을 얻은 후 실험에 사용하였다. 호박의 부위별 총 폴리페놀 함량은 잎이 <TEX>$29.62{\pm}0.88mg$</TEX> GAE/g DM로 가장 높게 측정되었다. 플라보노이드 함량도 잎이 가장 높고 과피, 과육, 씨의 순서로 측정되어 폴리페놀 함량과 같은 경향을 보였다. DPPH radical 소거 활성과 ABTS radical 소거 활성에서 SC50값을 측정하였을 때는 잎에서 가장 높은 소거 활성을 나타내었다(DPPH: <TEX>$1.27{\pm}0.14$</TEX>, ABTS: <TEX>$2.28{\pm}0.05$</TEX>). FRAP assay를 이용한 환원력을 실험한 결과에서도 잎에서 가장 높은 환원력이 관찰되었다. 한편, 생리활성적인 측면

We describe a case of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in a male adult with lung cancer. To achieve the successful operation of lung cancer, we used percutaneous veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) during whole lung lavage (WLL) of the contralateral lung. We performed successful WLL under ECMO support.

In this era of primary PCI, the prognostic impact of HAVB is different according to the location of infarction. Because of recent improvements in reperfusion strategy, the negative prognostic impact of HAVB in inferior STEMI is no longer prominent.

Elevated Ca(2+) concentrations within the pancreatic acinar cells represent a risk factor for the development of acute pancreatitis. Apoptosis is an important characteristic of pancreatitis, with induction of apoptotic genes and intraceullar increase of calcium, endonucleases, and protease. The present study, which aims to investigate whether (1) cerulein induces apoptotic gene expression (bax, bid, p53) in pancreatic acinar AR42J cells and (2) cerulein-induced gene expression is mediated by int

Smoking is an important variable for clinical research, but there are few studies regarding automatic obtainment of smoking classification from unstructured bilingual electronic health records (EHR). We aim to develop an algorithm to classify smoking status based on unstructured EHRs using natural language processing (NLP). With acronym replacement and Python package Soynlp, we normalize 4711 bilingual clinical notes. Each EHR notes was classified into 4 categories: current smokers, past smokers

BACKGROUND: Digital health care is an important strategy in the war against COVID-19. South Korea introduced living and treatment support centers (LTSCs) to control regional outbreaks and care for patients with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19. Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) introduced information and communications technology (ICT)-based solutions to manage clinically healthy patients with COVID-19. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate satisfaction and usability by patients and hea