Publications by authors named "K Takasuna"
Recurrence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax after surgical treatment was often caused by overlooking bullae in surgical treatments, bullae regrowth, or bullae neogenesis. Herein, we present a very rare type of recurrence after surgical treatment, which was caused by lung laceration next to the adhesion created after the surgery. The patient was a 22-year-old volleyball player, and we presumed that sudden chest wall compression that occurred during volleyball displaced the lung next to the adhesion inwardly and caused the lung laceration.
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- A 57-year-old man came to the hospital after abnormal findings on a chest X-ray, which led to further imaging revealing solid nodules in his lung.
- Surgery (lobectomy) was done to remove the lung nodule, which was identified as seminoma, a type of testicular cancer.
- A PET-CT scan indicated high metabolic activity in the lung nodules and slight activity in the left testicle, but no tumor was found on ultrasound, leading to a rare diagnosis of testicular seminoma with single lung metastasis.
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- The study investigated how lung resection affects left ventricular stroke volume (LVSV) in patients, focusing on the perioperative changes.
- In a cohort of 61 patients monitored using the Flo Trac system, LVSV decreased in 62.2% of cases following lung surgery.
- Specific surgical procedures, such as taping and division of pulmonary veins, were identified as key factors contributing to this decrease in LVSV.
The superior aortic recess is one of the superior portions of the transverse sinus which is located around the ascending aorta. The fluid collection of the superior aortic recess is sometimes revealed on chest computed tomography, and it becomes more difficult to differentiate from a cystic tumor or lymphadenopathy when the amount of collected fluid is large or the fluid is extended into another area. We report two cases of fluid collection in the superior aortic recess which was misdiagnosed as a cystic mediastinal tumor that underwent surgical resection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe one-size-fits-all approach has been the mainstream in medicine, and the well-defined standards support the development of safe and effective therapies for many years. Advancing technologies, however, enabled precision medicine to treat a targeted patient population (e.g.
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