Publications by authors named "Masashi Sakakibara"
Introduction: Whether aberrant arteries in pulmonary sequestration should be divided at the bifurcation or at the periphery remains a subject of debate (Kodama et al., 2016). Due to the risk of postoperative aneurysm formation followed by fetal bleeding (Rubin et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA neuroendocrine tumor within an anterior mediastinal mature teratoma: a case report.
J Cardiothorac Surg
December 2022
Background: Mature teratomas are benign germ cell tumors. On rare occasions, they have been associated with somatic malignancies and are termed rare germ cell tumors with a somatic-type malignancy (GCTSM). Mature teratomas commonly comprise adenocarcinomas; only seven previous cases of mature teratomas with neuroendocrine tumors have been reported to date.
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- * Initial treatment involved hospitalization and monitoring after he was found to have a pneumothorax from a chest X-ray.
- * An emergency operation was necessary after the patient experienced chest pain, respiratory distress, and shock, revealing a diaphragm injury caused by the rib fractures.
Background: The endothelium regulates vascular tonus by releasing nitric oxide (endothelium-derived nitric oxide, EDNO) and hyperpolarizing factor (endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor, EDHF). In vein grafts with poor runoff, lack of function of these factors causes severe intimal hyperplasia. This study evaluated how the functions of EDNO and EDHF are altered in artery grafts under poor runoff conditions.
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- - A 17-year-old male experienced right back pain and had a medical history of an emergency surgery for a left idiopathic hemopneumothorax.
- - A chest X-ray showed a collapsed right lung and suggested pleural adhesion, leading to a diagnosis of right spontaneous pneumothorax.
- - Surgical intervention was necessary due to identified pleural adhesion bands, as they pose a risk for hemothorax.
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- - This study investigates the relationship between intraluminal thrombus volume and the occurrence of type II endoleak and sac expansion following endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), highlighting a potential area for improved patient outcomes in those undergoing the procedure.
- - Analysis included 280 patients who underwent EVAR, revealing that significant factors influencing sac expansion included older age, intraluminal thrombus volume ratio, and IMA diameter, impacting nearly half of the patients studied.
- - Findings suggest that maintaining an intraluminal thrombus volume ratio above 51% may lead to better outcomes in terms of avoiding significant sac expansion, as indicated by statistical analyses during a 60-month follow-up period.
Rupture of the common bile duct because of blunt trauma is extremely rare. Preoperative diagnosis is very difficult because bile causes little peritoneal irritation. We present a case of a 19-year-old young woman with rupture of the common bile duct due to blunt trauma.
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