A Pilot Study of Intervention With a Mobile Application Visualizing the Macronutrient Content for Type 2 Diabetes at a Japanese Center.

Background: Estimating the nutritional content of food is essential for self-management in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, but it is a difficult skill to learn. The aim of this study was to investigate how diabetes management was impacted by the ability of patients to search for items they ate from a database of 26,300 different foods, and to visualize nutritional intake using the Japanese mobile application (app) "Calomeal."

Methods: This was a single-arm, single-center, pilot study.

Urinary tract reconstruction using uretero-ureteral end-to-side anastomosis in kidney transplant recipients.

Background: In kidney transplant recipients, the most widely used method for the reconstruction of the urinary pathway is ureteroneocystostomy, which may be difficult in cases with disused atrophic bladder. In this study, we evaluated kidney transplant recipients who underwent uretero-ureteral end-to-side anastomosis (UUA) in urinary reconstruction due to disused atrophic bladder.

Methods: To clarify the effectiveness of this method, we retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of kidney transplant recipients in our hospital.