Effects of daily walking on intermuscular adipose tissue accumulation with age: a 5-year follow-up of participants in a lifestyle-based daily walking program.

Purpose: Intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) accumulates with age. However, there has been no long-term intervention study examining whether daily walking prevents or decreases the age-related IMAT accumulation. The purpose of this study was to determine effects of a long-term lifestyle-based daily walking program on age-related IMAT accumulation after a 5-year follow-up.

Effect of bromhexine hydrochloride therapy for alcoholic chronic pancreatitis.

Background: Abstinence is a prerequisite for the treatment of alcoholic chronic pancreatitis, but there are patients who have repeated attacks because of their inability to abstain and the consequent congestive effects of the continued alcohol intake on pancreatic juice. Bromhexine hydrochloride, a bronchial mucolytic, has an affinity for acinar cells and causes them to secrete pancreatic juice of low viscosity.

Methods: Twelve patients with alcoholic chronic pancreatitis, who were unable to abstain from drinking, were administered bromhexine hydrochloride for 6 months to assess its therapeutic efficacy.

Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst caused by obstruction of the pancreatic duct was eliminated by bromhexine hydrochloride.

A 49-year-old man, who had a 30-year history of drinking the equivalent of 80 g of ethanol per day, underwent a detailed medical examination for cough and dyspnea. Chest-abdominal computed tomography and endoscopic retrograde pancreatography led to the diagnosis of a mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst resulting from obstruction of the pancreatic duct by a protein plug. The pseudocyst rapidly improved with conservative treatment with camostat mesilate, H2-receptor antagonist and digestive enzymes.

Onset of ischemic colitis following use of electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) exercise equipment.

Our patient was a 71-year-old man who presented with lower abdominal pain, and bloody and white mucosal stools. He purchased by mail-order an electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) device, which he strapped onto his lower abdomen, and for 2 consecutive days he underwent muscle stimulation comprising 600 contractions at 2.40 mA and 1.