Gastrointestinal bleeding and blood transfusion in the elderly in Japan.

Background/aims: The incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) increases with age and blood transfusion is frequently given for the management of GIB. In this report, we summarized our data of the patients with GIB and discussed the relationship between blood transfusion and age in patients with GIB.

Methodology: The patients were divided into two groups according to age, following elderly (≥75 years old) and younger (<75 years old) group.

Gastrointestinal bleeding associated with antithrombotic therapy in the elderly in Japan.

Background/aims: We summarize data of patients with gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) and discuss the relationship between antithrombotic drug use and age in patients with GIB.

Methodology: One-hundred and twenty patients with GIB were divided into two groups according to age (=75 years old and <75 years old). The causes and clinical outcome of each group were compared.

The time-related changes of the importance of prognostic factors in breast cancer. A sequential multivariate analysis of 1423 Japanese patients.

The value of individual prognostic factors may change dependent on the length of the follow-up period, if some factors have their greatest prognostic potential immediately after operation. It is not clear how long these factors keep their prognostic relevance. We retrospectively examined data on 1423 surgically treated Japanese patients with primary breast cancer between 1983 and 2002.

Clinicopathological feature and long-term prognosis of apocrine carcinoma of the breast in Japanese women.

Because of the rarity of apocrine carcinoma and lack of standardized criteria for the diagnosis, the definitive conclusions of clinicopathologic features and the prognosis has not been determined. We retrospectively examined data on 2091 curatively treated Japanese patients with primary breast carcinoma. Among them, 33 (1.