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Hemato-oncology
Clinical characteristics and survival of colorectal cancer patients in Korea stratified by age
Sun Kyung Baek, Ji Sung Lee, In Gyu Hwang, Jong Gwang Kim, Tae Won Kim, Seung Kook Sohn, Mi Yeon Kang, Sang-Cheol Lee
Korean J Intern Med. 2021;36(4):985-991. Published online April 6, 2021
Background/Aims: This nationwide study was undertaken to determine differences in clinicopathologic characteristics and survival of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) according to age using big data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS).
Methods: The NHIS data including qualit..
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Nephrology
Relationship between duration of hospital-acquired acute kidney injury and mortality: a prospective observational study
Jinyoung Yoo, Ji Sung Lee, Jiyeon Lee, Jin Seok Jeon, Hyunjin Noh, Dong Cheol Han, Soon Hyo Kwon
Korean J Intern Med. 2015;30(2):205-211. Published online February 27, 2015
Background/Aims: New definitions of acute kidney injury (AKI) have recently emerged. Some studies have suggested that duration of AKI is an additional predictive parameter for mortality. Here, we evaluated whether AKI duration was predictive of long-term mortality in patients with hospital-acquired ..
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Gastroenterology
Recent trends in hepatitis B virus infection in the general Korean population
Hyuck Kim, A Ri Shin, Hoe Hoon Chung, Min Kyoung Kim, Ji Sung Lee, Jae-Jun Shim, Byung-Ho Kim
Korean J Intern Med. 2013;28(4):413-419. Published online July 1, 2013
Background/AimsHepatitis B virus (HBV) is the major cause of chronic liver disease in Korea, but viral prevalence has decreased because of hepatitis B vaccination programs. In this study, we investigated longitudinal changes in HBV in fection in the general Korean population.<..
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Rectal hyposensitivity and functional anorectal outlet obstruction are common entities in patients with functional constipation but are not significantly associated
Tae Hee Lee, Joon Seong Lee, Su Jin Hong, Seong Ran Jeon, Soon Ha Kwon, Wan Jung Kim, Hyun Gun Kim, Won Young Cho, Joo Young Cho, Jin-Oh Kim, Ji Sung Lee
Korean J Intern Med. 2013;28(1):54-61. Published online December 28, 2012
Background/AimsThe causes of functional anorectal outlet obstruction (outlet obstruction) include functional defecation disorder (FDD), rectocele, and rectal intussusception (RI). It is unclear whether outlet obstruction is associated with rectal hyposensitivity (RH) in patien..
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