Usefulness of a long hood for the detection of bleeding sites in colonic diverticular hemorrhage: A randomized controlled trial.

Background And Aim: The use of a hood at the tip of a colonoscope enables aspiration, inversion of the diverticulum, and observation of the inside of the diverticulum. In most previous studies, a short hood was used; however, observation of the diverticulum is often inadequate. Long food is promising by previous research, but it was a retrospective study using propensity matching and has some limitations.

Correlation during the extent of surgical resection, oral function and quality of life after tongue cancer surgery: Single-institution study.

Introduction: The extent of surgical resection for tongue tumors is determined by tumor size, potentially affecting oral function and quality of life (QoL). However, the relationship between oral dysfunction and QoL decline due to glossectomy extent remains unexplored. Therefore, these correlations and their predictive value for postoperative QoL decline were elucidated.

Mechanism of muscle atrophy in a normal-weight rat model of type 2 diabetes established by using a soft-pellet diet.

Dietary factors such as food texture affect feeding behavior and energy metabolism, potentially causing obesity and type 2 diabetes. We previously found that rats fed soft pellets (SPs) were neither hyperphagic nor overweight but demonstrated glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and hyperplasia of pancreatic β-cells. In the present study, we investigated the mechanism of muscle atrophy in rats that had been fed SPs on a 3-h time-restricted feeding schedule for 24 weeks.

Percutaneous Transhepatic Obliteration for Treating Stomal Variceal Bleeding Using a Microballoon Catheter with Systemic Drainage Vein Compression.

We report a case of successful treatment of stomal variceal bleeding with percutaneous transhepatic obliteration using a microballoon catheter concomitantly with drainage vein compression. A 72-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis was admitted to our hospital due to repeated hemorrhage of stomal varices. Percutaneous transhepatic obliteration was then selected for treatment because computed tomography revealed the stomal varices being fed by only two branches of the superior and inferior mesenteric veins.

Combination therapy of Mohs paste and chemotherapy improved metastatic oral cancer to the precordium skin and bilateral axillary lymph nodes: A case report.

Although Mohs paste can control bleeding, exudates, and odors from tumors, there have been no reports of the combination of Mohs paste with other treatments, such as chemotherapy, in oral cancer. Here, we report the combination of Mohs paste and chemotherapy for a case of metastatic oral cancer to the precordium skin and bilateral axillary lymph nodes. The tumors almost completely disappeared after the treatment.

Hypothetical novel simulations to explain the evolutionary survival of the hypo-reproductive extreme tail in the complex human diversity.

Hierarchical structures which lie hidden between human complex conditions and reproductivity cannot be simple, and trends of each population component does not necessarily pertain to evolutionary theories. As an illustration, the fitness of individuals with heritable extreme conditions can be low across continuing generations in observational data. Autism and schizophrenia are characterized by such evolutionary paradox of survival and hypo-reproductivity in the complex human diversity.

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) caused by chemotherapy containing S-1 against diffuse type gastric cancer.

A 23-year-old woman who complained of abdominal distension and anorexia was referred to our hospital. Computed tomography showed ascites, a huge hepatic tumor and ovarian tumor. Gastroscopy revealed type 4 gastric cancer and biopsy examination showed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with signet ring cell carcinoma.

A Case of Rare Cutaneous Metastasis from Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

A 71-year-old woman presented to a nearby hospital with an occipital scalp ulcer with exudate. Thoracoabdominal enhanced computed tomography (CT) was performed due to suspected cancer. The imaging results showed tumors in the pancreatic tail and at multiple sites in the lung, whereupon she was referred to our hospital for further investigation.

Working Memory-Related Prefrontal Hemodynamic Responses in University Students: A Correlation Study of Subjective Well-Being and Lifestyle Habits.

Identification of social risk factors and the promotion of stress coping mechanisms and mental resilience are topics of interest in the field of mental health. The relationships between risk- or tolerability-associated factors and task-related hemodynamic responses in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in adolescents may have important implications for mental health challenges. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between task-related PFC hemodynamic activities and subjective well-being or lifestyle habits using wearable near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).

An autopsy case of primary extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma (extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma) of the bile duct.

We reported the case of a 50-year-old man diagnosed with extrinsic NK/T-cell lymphoma. He was initially diagnosed with locally advanced unresected pancreatic duct carcinoma and was treated with combination chemotherapy using gemcitabine and nabpaclitaxel. One month after treatment, he developed bleeding.

The Influence of Drinking Based on Data from Health Check-up.

A survey of 21,493 patients who visited our Health Check-up Center during the 6-year period from 2005 to 2010 was conducted for the endpoints of drinking situation and various lifestyle-related diseases. Males accounted for 57.2% (mean age: 53.

Balloon-occluded arterial stump pressure before balloon-occluded transarterial chemoembolization.

Objective: To evaluate balloon-occluded arterial stump pressure (BOASP), which is responsible for effective balloon-occluded transarterial chemoembolization (B-TACE), at each hepatic arterial level before B-TACE using a 1.8-French tip microballoon catheter for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Material And Methods: The BOASP at various embolization portions was retrospectively investigated.

[The outcome of patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis].

We investigated the outcome of the patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis who had visited our hospital from 2007 to 2013. We compared them with the patients with type C liver cirrhosis, matched in gender and in age. The patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis who dropped out accounted for 19.

Long-term survival after resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with para-aortic lymph node metastasis: case report.

Pancreatic cancer patients with para-aortic lymph node metastasis have a poor prognosis and patients living longer than 3 years are rare. We had a patient with pancreatic cancer who survived for more than 10 years after removal of the para-aortic lymph node metastasis. A 57-year-old woman was diagnosed with pancreatic head cancer and underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy with subtotal gastric resection following Whipple reconstruction in 2000.

Vaginal bleeding in a patient with type C liver cirrhosis without a past history of laparotomy: successful treatment with partial splenic artery embolization.

A 47-year-old female patient with type C liver cirrhosis underwent endoscopic injection sclerotherapy for esophageal varices 13 years ago. The patient had no past history of hysterectomy or any other gynecological disorders. She was admitted to our hospital because of persistent vaginal bleeding and exacerbation of anemia.

Patient with oculo-facio-cardio-dental syndrome treated with surgical orthodontics.

Oculo-facio-cardio-dental (OFCD) syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by ocular, facial, cardiac, and dental disorders. Only about 20 cases have been reported to date. The most prominent of the various features of this syndrome is canine radiculomegaly.

Intrahepatic cholangiocellular carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma developed after a 6-year sustained virological response to interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis C.

A 67-year-old male patient presenting with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) achieved a sustained virological response (SVR) following 6 months of treatment with 6 million units of beta-interferon (IFN). The SVR state continued for 6 years. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) developed in liver segments 4 and 5, and was treated with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, followed by radiofrequency ablation of the tumors.