Between-day reliability and minimum detectable change of the Conventional Gait Model 2 and Plug-in Gait Model during running.

Background: The Plug-in Gait model (PiG) is commonly used in 3D motion analysis but has limited reliability. Although an improved version of PiG has been developed, called the Conventional Gait Model 2 (CGM2), there is limited evidence on its between-day reliability for running.

Research Question: What is the between-day intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC3,k) and minimum detectable change (MDC) of lower limb kinematics and kinetics for CGM2 during running and does reliability differ between CGM2 and PiG.

Comparison of three obturator nerve block techniques for injectate spread into the obturator canal: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: The obturator nerve branches into the obturator canal; therefore, local anesthetic spread into the obturator canal predicts the success of the obturator nerve block (ONB). We compared three ONB techniques for the spread of local anesthetic mixed with contrast medium into the obturator canal.

Methods: We performed the ONB using the classical pubic approach (PA), inguinal approach (IA), or ultrasound-guided methodologic approach (UMA) in 143 patients undergoing transurethral resection of bladder tumors.

Blue fluorescence from N,O-coordinated BF complexes having aromatic chromophores in solution and the solid state.

We prepared amide-heterocycle (HC) compounds having various aromatic π-electron systems (Ar), such as phenyl, naphthyl, furyl, thienyl and phenanthryl moieties, and converted them as ligands to difluoroboronated complexes, Ar@HCs. Blue fluorescence from Ar@HCs was observed in solution and the solid state, and the fluorescence quantum yields (Φ) and lifetimes (τ) were determined. The Φ values in CHCl were as small as 0.

Cardiac Sarcoidosis Concomitant with Large-vessel Aortitis Detected by F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography.

We herein report a case of concurrent cardiac sarcoidosis and large-vessel aortitis detected by F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) and followed up during immunosuppressive therapy. After high-dose prednisolone administration (1 mg/kg), serial FDG-PET showed that almost all of the abnormal FDG uptake in the heart and extracardiac region, including the abdominal to bilateral iliac arteries, had been disappeared. During the tapering of prednisolone, additive methotrexate therapy was needed to treat the recurrence of cardiac sarcoidosis.

Cumulative exposure of TDF is associated with kidney tubulopathy whether it is currently used or discontinued.

Objective: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) increases the risk of kidney tubular dysfunction (KTD). This study was conducted to elucidate whether KTD persists after discontinuation of TDF.

Design: A prospective cross-sectional study which enrolled 941 HIV-1-infected patients.

Blue Fluorescence from BF Complexes of N,O-Benzamide Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Photophysical Properties.

Small molecules having intense luminescence properties are required to promote biological and organic material applications. We prepared five types of benzamides having pyridine, pyridazine, pyrazine, and pyrimidine rings and successfully converted them into three types of the difluoroboronated complexes, Py@BAs, as novel blue fluorophores. Py@BA having a pyridine moiety (2-Py@BA) showed no fluorescence in solution, whereas Py@BAs of pyridazine and pyrazine moieties (2,3-Py@BA and 2,5-Py@BA, respectively) emitted blue fluorescence with quantum yields of ca.

Periportal lymphatic system on post-hepatobiliary phase Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging in normal subjects and patients with chronic hepatitis C.

Purpose: We sought to evaluate visualization of periportal lymphatics and lymph nodes (lymphatic system) on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) images using a fat-suppressed T2-weighted sequence with 3-dimensional (3D) volume isotropic turbo spin echo acquisition (VISTA) at 3.0 T in normal subjects and patients with chronic hepatitis C.

Methods: MR imaging was performed in 254 subjects between June 2013 and May 2016.

Perirenal lymphatic systems: Evaluation using spectral presaturation with inversion recovery T2 -weighted MR images with 3D volume isotropic turbo spin-echo acquisition at 3.0T.

Purpose: To evaluate the normal anatomy of the perirenal lymphatics using spectral presaturation with inversion recovery (SPIR) T2 -weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with 3D volume isotropic turbo spin-echo acquisition (VISTA) at 3.0T.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study was approved by the two Institutional Review Boards and informed consent was waived.

A clinical approach to brown adipose tissue in the para-aortic area of the human thorax.

Background: Human thoracic brown adipose tissue (BAT), composed of several subdivisions, is a well-known target organ of many clinical studies; however, the functional contribution of each part of human thoracic BAT remains unknown. The present study analyzed the significance of each part of human thoracic BAT in the association between regional distribution, cellularity, and factors involved in the functional regulation of thoracic BAT.

Methods: We analyzed 1550 healthy adults who underwent medical check-ups by positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) imaging, 8 cadavers, and 78 autopsy cases in an observational study.

Lymphatic pathway around the pancreatic head and extrahepatic bile duct: evaluation using MR imaging at 3.0-T.

Purpose: To evaluate the utility of spectral presaturation with inversion recovery (SPIR) T2-weighted images with 3-dimensional (3D) volume isotropic turbo spin echo acquisition (VISTA) at 3.0-T for the detection of the normal lymphatic systems located around the pancreatic head and extrahepatic bile duct.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-six patients with suspected hepatic or pancreaticobiliary diseases and diagnosed as normal or benign pathologies were evaluated as having normal lymphatic systems.

