Publications by authors named "S Tsubata"
Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (ATIN), a rare cause of acute kidney injury in children, is caused by various factors such as drugs, infection, and systemic inflammation. We herein present a case of ATIN with mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesion (MERS)-like findings on head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which was associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. A 14-year-old girl presented to our hospital with a high fever for 5 days.
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- - Hepatic small vessel neoplasia (HSVN) is a newly identified liver hemangioma with unclear cancer risk, mostly found in asymptomatic patients.
- - Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a rare condition that leads to liver venous blockage and has been linked to benign liver nodules, but no prior cases have associated it with HSVN.
- - In this case study, a patient diagnosed with BCS 13 years earlier had liver nodules that were later confirmed as multifocal HSVN at autopsy, highlighting the need to examine imaging changes and the potential link between BCS and HSVN.
IgA vasculitis is the most common systemic small vasculitis in children. Its major clinical manifestations are palpable purpura, arthritis and arthralgias, gastrointestinal involvement, and renal manifestations. Regarding gastrointestinal manifestations, steroids are effective in reducing abdominal pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the developments in the treatment for hepatitis, it is possible to prevent the progression of liver fibrosis and improve patients' prognosis even if it has already led to liver cirrhosis (LC). Consequently, a two-step study was conducted. To begin with, a retrospective study was conducted to identify the potential predictors of non-malignancy-related mortality from LC.
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