Myongji Hospital opens ICU to treat liver diseases Myongji Hospital said it has opened a Liver Intensive Care Unit (LICU) and started its full-scale operation. The LICU, which consists of four sickbeds in separate rooms, has a monitor that can intensively control each patient and a bed for their intensive care, detecting changes in the patient's weight. Patients with cirrhosis and liver failure ..

‘Standardization of diagnostic, clinical guidelines needed to treat long Covid’ Many people recovering from Covid-19 complain about aftereffects, but there are no standardized diagnostic criteria or treatment guidelines, confusing clinical fields, according to medical workers. The larger the number of Covid-19 patients, the more the people suffering from long Covid, with some experiencing its af..

‘Impotency drug effective in controlling diabetics’ blood sugar’ A research team at Myongji Hospital has proved that taking a low dose (5 mg) of tadalafil, an erectile dysfunction drug, effectively controls blood sugar. According to Myongji researchers, chronic hyperglycemia caused by insufficient insulin secretion or dysfunction, a characteristic of diabetes, is a metabolic disease that is a co..

Myongji Hospital to hold sports medicine symposium Myongji Hospital's Sports Medicine Center said that it would hold the third Myongji Hospital Sports Medicine Symposium on Sunday. The hospital will hold the symposium online through YouTube, and only those who have registered in advance can participate. Under the theme of "History, Present and Future of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstru..

노력해도 빠지지 않는 살, 이유 따로 있다 명지병원 이민경 교수, 호르몬 이상으로 살이 찌는 쿠싱증후군 상체는 비대, 팔다리는 빈약한 거미형 체형... 다양한 합병증 뒤따라 ​ 현대 사회에서 비만은 많은 사람들의 고민거리 중 하나다. 특히 최근 2년간 코로나19로 외부활동이나 운동시설 이용이 제한되고, 재택근무나 원격학습 등 집에 머무르는 시간이 늘어나면서 비만율이 급증했다. 실제로 통계청이 발표한 '국민 삶의 질 2021 보고서'에 따르면 코로나19가 확산한 2020년 비만율은 38.3%로 전년보다 4.5% 증가한 것으로 조사됐다. 이렇다보니 집에서 운동하는 홈트레이닝이나 식이조절용 밀키트 등이 유행하며 저마다의 방법으로 다이어트를 위한 노력을 이어가고 있다. 그런데 충분한 운동과 식이요법 등 아무리 ..

‘Nearly 2/3 of cured Covid-19 patients have three or more symptoms’ Myongji Hospital reported Friday that 65 percent of Covid-19 patients who had finished quarantine and visited the hospital due to aftereffects had more than three symptoms. A survey conducted by Myongji Hospital has found that more than half of patients released from quarantine who visited the hospital had at least three afteref..

Myongji Hospital expands operation of long covid clinic Myongji Hospital has expanded and reorganized its long Covid clinic by introducing a system to treat both subacute Covid-19 patients and those released from quarantine but suffering from aftereffects. Myongji Hospital in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, has expanded its Covid-19 Sequelae Clinic to treat subacute patients and patients suffering fr..

Nine foreign trainees finish Myongji Hospital’s 1st quarantine expert course 2022.3.24 Myongji Hospital said Friday that it has educated nine medical doctors and researchers from four countries as infectious disease experts by transferring the “K-quarantine” know-how. Myongji Hospital Chairman Lee Wang-jun (center at top row), hospital staff, and Lee Jong-wook Fellowship Program Infectious Disea..

‘Hospitals should establish long Covid treatment guideline’ As the Omicron infections rapidly push up the number of Covid-19 cases, many suffer from long Covid symptoms. While there are not many hospitals to treat post-Covid-19 conditions, Myongji Hospital on Monday opened “Post Covid-19 Syndrome Clinic” to provide care for those with long Covid symptoms. The hospital said that the clinic built ..

Myongji Hospital sets about to tackle long covid 2021. 3. 21 As the cumulative caseload of Covid-19 exceeds 7 million in Korea, Myongji Hospital has opened the “Long Covid Clinic,” which will treat patients cured of Covid-19 but suffer from its aftereffects. The clinic, the first such one responsible for long covid, will treat various aftereffects Covid-19 patients suffer after recovery, the hos..