Effects of Nicorandil Versus Nitroglycerin on Arterial Oxygenation During Two-Lung Ventilation and One-Lung Ventilation in Patients With Risk Factors for Myocardial Ischemia: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study.

Objectives: To compare the effects of nicorandil and nitroglycerin on arterial oxygenation during two-lung ventilation (TLV) and one-lung ventilation (OLV) in patients with risk factors for myocardial ischemia.

Design: A prospective, randomized, double-blind study.

Setting: A tertiary care hospital.

TORSADES DE POINTES ASSOCIATED WITH TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY IN AN ANOREXIA NERVOSA PATIENT DURING EMERGENCE FROM GENERAL ANESTHESIA.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a disease in which the patient exhibits transient, reversible left ventricular dysfunction that is triggered by physical or emotional stress. Prolongation of QT interval, a risk factor for arrhythmia and sudden death, has been reported to be prevalent among patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and is also observed in those with severe anorexia nervosa. In this report, we describe the rare case of a 30-year-old female patient with anorexia nervosa who developed Torsades de Pointes associated with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy during emergence from general anesthesia for emergency exploratory laparotomy.

A case of chromomycosis treated by surgical therapy combined with preceded oral administration of terbinafine to reduce the size of the lesion.

Chromomycosis is a chronic fungal disease of the skin and subcutaneous tissues caused by a group of dematiaceous black fungi. Small lesions can be removed with excision, but other cases are difficult to treat. We report a case of chromomycosis caused by Fonsecaea pedrosoi (F.

Endoscopic evaluation of dynamic narrowing of the pharynx by the Bernouilli effect producing maneuver in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

Objective: To evaluate the dynamic narrowing of the retropalatal pharynx by the Bernouilli effect producing maneuver (BEPM) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) with computer-assisted analysis of nasopharyngoscopic images.

Methods: Endoscopic images of the retropalatal pharynx were obtained and their area was measured by NIH imaging. Because changes in distance between the CCD camera of the nasopharyngoscope and the site of pharyngeal narrowing decreased the measurement reliability, the area of the retropalatal pharynx was divided by the square of the uvula's lateral side length for normalization.

A case of superficial angiomyxoma.

We report a case of a 19-year-old man who showed a brownish, elastic-soft, multilocular, pedunculated, solid tumor (10 × 6 × 6 cm), with scale crust and erosion, on the medial side of the right thigh. The histopathology of a specimen removed completely revealed a tumor that was located between the middle layer of the dermis and the subcutaneous fatty tissue, was filled with a mucoid material, and was surrounded by a fibrous tissue. The tumor consisted of small thin-walled blood vessels and spindle-shaped or stellate tumor cells without cytological atypia in addition to the mucoid material.

Early embryonic development, including germ-disk stage, in the theridiid spider Achaearanea japonica (Bös. et Str.).

Early embryonic development, from the first cleavage to the germ-disk stage, in the theridiid spider Achaearanea japonica was examined by light and electron microscopy. The eggs are syncytial during the first four cleavages, and then invaginations of cell membranes fuse to generate the blastomeres at the sixteen-nucleus stage. The cleavage pattern is a modified type of total cleavage.