A case of rapidly progressive prostate cancer with bone and lymph node metastasis after contact laser vaporization for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Introduction: Prostate cancer is incidentally diagnosed in 6%-11% of benign prostatic hyperplasia surgeries.

Case Presentation: A 79-year-old man was diagnosed with benign prostatic hyperplasia. The prostate volume was 54.

Contextual memory bias in emotional events: Neurobiological correlates and depression risk.

Background: Contextual memory loss of emotional events plays a critical role in depression psychopathology. Individuals with depression, clinical or subclinical, exhibit enhanced and impaired memory for emotionally negative stimuli and context in an event, respectively. This suggests that contextual encoding may fail because of attentional interference caused by concurrent negative stimuli, possibly leading to contextual memory loss as a depression risk.

CXCL12/CXCR4 pathway as a novel therapeutic target for RNF213-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Genetic backgrounds of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) were not fully investigated. A variant of c.14429G > A (p.

Cumulative incidence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium detection by patient characteristics or possible exposures: prioritization of patients for active screening culture.

Background: The target population for active surveillance culture (ASC) of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species (VRE) by stool or rectal swabs has not been fully determined during VRE outbreaks in healthcare settings in non-VRE endemic situation.

Aim: To evaluate cumulative incidences of VRE detection during a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak to determine reasonable target populations for ASC.

Methods: Cases included inpatients whose first VRE-positive sample was obtained at Shizuoka General Hospital between February 2022 and January 2023, during which we conducted admission screening for possible high-risk patients, bi-weekly screening of all inpatients, admission and discharge screening in the high-care unit, and screening of contacts in each ward using stool or rectal samples.