Publications by authors named "F Okada"
Aim: To evaluate predictive chest computed tomography (CT) findings associated with the development of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) in human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1) carriers.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective study examined 171 adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and 158 HTLV-1 carriers who were treated from November 2004 to April 2021. The radiological features of 888 chest CT scans in total were retrospectively assessed by two chest radiologists who were unaware of the underlying diagnoses and compared between the groups.
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- * The study analyzed data from 98 patients at Kyoto Katsura Hospital, discovering that age, cognitive function upon admission, and high residual urine levels were key factors influencing whether patients needed their catheters reinserted.
- * Results showed that nearly half of the patients could urinate independently by discharge, with overall improvements in motor and functional scores, but cognitive scores did not significantly change.
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- AMIGO2 is a protein that facilitates liver metastasis in tumor cells, and altering its expression impacts the cells’ ability to metastasize.
- The study aimed to find ways to reduce liver metastasis by lowering AMIGO2 levels, testing 285 compounds and identifying five that effectively inhibit tumor cell adhesion to the liver.
- Among these, the clinically available drug ruxolitinib was found to significantly reduce AMIGO2 expression and could effectively prevent liver metastasis in both mouse and human cancer cells.
Purpose: To determine whether decision trees are useful for predicting organisms that cause community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Materials And Methods: We developed a decision tree for predicting the organisms that cause CAP based on previously reported characteristic computed tomography findings. Sixteen readers (two student doctors, six residents, and eight radiologists) separately diagnosed 68 randomly selected cases of CAP using chest computed tomography.
Malassezia species are lipophilic yeasts recognized for causing skin manifestations, such as pityriasis versicolor. In addition, Malassezia can lead to invasive infection, mostly intravascular catheter-associated sepsis-related lipid-containing total parenteral nutrition in neonates and immunocompromised hosts. We experienced a case of invasive pulmonary Malassezia infection in a patient with refractory ulcerative colitis undergoing immunosuppressive treatment without lipid-containing total parenteral nutrition.
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