Pushing the limits of microfluidic droplet production efficiency: engineering microchannels with seamlessly implemented 3D inverse colloidal crystals.

Although droplet microfluidics has been studied for the past two decades, its applications are still limited due to the low productivity of microdroplets resulting from the low integration of planar microchannel structures. In this study, a microfluidic system implementing inverse colloidal crystals (ICCs), a spongious matrix with regularly and densely formed three-dimensional (3D) interconnected micropores, was developed to significantly increase the throughput of microdroplet generation. A new bottom-up microfabrication technique was developed to seamlessly integrate the ICCs into planar microchannels by accumulating non-crosslinked spherical PMMA microparticles as sacrificial porogens in a selective area of a mold and later dissolving them.

Standard values for temporal muscle thickness in the Japanese population who undergo brain check-up by magnetic resonance imaging.

Background: Skeletal muscle mass is an important factor for various diseases' outcomes. The psoas muscle cross-sectional area on the abdominal computed tomography (CT), gait speed, and handgrip strength is used to measure it. However, it is difficult to measure the neurological patients' muscle mass or function because (1) we do not perform abdominal CT.

Parent Artery Occlusion against Dissecting Aneurysm Involving the Proximal Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery: Case Report and Literature Review.

Dissecting aneurysms of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) are rare. Few reports suggested that coil embolization and parent artery occlusion (PAO) would be valuable treatment options against dissecting AICA aneurysms. We report a case of PAO against dissecting aneurysm involving the proximal AICA and discuss the therapeutics and literature review of this pathology.

Temporal muscle thickness and area with various characteristics data of the patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage who underwent endovascular coiling.

These data present the characteristics of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage who underwent endovascular coiling. We retrospectively collected data from the medical records of Iwaki City Medical Center including physiological symptoms, laboratory data, radiological data on admission, and modified Rankin Scale scores at 6 months. Our article entitled "Temporal Muscle as an Indicator of Sarcopenia is Independently Associated with Hunt and Kosnik Grade on Admission and the Modified Rankin Scale at 6 Month of Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Treated by Endovascular Coiling" was based on these data [1].