Predictors of Hypertension in Survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake, 2011: A Cross-sectional Study.

Introduction: Many survivors of a major disaster die shortly after the event. Hypertension (HT) is one of the most important risk factors for these disaster-related diseases. An urgent need exists to establish methods to detect disaster survivors with HT and start medication immediately, as those with no injuries or symptoms may not be examined and medical teams cannot measure all survivors' blood pressure (BP) because they often do not have sufficient time.

Overheated and melted intracranial pressure transducer as cause of thermal brain injury during magnetic resonance imaging: case report.

Magnetic resonance imaging is used with increasing frequency to provide accurate clinical information in cases of acute brain injury, and it is important to ensure that intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring devices are both safe and accurate inside the MRI suite. A rare case of thermal brain injury during MRI associated with an overheated ICP transducer is reported. This 20-year-old man had sustained a severe contusion of the right temporal and parietal lobes during a motor vehicle accident.