[Development of a computer-aided diagnosis system for the distinction between benign and malignant gastric lesions].

We proposed a method for a computer-aided diagnosis system that distinguishes between benign and malignant lesions in gastrointestinal digital radiography. To begin with, the level set method was applied in order to extract a tumor region from the image which was smoothed by the bilateral filter. Next, we selected four image features with the large SN ratio among various image features obtained from a tumor region using the Mahalanobis-Taguchi method, which has been employed mainly in quality engineering.

Involvement of brown adipose tissue in subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn.

Background: Subcutaneous fat necrosis (SCFN) of the newborn is a rare condition that manifests within days after birth. The interscapular region, axillae and shoulders are the most commonly affected sites, corresponding to anatomic sites of brown adipose tissue (BAT) in newborns.

Objective: We postulated a specific involvement of BAT in SCFN and searched for brown adipocytes at affected sites.

Impact of positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the management of patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma after treatment.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to compare the usefulness and reliability of integrated whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) using (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) with those of contrast-enhanced multidetector CT during regular follow-up in patients after initial treatment of ovarian cancer, to assess the impact of FDG-PET/CT on the confirmation of recurrence, restaging, and clinical management of patients, and to determine the incremental information provided by PET/CT.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed on 19 ovarian cancer patients who underwent a total of 30 FDG-PET/CT and contrast-enhanced multidetector CT scans. The following information was obtained: the clinical information of the patients; the results of FDG-PET/CT and contrast-enhanced multidetector CT, particularly with regard to the impact on the diagnosis of recurrence; information on the localization and number of diseases; and the impact on subsequent clinical management.

[Efficacy of nurses' on the job training to better advise cessation among hospitalized smokers].

Objectives: The article describes the framework of an on-the-job training program for nurses that teaches them how to better advise hospitalized smokers to stop smoking. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of the program.

Methods: We corducted an on-the-job training program for 4 years aimed at nurses who worked in 2 of 11 wards in our hospital (training wards).

Radiotherapy combined with transarterial infusion chemotherapy and concurrent infusion of a vasoconstrictor agent for nonresectable advanced hepatic hilar duct carcinoma.

Background: The treatment of patients with advanced hepatic hilar duct carcinoma is a challenging problem. The current study was performed to evaluate the outcome of patients with advanced hepatic hilar duct carcinoma who received external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) combined with transarterial chemotherapy and infusion of a vasoconstrictor.

Methods: Between April 1993 and December 2002, 23 patients with histopathologically confirmed hilar duct carcinoma entered the study.

Ethanol injection therapy of an isolated bile duct associated with a biliary-cutaneous fistula.

Bile leakage after hepatic resection often results in the formation of a biliary-cutaneous fistula. Such a fistula, when caused by an isolated bile duct in the remnant liver, can be intractable. We report a successful case of ethanol injection therapy of an isolated bile duct.

Root of the small-bowel mesentery: correlative anatomy and CT features of pathologic conditions.

The root of the small-bowel mesentery (SBM) is an important peritoneal fold that is contiguous to other peritoneal ligaments and mesocolons. Several pathologic conditions can occur in the SBM itself, and diseases that spread through the connections from adjacent organs frequently involve it. The root of the SBM is contiguous to the hepatoduodenal ligament around the superior mesenteric vein (SMV) and contiguous to the right side of the transverse mesocolon around the gastrocolic trunk.

An immature rat lymphocyte marker CD157: striking differences in the expression between mice and rats.

We have established a novel monoclonal antibody that recognises mouse and rat CD157, and uncovered striking differences in both the level and stage of expression of this antigen in the primary lymphoid organs between these two species. Unlike mouse, the majority of rat thymocytes express CD 157. SHR and WKY rats were the exception, having unusually low levels (similar to those of the mouse) of these cells.

Leiomyoma of the parapharyngeal space.

A rare case of leiomyoma of the prestyloid parapharyngeal space is reported together with computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging findings. The tumor appeared as a well-circumscribed ovoid mass with some calcifications and lobulations. Because the attenuation, signal intensity, and shape of the mass were not specific and were similar to those of a pleomorhic adenoma, the most common tumor of the prestyloid parapharyngeal space, radiological differentiation of leiomyoma from pleomorphic adenoma of the prestyloid parapharyngeal space was difficult.

Pelvic extension of retroperitoneal fluid: analysis in vivo.

Objective: The purposes of this study were to describe the pathway of fluid flow from the retroperitoneal space into the pelvic extraperitoneal space on CT in vivo, to clarify the relation between its occurrence and the site or amount of retroperitoneal fluid, and to delineate the anatomic relation between the retroperitoneal spaces and the pelvic extraperitoneal space.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed the CT scans of 37 patients with retroperitoneal fluid collections. Patients who had undergone pelvic laparotomy and patients who had either fascial thickening alone or fluid within muscle (such as the psoas muscle or iliac muscle) alone were excluded.