: Patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) often develop complications, including paralysis of the extremities due to abnormal muscular tonicity. Furthermore, the incidence of sudden death, which may be caused by pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), is approximately 4.2%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChildren with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) are continually exposed to stress due to their need to receive daily care. In particular, chronic physical and acute mental stress derived from daily medical care due to unstable health status are issues specific to SMID children. Therefore, it is important to approach these issues for the maintenance of their lives and quality of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSudden death in patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) is sometimes caused in part by pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and deep venous thrombosis (DVT) has drawn attention as a possible embolic source. Warfarin, which is a conventional therapeutic agent, is not easy to control appropriately, and daily management can be especially difficult in SMID patients. On the other hand, edoxaban tosilate hydrate, which has been newly approved for insurance coverage for the treatment of DVT, is not listed in the Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT-PTE guidelines).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years, the incidence rate of childhood tuberculosis (TB) in Japan has declined steadily and it reached at a lower level than that in U.S. On the other hand, because the incidence rate in adults has still stayed at a moderately high level, the chance to receive TB infection for children cannot be disregarded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The major dog allergens, Can f 1 and Can f 2, are members of the lipocalin protein family. The characterization of both dog allergens is still not complete. Their deduced amino acid sequences indicate the presence of three cysteine residues, probably connected with a disulfide bridge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recombinant dog allergens, rCan f 1 and rCan f 2, and their antibodies are good tools for the characterization of dog allergens in order to develop modern therapeutic and preventive methods for dog allergy.
Methods: In this study, cDNA was synthesized from the mRNA of dog salivary glands and cloned into the pGEX4T vector. rCan f 1 and rCan f 2 containing glutathione S-transferase were prepared by an Escherichia coli expression system.
In order to evaluate the changes in Japanese Cedar (JC) sensitization rates of allergic children, serum samples from 88 patients about 15 years ago (past group) and those from 91 current patients (present group) were randomly selected, and their JC specific IgE were measured with the CAP-RAST system. Sensitivity rate (class 2 or more) for JC of the present group was 65.9%, which was significantly higher than that of the past group, which was 46.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to evaluate the changes in food allergen sensitization rates of allergic children, serum samples from 85 patients about 15 years ago (past group) and those from 90 current patients (present group) were randomly selected, and the specific IgE for six food allergens (wheat, peanuts, sesame, mackerel, ovomucoid, and kiwi) were measured with the CAP-RAST system. Sensitivity rates (class 2 or higher) for wheat and peanuts were significantly higher in the present than in the past group. Although there was no statistical difference in sensitivity rates (class 2 or higher) for kiwi between the groups, sensitivity rates (class 1 or higher) of the present group were significantly higher than those of the past group, indicating that the number of cases mildly sensitized to kiwi has been increasing.
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