Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2023
This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of methods for evaluating the environmental and physical loads on workers in manufacturing plants, considering their locations. Participants were employees of DENSO CORPORATION's manufacturing facilities, and environmental sensors (for temperature and humidity) and BLE beacons were installed to cover the work area. Questionnaires were completed by the participants twice to assess their thermal comfort and fatigue in the work environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe case is of a 66-year-old woman who visited a general practitioner with a chief complaint of cough. She was referred to the Internal Medicine Department of our hospital because an abnormal shadow was found in her chest X-ray examination. A CT scan suspected her to have a metastatic lung tumor, and gastric cancer was diagnosed on primary site search.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 73-year-old man underwent abdominoperineal resection for a rectal cancer. He developed a hip pain 3 years and 6 months after the surgery. A CT scan revealed a local recurrence in the perineum and multiple lung metastases in the bilateral lung.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGan To Kagaku Ryoho
November 2015
A 76-year-old man presented with many bullous lesions and erythema over his whole body in August 2014. Blood examination showed an elevation of the anti-BP180 antibody (658 U/mL) and a biopsied specimen of the skin lesions showed subepidermal bulla. A diagnosis of bullous pemphigoid was made based on the clinical and histological findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 77-year-old man presented with poor appetite and dyspnea. A gastroendoscopy showed an advanced gastric cancer and a CT scan demonstrated diffuse interstitial infiltrative shadows in both lungs. Laboratory data showed high level of anti-SSA and anti-SSB antibodies, suggestive of interstitial pneumonia associated with Sjögren's syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report 4 cases of gastrointestinal perforation associated with systemic administration of bevacizumab. Case 1: A 51- year-old man with colorectal cancer (CRC) received mFOLFOX+bevacizumab (Bev). A small intestinal perforation occurred 7 days after Bev administration (Bev-a) and was successfully treated with omental packing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 63-year-old man who had a history of rectal cancer and was treated with low anterior resection in February 2006, presented with liver metastases in September 2007 and underwent right anterior sectionectomy of the liver. He developed a pelvic wall recurrence with buttock pain in September 2009. This was treated with conventional radiation therapy and Cyber- Knife.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInflammation and glycemic control are important prognosis-related factors for hemodialysis (HD) patients; moreover, inflammation affects insulin secretion. Here, we evaluated the anti-inflammatory effects of monotherapy with linagliptin-a dipeptidase-4 inhibitor-in HD patients with type 2 diabetes. We examined 21 diabetic HD patients who were not receiving oral diabetes drugs or insulin therapy and with poor glycemic control (glycated albumin [GA] level, >20%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHere, we report 2 cases of recurrent invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma of the lung after surgery, which showed marked responses to platinum-based regimens with pemetrexed(PEM)and bevacizumab(BEV). The first patient was diagnosed with stage I B(p-T2N0M0)invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma, and new nodules were detected on computed tomography (CT)after 24 months of adjuvant chemotherapy with uracil/tegafur(UFT). Therefore, the patient was administered carboplatin(CBDCA; AUC 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn 84-year-old woman being treated for miliary tuberculosis (TB) with rifampicin (RFP), isoniazid (INH), ethambutol (EB) and corticosteroids suffered from a persistent fever for five months. While tapering the dose of prednisolone, chest computed tomography (CT) revealed diffuse ground glass opacities (GGO) and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) showed an increase in lymphocytes. After the anti-TB drugs were discontinued and the dose of the corticosteroids was increased, the CT findings and fever improved considerably.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi
October 2012
Introduction: Orbital metastases of lung cancer are rare. However, because the number of patients diagnosed with lung cancer is increasing, the probability that a physician will see a patient with an orbital metastasis is also increasing. Unfortunately, the clinical course and response of these patients to cytotoxic chemotherapy are generally poor and keeping a patient's quality of vision is difficult.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo date, medical guidance for patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy has mainly been with regard to individual medicines. Only a few reports have been available dealing with information on side effects by a regimen unit. Therefore, we accumulated information on side effects and made a pamphlet for patients with malignant lymphoma undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation after Melphalan (L-PAM), Cyclophosphamide (Endoxan), VP-16 (etoposide) and Dexamethasone (LEED)therapy, for the purpose of explanation for patients on pharmacist's rounds.
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