[The application and usefulness of virtual reality aimed at encouraging an understanding of and reducing and eliminating prejudice towards dementia patients among local residents].

Aim: To demonstrate the usefulness of a virtual reality device that authentically portrays the emotions of dementia patients and their families (VR Dementia Experience) for encouraging an understanding of and reducing and eliminating prejudice towards dementia patients among local residents.

Method: In Prefecture T, Town N, 85 residents of Neighborhood A were chosen as the intervention group, and 95 residents of Neighborhood B were chosen as the non-intervention group. The VR Dementia Experience was provided only to the residents of Neighborhood A.

[Contrast nephropathy with a non-ionic iodide medium in patients with normal and mildly impaired renal function].

Effects of infusion of a non-ionic contrast medium(iopamidol, 370 mg l/ml) on renal function in a normovolemic state were examined in patients with normal and mildly affected renal function who underwent coronary angiography(CAG). The patients were divided into three groups: group I (n = 69) with serum creatinine(S-Cr) level < 1.0 mg/dl; group II (n = 50) with S-Cr level of 1.

Dipyridamole and dilazep suppress oxygen radicals in puromycin aminonucleoside nephrosis rats.

Background: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are involved in the pathophysiology of puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN) nephrosis. To elucidate further the role of radicals in PAN nephrosis and the to determine the particular radical species scavenged by dipyridamole (DPM) and dilazep (DZ), we applied chemiluminescence and electron spin resonance (ESR) techniques.

Methods: Chemiluminescence of glomeruli, which were isolated on day 7 from rats injected with 100 mg kg-1 PAN, was measured with or without scavengers.

[Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis-like lesion with fibrillary deposition associated with multicentric Castleman's disease].

We report a case of a 65-year-old man presenting with multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) accompanied by membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis-like lesion with fibrillary deposits. The lesion was characterized by highly organized ultrastructual deposits that were negative for Congo-red stain and for immunoglobulin, light chain and C3. Thus, this renal lesion was considered histologically to be fibrillary glomerulonephritis presenting by light microscopy as mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis.

[A case of anti-basement membrane (BM) mediated disease presenting renal and pulmonary symptoms by divergent timing].

A case of 49-year-old man with anti-GBM antibody and who manifested pulmonary and renal symptoms at divergent times. Thirty-six years previously, renal disease with unneglectable degree of proteinuria was noticed. One month before admission, he was found by chance to have elevated serum creatine (Scr); 3.