Publications by authors named "Daijiro Suzuki"
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- - A 68-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with acute cholangitis, and imaging tests showed issues like dilated common bile duct and a tumor in the gallbladder.
- - The patient was diagnosed with pancreaticobiliary maljunction causing biliary dilation and gallbladder cancer, leading to surgery for liver and bile duct reconstruction.
- - Pathological analysis revealed that the gallbladder tumor contained sarcoma, and the thickened wall had adenocarcinoma, resulting in a diagnosis of gallbladder carcinosarcoma.
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- - The study investigates the use of the Tp-e/QT ratio from electrocardiograms to predict coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) in children with Kawasaki disease (KD), a serious condition affecting heart arteries.
- - Results show a positive correlation between the Tp-e/QT ratio and the Gunma score, a known predictor of KD severity, with higher Tp-e/QT values in patients developing CAA.
- - Both the Gunma score and Tp-e/QT were found to be effective predictors for CAA, with the Tp-e/QT demonstrating better predictive capability based on receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was reported as a severe complication of coronavirus disease 2019; an infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and was suggested to be associated with Kawasaki disease (KD) in terms of severe systemic inflammation and mucocutaneous symptoms. Because severe gastrointestinal symptoms and systemic shock are more frequently observed with MIS-C, patients with mild MIS-C might have been diagnosed with KD. In this study, titers of IgG antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 S (S-IgG) and N proteins (N-IgG) were measured in 99 serum samples collected from patients with KD treated between January 2020 and December 2021 to evaluate the relationship between KD and SARS-CoV-2 infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Case of Aseptic Meningitis Without Skin Rash Caused by Oka Varicella Vaccine.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
January 2022
Here, we present a previously healthy adolescent with aseptic meningitis without skin rash caused by varicella vaccine derived from the Oka/Biken strain; the patient received a single dose of varicella vaccine at 1 year of age. Pediatricians should be aware of the potential for reactivation of varicella vaccine derived from the Oka/Biken strain, which can cause aseptic meningitis in vaccinated children even in the absence of a skin rash.
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