Persistent hypotony following Tanito microhook trabeculotomy (TMH) is rare but may occur due to the development of cyclodialysis clefts. We report a case of a Japanese man in his 40s who developed persistent hypotony and hypotony maculopathy after TMH in the left eye. Fourteen months after the surgery, the patient was referred to our institution due to prolonged hypotony that remained undiagnosed and untreated despite evaluations with gonioscopy and anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) at the referring clinic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastrointestinal (GI) metastases from lung cancer are relatively rare, and their management strategies and outcomes in the era of immune checkpoint inhibitors are unknown. A 59-year-old man with lung cancer was hospitalized. He presented with vomiting due to a small intestinal metastasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The PACIFIC trial established standard therapy for patients with unresectable stage III NSCLC who did not progress after platinum-based concurrent chemoradiation therapy. However, real-world data, particularly from Latin America, remain limited. The LACOG 0120 study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of consolidation therapy with durvalumab in a real-world setting in Brazil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe proposed a novel ligand for the interaction with human serum albumin (HSA) to extend the blood half-life of small molecular weight therapeutics. The ligand features an alkyl chain and an activated disulfide to allow binding to the hydrophobic pockets of HSA and the formation of disulfide to Cys34 of HSA, thereby minimizing the initial renal clearance. The dual nature of the ligand-HSA bonding was expected to give the ligand long blood retention.
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