Efficacy of Supervised Exercise Therapy for Intermittent Claudication in a Case With Buerger's Disease.

Herein, we report a case of intermittent claudication (IC) caused by Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans {TAO}), which we treated using supervised exercise therapy (SET). The patient was a 58-year-old male with a history of smoking who presented with IC and resting pain in the right lower extremity, which had led to necrosis of the right first toe eight years prior to presentation. The non-healing right first toe was amputated and the patient underwent angiogenesis therapy in the right lower extremity.

Cytokine Profile of Human Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Involvement of JAK/STAT Pathway.

: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is characterized by inflammation and destruction of normal tissue architecture. The present study aimed to evaluate the inflammatory signaling cascade by analyzing the cytokines of AAA tissue. : We analyzed the comprehensive cytokine secretion profiles of 52 cytokines from human AAA in four patients with AAA using fluorescent beads-based multiplex assay.

Preoperative Cardiovascular Assessment and Late Cardiovascular Events after Elective Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.

Background: Cardiovascular evaluation is performed before elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) because of the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease. We investigated the association between preoperative cardiovascular evaluation and the incidence of late cardiovascular events after AAA repair.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 438 patients who underwent elective repair of AAA.

D-dimer value more than 3.6 μg/ml is highly possible existence deep vein thrombosis.

Objective: The present study aimed to establish whether a more optimal cutoff value for D-dimer testing could definitively rule out acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Methods: Between April 2009 and March 2010, 190 referral patients suspected to have DVT were assessed by the D-dimer assay. Additionally, ultrasonography (US) and computed tomography (CT) imaging were performed to detect thrombosis.

[Long-term outcomes of thoracic endovascular aortic repair with homemade stent-grafts].

We reviewed our experience with homemade stent-grafts in the repair of thoracic aortic lesions. The objective of this study was to assess the long-term outcomes of this therapy. From 1999 to 2008, homemade stent-grafts were inserted in 94 patients with various thoracic diseases.

Preoperative visualization of the artery of Adamkiewicz by dual-phase CT angiography in patients with aortic aneurysm.

To improve our ability to visualize the Adamkiewicz artery (AKA), we developed a modified intravenous CT angiography technique, which we refer to as right atrial CT (RA-CT) angiography. In this study, AKA detection rate and visualization of the arterial continuity from the aorta to the anterior spinal cord artery (ASA) was evaluated using RA-CT angiography.We performed RA-CT angiography in 110 patients with abdominal, thoracic descending, or thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms.

Non-permanent inferior vena cava filters for prophylaxis and treatment of lower limb venous thromboembolism.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare our recent clinical experience with temporary inferior vena cava (IVC) filters (TF) and retrievable IVC filters (RF).

Materials And Methods: Patients who received TF or RF implantation between October 2002 and May 2009 were studied. The early clinical outcomes between the 2 groups were compared.

[Construction and evaluation of a cancer chemotherapy regimen database using an electronic medical chart network].

Purpose: There are many regimens for cancer chemotherapy, and thus information management is complicated. It is thought that the safe and appropriate use of cancer chemotherapy can be achieved by developing a system that involves information-sharing among medical staff. A system facilitating the choice of regimen was developed in our institution using an electronic medical chart network.