Successful treatment of proton pump inhibitor induced sporadic fundic gland polyps with an argon plasma coagulator in a patient with polycythaemia vera.

Introduction: Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use is associated with the development of fundic gland polyps (FGPs); discontinuing PPIs is associated with regression of FGPs. Here, we report a rare case of non-respondent FGPs after discontinuation of PPI that were successfully treated using an argon plasma coagulator (APC).

Presentation Of Case: We present the case of a 68-year-old woman with a history of polycytheamia vera.

Laparoscopic-Assisted Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Combined with CT-GC.

Purpose: Despite the widespread use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes, their placement may be associated with a variety of complications, including gastrocolic fistula.

Materials And Methods: In total, seven high-risk individuals diagnosed using computed tomography (CT)-gastrocolonography (GC) underwent laparoscopic-assisted PEG (LAPEG) placement. Study endpoints included the success of LAPEG under local anesthetic and intravenous sedation, inability to thread the PEG tube, the eventual tube location, the number of tube adjustments needed, adverse events, the operating time, and PEG tube-related infection.

Totally implantable venous access port via the femoral vein in a femoral port position with CT-venography.

Background And Purpose: We aimed to determine the success rate and any complications using a percutaneous approach to the femoral vein (FV) for placement of a totally implantable access port (TIVAP), with a preoperative assessment of the femoral and iliac veins using computed tomography-venography (CT-V).

Methods: A prospective study of 72 patients was conducted where placement of a TIVAP was attempted via the right FV, with the port placed in the anterior thigh, when subclavian vein or jugular vein access was contraindicated. Preoperative assessment of the femoral venous plexus was performed with CT-V in 72 patients.

Pregabalin- and azithromycin-induced rhabdomyolysis with purpura: An unrecognized interaction: A case report.

Introduction: Rhabdomyolysis associated with the use of pregabalin or azithromycin has been demonstrated to be a rare but potentially life-threatening adverse event. Here, we report an extremely rare case of rhabdomyolysis with purpura in a patient who had used pregabalin and azithromycin.

Presentation Of Case: We present the case of a 75-year-old woman with a history of fibromyalgia who was admitted with mild limb weakness and lower abdominal purpura.

Nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia: fulminant pancolitis.

NOMI is mesenteric hypoperfusion with reactive vascular spasms. Changes in the color of the mucosa may reflect the severity of the ischemia of the colon and the severity of prognosis. Even with surgery, the mortality rate is 75%.

Computed tomography-gastro-colonography for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy using a helical computed tomography.

Background: Despite the widespread use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes, their placement may be associated with a variety of complications, including gastrocolic fistula.

Methods: In total, 48 individuals underwent computed tomography-gastro-colonography (CT-GC)-guided PEG placement. Study end points included success of CT-GC, inability to thread the PEG tube, the eventual tube location, tube adjustments needed, adverse events, operating time, and PEG tube-related infection.

Pravastatin-induced rhabdomyolysis and purpura fulminans in a patient with chronic renal failure.

Introduction: Rhabdomyolysis associated with the use of pravastatin has been demonstrated to be a rare but potentially life-threatening adverse effect of statins. Here, we report a rare case of rhabdomyolysis and purpura fulminans in a patient who had used pravastatin and developed chronic renal failure (CRF) necessitating the initiation of dialysis.

Presentation Of Case: We present the case of an 86-year-old man with chronic kidney disease (CKD) treated with dialysis who was admitted with back pain.

Primary colon cancer with a high serum PIVKA-II level.

Introduction: Protein induced by vitamin K absence/antagonist-II (PIVKA-II) is an abnormal protein, and several reports have demonstrated the efficacy of PIVKA-II in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We report an extremely rare case of adenocarcinoma of the colon with a high serum PIVKA-II level.

Presentation Of Case: A 95-year-old woman presented with right lower quadrant pain and appetite loss.

Central venous access via external jugular vein with CT-venography using a multidetector helical 16-section CT.

Objective: To determine the success rate and complications of using the external jugular vein (EJV) for central venous access with a preoperative estimate of the detailed anatomical orientation of the cervical venous plexus using computed tomography venography (CT-V).

