A 70-year-old woman visited our hospital with hypertension, diplopia, and right orbital pain. Neurological examination revealed right ophthalmoplegia. CT angiography and MRI identified a right persistent trigeminal artery (PTA), right persistent hypoglossal artery, and bovine aortic arch.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We investigated recurrent stroke volume with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients treated with non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) about clinical backgrounds and number of recurrent stroke.
Methods: We administered 4 NOACs, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, and edoxaban in 101 postcardioembolic strokes with NVAF. In a retrospective study, we measured recurrent stroke volume with magnetic resonance imaging volumetric software and compared them between 10 vitamin K anticoagulant (VKA: warfarin) cases and 13 NOAC cases under anticoagulant therapy.
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting(CINV)is one of the side effects causing significant psychological and physical suffering in patients receiving chemotherapy. Because CINV often impairs patients' quality of life and leads to discontinuation of treatments, antiemetic therapy has been considered important. The MASCC Antiemesis Tool(MAT)was proposed for the assessment of acute and delayed nausea and vomiting after, we evaluated the actual situation of nausea and vomiting for Japanese patients.
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