Efficacy of Save Medical Corporation (SMC)-01, a Smartphone App Designed to Support Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management Based on Established Guidelines: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Lifestyle modifications are a key part of type 2 diabetes mellitus treatment. Many patients find long-term self-management difficult, and mobile apps could be a solution. In 2010, in the United States, a mobile app was approved as an official medical device.

Performance evaluation of alpha-particle discrimination using ultra-thin plastic scintillation sheets and their application to alpha-emitters for targeted alpha therapy.

Alpha-particle discrimination using ultra-thin plastic scintillator sheets for measuring the activity of α-emitters under the existence of α- and β-emitters was investigated. Am, P and Ra were also used to evaluate the applicability of the present technique to α-emitters for medicine, and the self-absorption effect due to additives was investigated for validation. The results demonstrated that ≥95% of detection efficiency for α-particles emitted from Am with ≤1% β-contribution of P for the low carrier salt concentration solution.

Cryptococcus albidus-induced summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

We studied summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis believed to be induced by Cryptococcus albidus in the home environments of the patients. All patients had antibodies that were reactive to Cryptococcus neoformans and Trichosporon cutaneum in sera and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids. Cryptococcus albidus strains were isolated from 62.

Detection of impaired fatty acid metabolism and dyskinesis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with iodine-123-BMIPP.

Metabolic imaging using 123I-labeled 15-(p-iodophenyl)-3-R,S-methylpentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) and Fourier phase analysis of gated blood-pool data were performed in a 60-yr-old woman with idiopathic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dyskinetic wall motion was identified as a markedly delayed phase angle in the left ventricular apex, which was well perfused but highly hypertrophied like other ventricular segments. Fatty acid imaging, however, clearly demonstrated highly reduced activities in the apex, although there were no abnormalities in regional systolic function or in 201TI uptake in other hypertrophied regions.

[Pulmonary complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

Pulmonary manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis were studied in 26 patients. Pulmonary complications could be divided into four subgroups: Interstitial pneumonia/Pulmonary fibrosis (n = 18), Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia (n = 4), Bronchiolitis Obliterans (n = 2), and Pleuritis/Pericarditis (n = 1). Analysis of cells in broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF) revealed abnormally high percentages of lymphocytes in one-half of the patients and abnormally high percentages of neutrophils in one-third of the patients.