Publications by authors named "K Ogita"
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- * A case is presented where a patient with severe PDPH after a cesarean section experienced immediate pain relief using a sphenopalatine ganglion block (SPGB), a treatment not often performed by obstetricians.
- * The article suggests that SPGB may be a safe and effective alternative to the traditional epidural blood patch for managing PDPH, offering obstetricians a non-invasive treatment option for their patients.
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- - The study aimed to assess the awareness of sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among members of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and identify how the JSOG can better address SRHR issues.
- - Surveys conducted in 2019 and 2023 showed a significant increase in awareness of SRH and Sustainable Development Goals among JSOG members, with many respondents recognizing various SRHR issues that need attention.
- - The findings highlight a shift in priority issues, with women's rights to self-determination emerging as the most important concern in the second survey, along with calls for comprehensive sexuality education.
Objective: To determine the prophylactic effect of hydrocolloid dressings on hypertrophic scarring in post-cesarean section wounds.
Methods: Patients who underwent cesarean section (C/S) at the authors' hospital and provided informed consent to participate were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The intervention group commenced applying hydrocolloid dressings to the wound on postoperative day 7 or 8 and continued with weekly dressing changes for 6 months.
We have recently shown delayed increases in GABA receptor (GABAR) subunit protein levels in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG), but not in the pyramidal CA1 and CA3 regions, at 15-30 days after the systemic single administration of trimethyltin (TMT) in mice. An attempt was thus made to determine whether the delayed increases return to the control levels found in naive mice afterward. In the DG on hippocampal slices obtained at 90 days after the administration, however, marked increases were still seen in protein levels of both GABAR1 and GABAR2 subunits without significant changes in calbindin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels on immunoblotting analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) induced by noise has increased in recent years due to personal headphone use and noisy urban environments. The study shows a novel model of gradually progressive SNHL induced by repeated exposure to moderate noise (8-kHz octave band noise, 90-dB sound pressure level) for 1 hr exposure per day in BALB/cCr mice. The results showed that the repeated exposure led to gradually progressive SNHL, which was dependent on the number of exposures, and resulted in permanent hearing loss after 5 exposures.
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