Publications by authors named "Yoko Kozuki"

Histopathologic findings in the lymph nodes of patients with thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, reticulin fibrosis, renal dysfunction, and organomegaly (TAFRO) syndrome are similar to those of idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease (iMCD), but TAFRO syndrome is different from iMCD in how it can progress rapidly and be fatal. These patients present scarce lymphadenopathy and low immunoglobulin levels. We present a case of cutaneous and systemic plasmacytosis (C/SP) that caused TAFRO syndrome-like symptoms which were successfully treated with rituximab.

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) oophoritis is an extremely rare and fatal condition. We encountered a 63-year-old woman with CMV oophoritis who had been treated for Burkitt's lymphoma. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography performed after chemotherapy showed a high F-fluoro-2deoxy-D-glucose uptake in both ovaries, which required distinguishing relapse.

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The recent global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to vaccination in many parts of the world for herd immunity, and as vaccination has progressed, several rare adverse events have been reported. Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) has been reported to be one of the rare adverse events caused by vaccination with MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine and influenza vaccine. In addition, ITP has been reported to occur in a small number of cases associated with the COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine.

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Disseminated cryptococcosis, usually involving the lungs and central nervous system, carries a high risk of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts. In this report, we describe a case of miliary pulmonary cryptococcosis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia, initially resembling miliary tuberculosis. The diagnosis of disseminated cryptococcosis was made based on transbronchial lung biopsy with subsequent detection of Cryptococcus neoformans in blood and cerebrospinal fluid.

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