Publications by authors named "S Matsukura"
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- * A case study is presented of a 78-year-old Japanese man with bullous pemphigoid (BP) and AFVI who was treated with prednisolone but experienced serious complications, including gastrointestinal bleeding and septic shock.
- * The study suggests that testing for coagulation disorders, such as AFVI, is essential during the treatment of autoimmune diseases like BP, potentially due to a connection between specific antibodies and clotting factors.
Droplet microfluidic-based technology is a powerful tool for biotechnology, and it is also expected that it will be applied to culturing and screening methods. Using this technology, a new high-throughput screening method for lactic acid bacteria was developed. In this study, the conventional culture of lactic acid bacteria that form clear zones on an agar medium was reproduced in water-in-oil droplets, and only the droplets in which lactic acid bacteria grew were collected one by one.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The healthcare burden of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) is increasing, but the diagnosis remains challenging and sometimes requires considerable time. This nested case-control study aims to clarify the time to diagnosis of NTM-PD, the factors that affect diagnosis and diagnostic delay, and changes in CT findings before diagnosis.
Patients And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 187 patients suspected of having NTM-PD based on computed tomography (CT) findings at our institution between January 2019 and September 2020.
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- The study aims to identify genetic biomarkers that can help differentiate between ovarian serous carcinoma (OSC) and ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC), two distinct types of epithelial ovarian cancer with different characteristics.
- Researchers analyzed RNA from 57 surgical specimens of EOC patients using DNA microarray technology to find gene expression differences between the two cancer types.
- They identified 10 candidate genes that were up-regulated in OCCC compared to OSC, suggesting these genes could serve as effective diagnostic markers and may provide insights into the distinct behaviors of these carcinomas, including OCCC's resistance to chemotherapy.
Treatment with drugs can cause lung disorders. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are often associated with organizing pneumonia. Capillary leak syndrome is a clinical form of drug-induced lung injury, a rare condition characterized by hemoconcentration, hypoalbuminemia, and hypovolemic shock.
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