Publications by authors named "N Kurimoto"
Background: Seizure threshold increases with age and the frequency of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Therefore, therapeutic seizures can be difficult to induce, even at maximum stimulus charge with available ECT devices. Such cases are known as difficult-to-induce-seizures electroconvulsive therapy cases (DECs).
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- Older patients (over 75) with severe respiratory failure have a high mortality rate and struggle with daily activities, notably those who are frail.
- A study at Shimane University Hospital analyzed the outcomes of 32 patients who were intubated and ventilated, comparing frail individuals to self-sufficient ones, finding that 50% of frail patients died compared to 33% of self-sufficient patients.
- The results highlight the poor prognosis for frail patients, underscoring the need for careful evaluation before initiating intensive care treatments like intubation and ventilation.
Background: Research on early psychosis has begun to identify psychiatric characteristics of the prodromal period of schizophrenia; however, subclinical characteristics of children in non-psychiatric fields have not been fully investigated. In our previous study, we developed the Child Psychosis-risk Screening System (CPSS).
Objective: In the present cross-sectional study, we attempted to identify the risk of developing psychosis in pediatric ( = 216) and psychiatric outpatients ( = 120), aged 6- 18 years, with the CPSS.
A 59-year-old man presented with esophageal achalasia complicated by lipoid pneumonia. Dysphagia and diffuse ground-glass shadows on computed tomography led to the diagnosis of esophageal achalasia. An analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) revealed yellow BAL fluid, with two distinct layers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndocytoscopy enables real-time observation of lesions at ultra-magnification. In the gastrointestinal and respiratory fields, endocytoscopic images are similar to hematoxylin-eosin-stained images. This study aimed to compare the nuclear features of pulmonary lesions in endocytoscopic and hematoxylin-eosin-stained images.
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