Improvement of reduced electroretinographic responses in thymoma-associated retinopathy: a case report and literature review.

Purpose: To report a patient with thymoma-associated retinopathy presenting as having a good visual prognosis.

Methods: Case report and literature review.

Case Report: A 42-year-old female patient was referred to our hospital for complaints of sudden visual-field defects bilaterally.

Normal tension glaucoma-like degeneration of the visual system in aged marmosets.

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a non-human primate that provides valuable models for neuroscience and aging research due to its anatomical similarities to humans and relatively short lifespan. This study was carried out to examine whether aged marmosets develop glaucoma, as seen in humans. We found that 11% of the aged marmosets presented with glaucoma-like characteristics; this incident rate is very similar to that in humans.

Better documentation in electronic medical records would lead to an increased use of lower extremity venous ultrasound in the inpatient setting: a retrospective study.

Aim: We hypothesized that the quality of the assessment of abnormal laboratory data in the emergency department (ED) could affect the hospital-attending physicians' decision-making after a patient's hospitalization. To test this hypothesis, we investigated how patients with a positive D-dimer result were reported by ED physicians in electronic medical records, and measured whether lower extremity venous ultrasonography examination was undertaken during hospitalization by the hospital-attending physicians.

Methods: In an urban tertiary acute care general hospital in Japan, between January 2012 and December 2013, we included patients hospitalized after a positive D-dimer measurement (≥1.