Publications by authors named "Kazuaki Azuma"
Background: Hepatic pseudoaneurysm (HPA) is a rare complication that can occur after liver trauma and carries a high risk of rupture. HPA is usually asymptomatic until rupture, so performing routine surveillance of liver trauma patients is important. Most posttraumatic HPA occurs within the first week after injury, so surveillance imaging ~ 7 days postinjury is suggested.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The standard treatment for pT3N0 gastric cancer (GC) in Japanese guidelines is radical surgery without adjuvant chemotherapy. However, certain percentages of these patients develop recurrences; therefore, detecting the high-risk subgroup of recurrence may contribute to improve patient's outcome by adjuvant chemotherapy. In this study, we aimed to identify a predictive indicator of poor prognosis in pT3N0 GC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with prolonged inflammatory bowel disease have a greater risk of colorectal cancer, known as colitis-associated cancer. Here we describe an unusual case of colitis-associated cancer.
Case Presentation: The subject is a 41-year-old male who has not presented digestive symptoms and has an appreciable medical history.
Objective: Plasma concentrations of superantigens were measured in an intensive care unit (ICU) population and the relationship of superantigen positive rates with the presence of sepsis was investigated.
Methods: Plasma samples were collected at least twice a week from 78 patients whose primary diagnoses were abdominal disorders (n = 27), respiratory disorders (n = 11), trauma (n = 10), burns (n = 10), cardiovascular disorders (n = 4), neurological disorders (n = 2), and others (n = 14). Five different species of superantigens, i.