Publications by authors named "A Watanabe"
Introduction: The profile of genetic and nongenetic factors associated with progression to kidney failure (KF) in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) is largely unknown in admixed populations.
Methods: A total of 101 pediatric patients with primary SRNS were genetically assessed targeting Mendelian causes and status with a 62-NS-gene panel or whole exome sequencing, as well as genetic ancestry. Variant pathogenicity was evaluated using the American College Medical of Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) criteria.
An 83-year-old man presented with persistent fever after intravesical BCG therapy for bladder cancer. Chest computed tomography (CT) and bronchoscopy revealed diffuse ground-glass opacities with multiple micronodules and lymphocyte-predominant bronchoalveolar lavage fluid with a high CD4/CD8 ratio, respectively. Therefore, corticotherapy for interstitial pneumonia was initiated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 76-year-old man presented after aspiration of a crown during dental treatment. He had no immediate symptoms;therefore, the crown was not thoroughly examined at the time of the event. The patient developed high fever and chest pain and sought medical attention, 9 months later.
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- A study was conducted to evaluate how effective a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) and image processing analysis are at detecting oral cancers using non-invasive fluorescence visualization, involving 1,076 patients with various oral conditions.
- The study found that fluorescence visualization loss (FVL) was highly effective in identifying oral cancer, with rates of sensitivity at 96.9% and specificity at 77.3%, while the DCNN showed overall high recall and precision for classifying different oral diseases.
- The results indicated that the DCNN achieved an impressive sensitivity of 98% and specificity of 92.7% for detecting oral cancer, with an average accuracy across all lesions of 85.1%.