Prevalence of β-agonist inhalation for outpatients in a pediatric emergency center during enterovirus D68 epidemic.

Background: Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has been reported to have caused severe bronchial asthma attacks and hospitalization epidemics in Japan in September 2015.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of β-agonist inhalation in a pediatric emergency center during a period of increased hospitalization for bronchial asthma, which was suggested to be associated with EV-D68.

Methods: We investigated the prevalence of β-agonist inhalation in a pediatric emergency center in Saga city, Japan, from April 2013 to October 2015, and also clarified the trends in bronchial asthma hospitalization in the same area during that time.

[Case with rupture of renal arterial aneurysm caused by fibromuscular dysplasia].

A 47-year-old women referred to our hospital with sudden left lower abdominal pain and state of shock in April 2006. Computed tomographic (CT) scan revealed a retroperitoneal hematoma and we suspected a renal tumor or angio myolipoma but enhanced CT scan show bleeding from a left renal artery. We perfomed left renal artery angiography and admitted a arteryal stenosis.

[Assessment of the urinary status by self-administered questionnaires in men after radical prostatectomy-- comparison with the urination status of elderly women].

The lower urinary tract anatomy in men after radical prostatectomy (RP) resembles that in women. Out of 112 male patients who had undergone RP for localized prostate cancer, 102 (91%) of them responded to a questionnaire survey. The mean age of the responders at the time of RP was 65.

[Neuroendocrine differentiation and metastasized to brain stem, intraorbit and base of tongue in prostate cancer during hormonal treatment: a case report].

Prostatic neuroendocrine (NE) carcinoma is a rare disease and the NE differentiation in prostate cancer is characterized by poor prognosis, rapidly progressing tumor and an androgen-independent state, for which there is currently no successful therapy. Herein, we report a case of NE differentiatiated prostatic cancer, which metastasized to the base of tongue, intraorbit and brain stem. This is the first Japanese report of prostate cancer metastasis to the brain stem and base of the tongue.

Mast cells appearing in long-term skeletal muscle cell cultures of rat.

Mast cells are known to be involved in type I allergy and to be localized in almost all tissues in the body. However, they have slightly different properties depending on their tissue of residence. Although mast cells are found in skeletal muscle tissue, there have been no reports of their appearance in cultured skeletal muscles.