Publications by authors named "Kunio Kusajima"
A 76-year-old woman with cervical cancer was treated with nedaplatin, a platinum-based drug. After the initiation of the treatment, she became aware of numbness, dizziness, and loss of appetite. Exploration of the causes revealed no clues, but blood tests revealed hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Symptomatic anterior mediastinal mass in pregnancy is rare, and cesarean section for such patients poses a risk of cardiopulmonary collapse.
Case Presentation: A 30-year-old woman at 40 weeks' gestation complained of breathlessness and cough, and she was not able to lie supine because of respiratory distress. Computed tomography scan revealed a large anterior-superior mediastinal mass severely compressing the trachea, bilateral main bronchus, and superior vena cava.
Objectives: Concomitant tricuspid valve surgery with mitral valve surgery is recommended for patients with severe functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR). However, the treatment for 2+ TR (mild TR) remains controversial. Here, we evaluated the long-term results of untreated 2+ TR in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery.
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- Cardiac fibromas are rare, benign tumors primarily found in children, with good long-term survival rates post-surgery and minimal recurrence.
- A 34-year-old woman experienced ventricular tachycardia 21 years after having a cardiac fibroma removed, which was later diagnosed as a recurrent giant fibroma.
- After complete surgical resection of the recurrent fibroma, she has remained symptom-free and shows no signs of further issues or recurrence two years later.
Objective: Surgical experiences of the reoperative double ventricular outflow tract reconstruction long after the successful repair of conotruncal anomalies were reviewed.
Methods: Ten adult patients with conotruncal anomalies (6 females, 22.9 ± 5.
A 5-year-old girl with right atrial isomerism, complete atrioventricular septal defect, hypoplastic left ventricle, double outlet right ventricle, and mixed-type total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with totally occluded left pulmonary veins presented at our center for fenestrated total cavo-pulmonary connection with an extra cardiac conduit at the age of 3 years. Eleven months after the Fontan completion, she developed protein-losing enteropathy (PLE). Spontaneously closed fenestration was thought to be the cause of the PLE, and she underwent revision of fenestration at the age of 5 years.
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