High incidence of acute kidney injury in extracorporeal resuscitation, Leading to poor prognosis.

Background: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) patients have a high incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI). Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) patients are more likely to develop AKI than ECMO patients because of serious injury during cardiac arrest (CA).

Objectives: This study aims to assess the occurrence and outcomes of AKI in ECPR and ECMO, and to identify specific risk factors and clinical implications of AKI in ECPR.

Electrical Cartridge Sensor Enables Reliable and Direct Identification of MicroRNAs in Urine of Patients.

Urinary miRNAs are biomarkers that demonstrate considerable promise for the noninvasive diagnosis and prognosis of diseases. However, because of background noise resulting from complex physiological features of urine, instability of miRNAs, and their low concentration, accurate monitoring of miRNAs in urine is challenging. To address these limitations, we developed a urine-based disposable and switchable electrical sensor that enables reliable and direct identification of miRNAs in patient urine.

Manganese-Doped Tin Oxide for Highly Flexible and Transparent Multilayer Electrodes with Index-Matching Layers.

We fabricated transparent Mn (2.59 wt.%)-doped tin oxide (MTO)/Ag/MTO films with refractive index-matching layers (IMLs) on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate.

Oxygen Concentration Dependence of the Optical and Electrical Properties of Mn-Doped Tin Oxide Thin Films Deposited on a Polyethylene Terephthalate Substrate.

Mn (2.59 wt.%)-doped tin oxide (MTO) was deposited on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate using RF magnetron sputtering at room temperature.

A Rho-Associated Coiled-Coil Containing Kinase Inhibitor, Y-27632, Improves Viability of Dissociated Single Cells, Efficiency of Colony Formation, and Cryopreservation in Porcine Pluripotent Stem Cells.

The establishment of porcine epiblast stem cells (pEpiSCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (piPSCs) derived from diametrical derivations is of great importance in developing biomedical models. However, pEpiSCs and piPSCs have been technically much harder to culture than mouse embryonic stem cells, showing problematic properties such as spontaneous differentiation and apoptosis after cryopreservation. Therefore, we demonstrated that Y-27632 as a Rho-associated coiled-coil containing kinase inhibitor could prevent dissociated pEpiSCs and piPSCs from undesirable differentiation and apoptosis in cryopreservation protocols.

Clinical and Laboratory Findings of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.

There is a paucity of data regarding the differentiating characteristics of patients with laboratory-confirmed and those negative for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in South Korea. This hospital-based retrospective study compared MERS-CoV-positive and MERS-CoV-negative patients. A total of seven positive patients and 55 negative patients with a median age of 43 years (P = 0.

Evaluation of a Rapid Molecular Drug-Susceptibility Test for Tuberculosis.

Background: Fluoroquinolones and second-line injectable drugs are the backbone of treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and resistance to these drugs defines extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. We assessed the accuracy of an automated, cartridge-based molecular assay for the detection, directly from sputum specimens, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with resistance to fluoroquinolones, aminoglycosides, and isoniazid.

Methods: We conducted a prospective diagnostic accuracy study to compare the investigational assay against phenotypic drug-susceptibility testing and DNA sequencing among adults in China and South Korea who had symptoms of tuberculosis.

[Missionary Medicine of Canadian Presbytery and Korean Doctors under Japanese Occupation--focusing Sung-jin and Ham-heung].

In East Asia during the second half of the 19th century, overseas mission work by Protestant churches thrived. Missionaries built schools and hospitals and effectively used them for evangelism. In the 20th century when Social Gospel Movement was expanding, medical work has been recognized as a significant mission service in and by itself.

[Formation of medical education in North Korea: 1945-1948].

This study focuses on the formation of medical education in North Korea from 1945 to 1948 in terms of the centralization of medical education, and on the process and significance of the systemization of medical education. Doctors of the past trained under the Japanese colonial system lived and worked as liberalists. More than half of these doctors who were in North Korea defected to South Korea after the country was liberated.

Treatment outcome and mortality among patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in tuberculosis hospitals of the public sector.

This study was conducted to evaluate treatment outcome, mortality, and predictors of both in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at 3 TB referral hospitals in the public sector of Korea. We included MDR-TB patients treated at 3 TB referral hospitals in 2004 and reviewed retrospectively their medical records and mortality data. Of 202 MDR-TB patients, 75 (37.

A comparative evaluation of different compensating curves in the lingual and labial techniques using 3D FEM.

Because adults dislike the visibility of orthodontic appliances, the use of the lingual orthodontic technique has increased over time. But few studies compare tooth movement of the lingual technique with that of the labial technique. In this study, human mandibular left teeth were aligned, and a 3-dimensional finite element model was made (consisting of 19382 nodes and 12150 elements).