Design: Prospective, observational human study.

Setting: Surgical intensive care unit.

Computed tomography (CT) venography using a multidetector CT prior to the percutaneous external jugular vein approach for an implantable venous-access port.

Background And Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine the success rate and complications of using the percutaneous approach of the external jugular vein (EJV) for placement of a totally implantable venous-access port (TIVAP) with a preoperative estimate of the detailed anatomical orientation of the cervical venous plexus using computed tomography venography (CT-V).

Methods: A prospective cohort study of 45 patients in whom placement of a TIVAP was attempted via the right EJV was conducted. The preoperative anatomical estimation of the cervical venous plexus was performed with CT-V using a Multidetector Helical 16-section CT.

Study of prolonged administration of lanthanum carbonate in dialysis patients.

Data of 36 months were accumulated regarding the effects of lanthanum carbonate (LA) on serum phosphate concentrations in dialysis patients. Fifty-three patients (average age and dialysis history 58.4 years and 9.

Primary adenocarcinoma of the stomach in von Recklinghausen's disease with high serum levels of multiple tumor markers: a case report.

Introduction: Gastric tumors in patients affected by neurofibromatosis type 1 are usually carcinoids or stromal tumors, and rarely adenocarcinomas.

Case Presentation: We report a case of an adenocarcinoma of the stomach in a 53-year-old Japanese man with neurofibromatosis type 1. An abdominal computed tomography scan and ultrasonography showed tumors in his liver.

Rhabdomyolysis associated with fenofibrate monotherapy in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Rhabdomyolysis associated with fenofibrate monotherapy is extremely rare. Here, we report a rare case of rhabdomyolysis of the psoas muscle in an 82-year-old man with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). He was prescribed fenofibrate because of a hypertriglyceridemia.

Clinical study of therapeutic angiogenesis by autologous peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation in 92 patients with critically ischemic limbs.

Patients with critically ischemic limbs due to maintenance hemodialysis and diabetes are increasing in number markedly in Japan. The difficulty of treating critically ischemic limbs is well recognized. Despite active medication and surgical therapy, many critically ischemic limbs are amputated.

Artificial liver support at present and in the future.

Liver failure is a fatal disease. Liver transplantation is the only established treatment for liver failure; however, donor shortages remain problematic. In the United States and Europe, artificial livers as a bridge to liver transplantation are being considered.

Hepatocytes derived from peripheral blood stem cells of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor treated F344 rats in analbuminemic rat livers.

Background: hematopoietic stem cells (SCs) mobilized from the bone marrow (BM) into peripheral blood (PB) are reported to have ability to differentiate into various cell types. We investigated whether PB-SCs mobilized by treatment with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) in normal rats can raise albumin-producing hepatocytes after transplantation within the liver of analbuminemic rats.

Materials And Methods: Fischer 344 rats (F344) were used as donors, and F344 congenic Nagase's analbuminemic rats (F344alb) as recipients.

Colonization of albumin-producing hepatocytes derived from transplanted F344 rat bone marrow cells in the liver of congenic Nagase's analbuminemic rats.

Background/aims: We investigated whether bone marrow cells (BMCs) of normal rats can be transformed in albumin-producing hepatocytes in analbuminemic rat livers.

Methods: BMCs (2 x 10(7)) from F344 rats (F344) were infused via the portal vein into the livers of congenic Nagase's analbuminemic rats (F344alb) immediately after 70% hepatectomy (PH). Alternatively, F344alb were hematopoietically reconstituted with F344 BMCs by whole body irradiation and BMC transplantation before PH.

UW solution: a promising tool for cryopreservation of primarily isolated rat hepatocytes.

Cryopreserved hepatocytes are a ready source of metabolic and synthetic functions for hepatocyte transplantation and bioartificial livers. In this study, we evaluated a cytoprotective effect of University of Wisconsin (UW) solution during cryopreservation of rat hepatocytes. We also investigated the feasibility of lentivirus-based gene transfer into thawed hepatocytes after cryopreservation.