The Influence of Drinking Based on Data from Health Check-up.

A survey of 21,493 patients who visited our Health Check-up Center during the 6-year period from 2005 to 2010 was conducted for the endpoints of drinking situation and various lifestyle-related diseases. Males accounted for 57.2% (mean age: 53.

Deriving the intrahepatic arteriovenous shunt rate from CT images and biochemical data instead of from arterial perfusion scintigraphy in hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy.

The purpose of the present study was to elucidate a method for predicting the intrahepatic arteriovenous shunt rate from computed tomography (CT) images and biochemical data, instead of from arterial perfusion scintigraphy, because adverse exacerbated systemic effects may be induced in cases where a high shunt rate exists. CT and arterial perfusion scintigraphy were performed in patients with liver metastases from gastric or colorectal cancer. Biochemical data and tumor marker levels of 33 enrolled patients were measured.

Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy using fluorouracil followed by systemic therapy using oxaliplatin plus fluorouracil and leucovorin for patients with unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer.

The purpose of this study was to assess retrospectively the sequential treatment of hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) chemotherapy followed by systemic therapy using oxaliplatin plus 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and leucovorin, namely, FOLFOX, for patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer. We reviewed 20 patients with unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer. Patients were initially treated with HAI chemotherapy until disease progression (5-fluorouracil, 1000 mg/m(2) intra-arterial infusion, weekly) and then with FOLFOX thereafter (FOLFOX4, n = 13; modified FOLFOX6, n = 7).

Side-hole catheter placement for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy in patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer: long-term treatment and survival benefit.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate retrospectively correlations between catheter placement methods and treatment outcomes of patients treated with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy for unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer.

Materials And Methods: This study involved 135 patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer who underwent intrahepatic chemotherapy using catheter-port systems. Complications, treatment discontinuation, hepatic progression, and survival of patients treated with each method were evaluated retrospectively using the Kaplan-Meier method.

Placement of a long tapered side-hole catheter in the hepatic artery: technical advantages, catheter stability, and arterial patency.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the technical advantages, safety, and efficacy of placing a catheter distally in the hepatic artery using a long tapered side-hole catheter with an implantable port for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy.

Subjects And Methods: Fifty patients with unresectable malignant liver tumors underwent radiologic implantation of catheter-port systems using the long tapered catheter placement method. A 2.

Development and evaluation of a teleradiology and videoconferencing system.

We developed a teleradiology system linking a general hospital on Sado Island to tertiary care hospitals in Niigata City. The island is 40 km from Niigata City on the mainland and has only one diagnostic radiologist (for 72,000 islanders). Fibre optic cables between Sado Island and Niigata City were used for transmission.

Using slow-infusion MR arteriography and an implantable port system to assess drug distribution at hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess perfusion patterns seen on slow-infusion MR arteriography using the hepatic arterial infusion system compared with those seen on CT arteriography.

Subjects And Methods: In 37 patients with liver metastases who had implantable port systems for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy, slow-infusion MR arteriography using an infusion rate of 10 mL/hr through an implantable port and CT arteriography using an injection rate of 0.7 mL/sec were performed.