Vegetable juice has been demonstrated to attenuate the elevation of postprandial blood glucose when consumed prior to meals. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of pre-meal consumption of vegetable juice on blood glucose and insulin levels. A total of 10 healthy volunteers aged 20-29 years ingested 200 ml of either water, a sugar solution with the same sugar composition as the vegetable juice or vegetable juice 30 min prior to consuming the cooked rice, and their blood glucose and insulin levels were measured.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Equations for the creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were recently established for Japanese adults (>18 years old) and children (2-11 years old), respectively, but it is unclear whether eGFR can be as useful as 24-h creatinine clearance (CCr) for assessing renal function in patients receiving chemotherapy. This study examined the degree of concordance between eGFR and CCr and the risk factors leading to the overestimation of renal function by eGFR.
Methods: A total of 53 data points of 19 children and 56 data points of 16 adults who received chemotherapy were analyzed retrospectively.
Introduction: Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT) is a rare, highly malignant, and aggressive tumor of infancy. Although the prognosis of ATRT has been extremely poor, recently, the first prospective study for ATRT demonstrated improvement of prognosis. On the other hands, oculomotor nerve palsy is rare in children and the most frequent etiology is congenital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 3-month-old male with a mass on the right side of his back was admitted to our hospital. The tumor was a pathologically high-grade nonrhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma (NRSTS). Treatment included subtotal tumor resection followed by chemotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Hematol Oncol
January 2011
The prognosis of high-risk rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) with metastatic or recurrent disease remains poor. We report a 6-year-old girl who successfully underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation against recurrent metastatic alveolar RMS. The disease recurred at distant lymph node metastasis with bone marrow involvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 6-month-old girl visited our hospital because of mental retardation, regression, and tonic spasms in cluster. We diagnosed her as West syndrome because of hypsarrhythmia on electroencephalogram (EEG) and tonic spasms in cluster. We also diagnosed her as Kabuki syndrome because of multiple malformations, especially a characteristic peculiar face (resembling a Kabuki actor).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince plasma exchange (PE) and intravenous immunoglobulin (i.v.Ig) have been widely used in treatment for Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), early relapse and treatment-related fluctuation have been a potential problem, but little is known about the mechanism of relapse and fluctuation.
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