Publications by authors named "M Isshiki"

Background: The safety profile of high doses of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) therapy for cancer risk in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) remains uncertain. We evaluated the risk of cancer development in patients with IMIDs exposed to standard and high doses of TNFi compared with those never exposed to TNFi.

Methods: A cohort study was conducted using the Japanese claims database encompassing over 4.

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The detection of founder pathogenic variants, those observed in high frequency only in a group of individuals with increased inter-relatedness, can help improve delivery of health care for that community. We identified 16 groups with shared ancestry, based on genomic segments that are shared through identity by descent (IBD), in New York City using the genomic data of 25,366 residents from the All Of Us Research Program and the Mount Sinai Bio biobank. From these groups we defined 8 as founder populations, mostly communities currently under-represented in medical genomics research, such as Puerto Rican, Garifuna and Filipino/Pacific Islanders.

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We report a measurement of exclusive J/ψ and ψ(2s) photoproduction in Au+Au ultraperipheral collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV using the STAR detector. For the first time, (i) the ψ(2s) photoproduction in midrapidity at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider has been experimentally measured; (ii) nuclear suppression factors are measured for both the coherent and incoherent J/ψ production. At average photon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 25.

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  • A 39-year-old pregnant woman developed symptoms of gestational diabetes insipidus (DI) after 31 weeks, characterized by excessive thirst and urination, leading to the suspicion of DI based on lab results.
  • Her condition worsened, resulting in acute kidney failure and an emergency cesarean section at 34 weeks, revealing a significantly enlarged placenta.
  • Post-delivery, she received a treatment that resolved her symptoms, and findings indicated that the excessive vasopressinase from the enlarged placenta, along with insufficient vasopressin from the pituitary, contributed to her DI symptoms.
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Pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma (PPGL) originating from chromaffin cells can produce diverse hormones in addition to catecholamines, including adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). In pheochromocytoma, high levels of ACTH might not result in pigmentation as typically observed in Addison's disease, and patients might not exhibit the symptoms of Cushing's syndrome, despite ACTH-dependent hypercortisolism. A 63-year-old male patient with hypertension was admitted to our facility, and computed tomography (CT) revealed a large right adrenal tumor.

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