UTILITY OF ORAL FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY WITH ULTRA-WIDEFIELD IMAGING SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION OF VARIOUS RETINAL DISORDERS.

Purpose: To evaluate the utility of oral fluorescein angiography with ultra-widefield imaging system (oral UWF-FA) predominantly in children.

Methods: We recruited 17 patients aged 2 years to 22 years with retinal disorders. Each patient ingested a dose of fluorescein sodium set by body weight mixed with 100 mL of juice.

Effects of head tilt on visual field testing with a head-mounted perimeter imo.

Purpose: A newly developed head-mounted perimeter termed "imo" enables visual field (VF) testing without a fixed head position. Because the positional relationship between the subject's head and the imo is fixed, the effects of head position changes on the test results are small compared with those obtained using a stationary perimeter. However, only ocular counter-roll (OCR) induced by head tilt might affect VF testing.

Visual Field Testing with Head-Mounted Perimeter 'imo'.

Purpose: We developed a new portable head-mounted perimeter, "imo", which performs visual field (VF) testing under flexible conditions without a dark room. Besides the monocular eye test, imo can present a test target randomly to either eye without occlusion (a binocular random single eye test). The performance of imo was evaluated.

[Coinfection with Pneumocystis jirovecii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a patient with AIDS: a first report in Japan].

A 24-year-old man was admitted with a 7-month history of non-productive cough, and recent onset of fever and progressive dyspnea. A chest X-ray film and computed tomography (CT) scan showed bilateral infiltrates that indicated pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP). A transbronchial lung biopsy specimen demonstrated Pneumocystis jirovecii infection on Grocott staining, and was positive for acid-fast bacilli without necrotizing granuloma, which indicated coinfection with both Pneumocystis jirovecii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

[Two cases of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis mimicking pneumonia in lung cancer patients].

Background: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) occurs predominantly in immunocompromised hosts, however increasing numbers of cases of IPA have been reported among basically immunocompetent patients who have some pulmonary abnormalities such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Case: Case 1. A 67-year-old man was admitted because of hemoptysis and purpura.

Organising pneumonia after near-drowning.

A 38 year-old female with no significant medical history was transferred to a medical centre in Hawaii after near-drowning at the beach. She was noted to have increasing shortness of breath. Subsequently she was placed on non-invasive ventilation and then intubated for respiratory support.