Renoprotective effects of docosahexaenoic acid in cats with early chronic kidney disease due to polycystic kidney disease: a pilot study.

Objectives: Lipids containing n-3 fatty acids have been reported to have protective effects on renal function, with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) expected to be particularly effective. However, no reports have demonstrated the renoprotective effects of DHA-enriched lipids in cats with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Therefore, the aim of this pilot study was to examine the renoprotective effects of DHA-enriched fish oil in cats.

Intrinsic Enhancement of Dielectric Permittivity in (Nb + In) co-doped TiO single crystals.

The development of dielectric materials with colossal permittivity is important for the miniaturization of electronic devices and fabrication of high-density energy-storage devices. The electron-pinned defect-dipoles has been recently proposed to boost the permittivity of (Nb + In) co-doped TiO to 10. However, the follow-up studies suggest an extrinsic contribution to the colossal permittivity from thermally excited carriers.

[Studyon Renal Cell Carcinoma Detected by Abdominal Ultrasonography during Routine Health Check-Up].

We performed a study on renal cell carcinoma (RCC) detected by abdominal ultrasonography during routine health check-up at Sapporo Teishin Hospital. The study included a total of 13,127 ultrasonographic examinations performed on 4,339 patients who visited our hospital for routine health check-ups during a 21- year period from April 1995 to March 2016. RCC was suspected from ultrasonographic findings and later histopathologically diagnosed in 11 patients in this group (detection rate 0.

IgA vasculitis complicated by cytomegalovirus enteritis: a case report.

A 61-year-old man was admitted to our department with purpura and hemorrhagic bullae on his lower limbs, dull pain affecting the entire abdomen, and hematochezia. Histopathological examination and immunostaining revealed leukocytoclastic vasculitis of the small blood vessels of the dermis and IgA deposition; multiple ulcers were observed in the ileum during lower gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, so we made a diagnosis of IgA vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein). Treatment with oral prednisolone (PSL) at a dose of 80 mg/day (1 mg/kg/day) for one week resolved the symptoms almost completely.