Publications by authors named "N Mataki"
Introduction: Aspiration pneumonia is becoming a common syndrome in the elderly in aging societies such as Japan. Although a number of tools have been validated for prediction of mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, none have been established for aspiration pneumonia. The purpose of this study was to access the correlations of the A-DROP, CURB-65 and SMART-COP scores at the emergency visit with the 30-day mortality risk in patients with aspiration pneumonia.
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- Essential oils, extracted from plants, are popularly used in aromatherapy but can cause skin allergies and irritation.
- A case study involves a Japanese woman who developed symptoms like cough, dyspnea, and fever after using essential oils for two weeks.
- She was diagnosed with acute eosinophilic pneumonia due to inhaling the oil, and her condition improved after receiving steroid treatment, highlighting a rare but serious risk of aromatherapy.
Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown origin characterised by the presence of non-caseating granulomatous lesions. Extrapulmonary sarcoidosis with bone marrow involvement is rare and even more so without pulmonary involvement. Here, we describe a case of 69-year-old woman diagnosed as having bone marrow and hepatic sarcoidosis without pulmonary involvement based on F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrecis: Blepharitis was the most common side effect leading to discontinuation of ripasudil therapy. Prior allergic reactions to other topical glaucoma were found to be a risk factor for ripasudil-induced blepharitis.
Purpose: To report the incidence proportion of blepharitis and its relating factors due to long-term use of 0.