The Prognostic Nutritional Index before durvalumab after chemoradiation predict the overall survival in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Background: Adjuvant durvalumab after chemoradiation has become the standard of care for patients with stage III NSCLC, according to the PACIFIC trial. Whether biomarkers before durvalumab for patients with stage III NSCLC showed predictive and prognostic effects remains unknown.

Methods: This is a retrospective study in the Fujieda Municipal General Hospital between October 2018 and March 2022.

An autopsy case of disseminated Cunninghamella bertholletiae infection in an immunocompetent patient: a case report.

Background: Recently, deaths due to mucormycosis in immunocompromised hosts have increased; however, the clinical and pathological features of mucormycosis are not fully understood, especially in view of the associated high mortality and rare incidence in immunocompetent patients.

Case Presentation: We have described a rare autopsy case of a 67-year-old Japanese man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who contracted mucormycosis. He had not been on any immunosuppressants, and his immune functions were intact.

A successful case of transarterial chemoembolization for hyperprogressive disease induced by immunotherapy in a patient with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

A fraction of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) shows unexpected rapid tumor growth, called hyperprogressive disease (HPD) after the initiation of atezolizumab and bevacizumab (ATZ + BEV). However, little information is available concerning salvage therapy after HPD and the possibility of resuming ATZ + BEV. A 60-year-old woman with unresectable HCCs was treated with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) and followed by lenvatinib, which showed an unsatisfactory result.

Effects of Bilateral Medial Rectus Resection on Motor Outcomes in Infantile Exotropia.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of bilateral medial rectus resection (BMRres) on motor outcomes in infantile exotropia.

Methods: We evaluated 19 cases of infantile exotropia surgery. The mean age at surgical alignment was 4.

Utility of FibroScan-based scoring systems to narrow the risk group of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with comorbidities.

Background: Vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE) is proposed as a second step of examination to assess liver fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) after triaging by the fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index. Recently, VCTE-based scoring systems, including FibroScan-AST (FAST), Agile 3+, and Agile 4, emerged to determine the status of NAFLD. However, the significance of these scoring systems remains unknown in narrowing the high-risk group of NAFLD patients with comorbidities, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and esophagogastric varices (EGV).