Background: It is predicted that the number of older persons with dementia (PwD) living alone in Japan will increase in the future. Consequently, it is also expected that the number of missing older PwD living alone will rise. However, there is little research on missing PwD who live alone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe encountered a case of situs inversus totalis in conjunction with an anomalous artery connecting the common hepatic artery and a jejunal branch of the superior mesenteric artery during anatomical dissection of a cadaver. The heart was located in the center of the thorax, with the apex located anterioinferiorly to the right of the midline and the base located posterosuperiorly to the left of the midline. The aortic arch coursed from right anterior to right posterior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdvancements in immunotherapy, the phenomenon of hyperprogression in cancer patients, have garnered increasing attention. We herein report a case of acute adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) that developed after administration of the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab in a patient with lung cancer. Although the patient was a carrier of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), this was unknown prior to durvalumab treatment.
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