Publications by authors named "Ayako Miwa"
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- The study investigates why older patients with schizophrenia might be prone to developing dementia, despite previous findings suggesting their Alzheimer's disease risk is similar to those without schizophrenia.
- It involved an examination of 32 brains from older schizophrenia patients to analyze dementia-related neuropathologies and compare clinicopathological differences between those with and without dementia.
- The results revealed two subgroups of dementia in these patients: those with known neurodegenerative diseases and those without identifiable pathology, indicating a need for more thorough research on this issue.
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- The study explores the relationship between long-term schizophrenia and dementia symptoms, noting that while schizophrenia patients are at a higher risk for dementia, the prevalence of Alzheimer's appears similar to that of non-afflicted individuals.
- Researchers conducted a neuropathological assessment on three schizophrenia cases that exhibited cognitive decline after prolonged illness, using various staining techniques to evaluate brain tissues.
- Results indicated no significant pathological findings in the patients, suggesting that cognitive decline may stem from a combination of preclinical neurodegeneration and inherent vulnerabilities linked to schizophrenia, rather than clear neurodegenerative diseases.
In Japan, the governmental recommnendation of HPV vaccine has been suspended since June 2013, due to media reports of alleged adverse vaccination events. Although evidence of effectiveness and safety of the HPV vaccine has been universally demonstrated, and the medical and academic organizations across Japan have requested the resumption of the government's recommendation, the Japanese government has not changed their official stance towards the HPV vaccine. Under the current suspension of the national government's recommendation, one local government Isumi City started sending a leaflet containing information of cervical cancer and HPV vaccine, but not recommendation for the vaccine, to the tagted girls born in the fiscal year (FY) 2003.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA supernumerary ovary is an exceedingly rare disorder, in which the structure containing ovarian tissue is located at some distance from the normally placed ovary. 16 cases of endometriosis or tumors originating in a supernumerary ovary have been published in the English literature, but no case of coexisting endometriosis and a tumor has been published. We present the case of a 40-year-old female with cystic endometrioma with coexisting fibroma originating in a supernumerary ovary in the rectovaginal pouch.
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