Segmental and global longitudinal strain differences between Kawasaki disease and multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children.

Background: Multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children and Kawasaki disease have overlapping clinical features but comparative echocardiographic studies are lacking.

Methods: We reviewed echocardiography findings of all multi-system inflammatory syndrome cases between 1st April and 31st July, 2020 and typical Kawasaki disease patients with coronary arteries abnormalities consecutively followed between 1st October, 2016 and June 30th, 2019.

Results: We included 40 multi-system inflammatory syndrome children (25 males, 62.

Myocardial deformation assessed by CMR in children after multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C).

Background: Short-term sequelae of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), recently published by our institution, showed rapid improvement of the cardiac abnormalities within a few weeks after the onset of the disease. However, subtle residual abnormalities, affecting mainly the myocardial interstitium, were shown in some of the patients. The current study aimed to assess myocardial deformation with CMR shortly after MIS-C.

Algorithm to Estimate the Extended Turnaround Time Including Outpatient Waiting Time for Blood Specimen Collection when a Stand-alone Queue Ticket System not Connectable to Laboratory Information System Is Used.

Background: A queue ticket system (QTS) used in an outpatient phlebotomy clinic was unable to be directly integrated with the laboratory information system (LIS). To monitor patient's waiting time and extended turnaround time (TAT) as patient-centered quality indicators for outpatient laboratory services, we developed an algorithm to integrate data between the QTS and the LIS.

Methods: Between June 1 to September 30, 2017, data files were exported from a QSYS-8000 (HION Tech, Seoul, Korea).

Size of colorectal polyps determines time taken to remove them endoscopically.

Background An Study Aims:  Polypectomy and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) are effective and safe ways of removing polyps from the colon at endoscopy. Guidelines exist for advising the time allocation for diagnostic endoscopy but not for polypectomy and EMR. The aim of this study was to identify if time allocated for polypectomy and EMR at planned therapeutic lists in our endoscopy unit is sufficient for procedures to be carried out.

The role of interleukin 17 in tumour proliferation, angiogenesis, and metastasis.

With 7.6 million deaths globally, cancer according to the World Health Organisation is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Interleukin 17 (IL-17) is a cytokine produced by Th17 cells, a T helper cell subset developed from an activated CD4+ T-cell.

A novel strategy for preserving renal grafts in an ex vivo setting: potential for enhancing the marginal donor pool.

Renal transplantation remains the best treatment option for patients with end-stage renal failure. However, the shortage of renal grafts remains a big challenge. Renal graft ischemic injuries that occur before and after graft retrieval have a devastating effect on graft survival, especially on grafts from marginal donors.

Childhood risk factors in Korean women with anorexia nervosa: two sets of case-control studies with retrospective comparisons.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of the risk factors for anorexia nervosa (AN) in Korean women.

Method: Two sets of case-control comparisons were conducted, in which 52 women with lifetime AN from Seoul, S. Korea, were compared with 108 Korean healthy controls and also with 42 women with lifetime AN from the UK in terms of their childhood risk factors.