[Usefulness of moxifloxacin tablet on nursing and health care-associated pneumonia--a prospective study with a simple suspension method].

Patients with nursing and health care-associated pneumonia (NHCAP) include those at risk for aspiration or those who have difficulties to take pills. We conducted a prospective study to examine the efficacy and safety of moxifloxacin (MFLX) administration through an enteral feeding tube by a simple suspension method in patients with NHCAP receiving long-term care at the hospital. The study was performed in subjects meeting the definition of NHCAP according to the Japanese Respiratory Society amongst patients with pneumonia who were fed by a feeding tube under long-term care at Makita General Hospital during the period from Dec.

Repeated non-enhancing tumefactive lesions in a patient with a neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder.

A 51-year-old woman had developed fever and consciousness disturbance at 47 years of age. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed acute disseminating encephalomyelitis (ADEM)-like lesions without gadolinium enhancement (GDE). One year later, she had an episode of bilateral optic neuritis and cerebellar ataxia.

Unilateral Measles-Associated Retrobulbar Optic Neuritis without Encephalitis: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Optic neuritis (ON) is a rare neurological complication of measles infection. Little is known about measles-associated retrobulbar ON. Here, we report a distinct patient with unilateral retrobulbar ON due to measles infection.