Aftermath of Child Sexual Abuse in Children in Korea: Data from the Nation-Funded Sexual Violence Victim Protection Center for Children.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the 3-year mean periods aftermath of child sexual abuse and to compare the sexual violence victims regard to the treatment.

Methods: 682 sexual violence victims were recruited by Seoul Sunflower Children Center, a nation-funded sexual violence victim protection center for children age 13, from 2004 to 2008. Data from 49 victims among 116 consented a follow-up, were analyzed.

Immunohistochemical investigations of the prion protein accumulation in human spongiform encephalopathies. Special report II.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in a proportion of cases may have nonspecific clinical signs and symptoms and no characteristic neuroimaging and EEG picture. Thus, neuropathological studies are mandatory for a diagnosis. However, spongiform change, neuronal loss and astrocyte proliferation--the hallmarks of prion diseases, may also be absent or variable.

Increased ocular pressure in two patients with narrow angle glaucoma treated with venlafaxine.

Venlafaxine blocks the specific monoamine transporters and is devoid of significant action on muscarinic cholinergic receptors. To our knowledge, no cases of glaucoma have been reported so far. Because pain perception involves both serotonergic and noradrenergic mechanisms, venlafaxine also may be useful in neuropathic pain therapy.