Publications by authors named "M Maehara"
Osteoarthritis of the knee (OAK), a progressive degenerative disease affecting quality of life, is characterized by cartilage degeneration, synovial inflammation, and osteophyte formation causing pain and disability. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an autologous blood product effective in reducing OAK-associated pain. PRP compositions depend on their purification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAllogeneic cell therapies are not fully effective in treating osteoarthritis of the knee (OAK). We recently reported that transplantation of autologous chondrocyte cell-sheets along with open-wedge high tibial osteotomy promoted hyaline cartilage repair in humans. Here we describe our regenerative therapy for OAK using polydactyly-derived allogeneic chondrocyte cell-sheets (PD sheets) and temperature-responsive culture inserts.
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- Radiotherapy accidents often arise from planning issues, excessive irradiation, or patient movement, mainly due to the inability to monitor radiation exposure directly during treatment.
- The article presents a new real-time radiation exposure dosimetry system utilizing synthetic ruby, which showed a strong correlation between monitor units and photon counts, with a high accuracy under various irradiation conditions.
- While some discrepancies were noted between the synthetic ruby and ion chamber dosimeters, the overall results suggest that the new dosimeter can effectively measure patient irradiation doses in real time, although further assessment is needed for the identified issues.
Background: During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, general strategies for preventing infectious diseases, such as social distancing and the use of protective equipment have resulted in communication barriers between pharmacists and patients in community pharmacies.
Methods: To resolve these communication challenges to medication counselling during the COVID-19 pandemic, during their waiting time at our community pharmacy, we administered two questionnaires to patients receiving at least one antipsychotic drug. The first questionnaire, Questionnaire (A), included questions about any problems with wearing a mask and face shield, forgetting to take medication and adverse effects of their medication.
A fracture of the distal radius with an associated injury to the ulnar nerve is rare. The management of the ulnar nerve lesion is unclear. We present a patient with a closed distal radius fracture related to an injury to the ulnar nerve associated with diminished sensation and a claw deformity.
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