We report the case of a 30-year-old woman with delayed postanoxic encephalopathy and visual field disturbance caused by strangulation. Although she was normal up to the sixth day after strangulation, she developed quadrantic hemianopia on the seventh day. The results of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed high-intensity T(2) and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) signals in the bilateral striatum; on the basis of these findings, she was diagnosed with delayed postanoxic encephalopathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAt the age of 20 years, a Japanese man with recurrent oral aphthae, genital ulcers, folliculitis, erythema nodosum, episodic arthritis and epididymitis was diagnosed as having Behcet's disease (BD) in 1966. He has had active ocular manifestations of BD since 1990. These symptoms recurred and never abated for a long period of time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 53-year-old woman with moderate aplastic anemia (AA) was treated with antithymocyte globulin (ATG). However, on the 4th day of treatment, ATG was discontinued because of bloody vomiting and melena. The patient improved with conservative treatment but complained of abdominal pain when the prednisolone (PSL) dose was decreased.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 21-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our hospital because of severe anemia and thrombocytopenia. Bone marrow aspiration showed a hypercellular marrow with 91.5% promyelocytes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 69-year-old women with malignant lymphoma (diffuse large:Working formulation) had associated with intracavital involvement of the right ventricle. The patient was referred to us for further examination with a diagnosis of heart failure. A tumor mass was detected by magnetic resonance imaging in the right ventricular outflow tract.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Japanese male patient with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) was shown to have associated Tn syndrome; the first report of Tn syndrome with MDS. The Tn expression was demonstrated on erythrocytes, granulocytes, monocytes, platelets, and lymphocytes by flow cytometric analysis using a lectin and an antibody. Electrophoresis of erythrocyte membrane proteins revealed slower mobility of glycophorin B from the patient than that from normal individuals, suggesting a glycophorin B molecular abnormality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA patient who represented acute hemolytic crisis was studied. Analysis of the erythrocyte membrane proteins by SDS-PAGE revealed a deficiency of band 4.2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the liver is reported in a 79-year-old man. The tumor, measuring 8.0 x 8.
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