Successful curative resection of gallbladder cancer following S-1 chemotherapy: A case report and review of the literature.

The symptoms of gallbladder cancer (GBC) are vague and non-specific. Therefore, GBC is often detected at an advanced or metastatic stage. The most effective treatment for GBC is surgical resection, however the majority of GBC cases are unresectable at the time of diagnosis.

Construction of predictive models for cancer-specific survival of patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with bacillus Calmette-Guérin: results from a multicenter retrospective study.

Objective: The aims of this study were to clarify the prognostic factors and to validate the bacillus Calmette-Guérin failure classification advocated by Nieder et al. in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who had intravesical recurrence after bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy.

Methods: Data from 402 patients who received intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy between January 1990 and November 2011 were collected from 10 institutes.

Hyponatremia is an independent predictor of adverse clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients due to worsening heart failure.

Background And Purpose: Hyponatremia is common and is associated with poor in-hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF). However, it is unknown whether hyponatremia is associated with long-term adverse outcomes. The purpose of this study was to clarify the characteristics, clinical status on admission, and management during hospitalization according to the serum sodium concentration on admission, and determine whether hyponatremia was associated with in-hospital as well as long-term outcomes in 1677 patients hospitalized with worsening HF on index hospitalization registered in the database of the Japanese Cardiac Registry of Heart Failure in Cardiology (JCARE-CARD).

Chronic expanding hematoma in the chest.

Chronic expanding hematoma in the chest is identified as a specific type of chronic empyema. We encountered a case of chest chronic expanding hematoma presenting as a huge mass, which compressed the heart, trachea and esophagus. The disease was recognized as a cause of aspiration pneumonia and was successfully treated by surgical resection.

Hericium erinaceum (yamabushitake) extract-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome monitored by serum surfactant proteins.

This is the first report suggesting a causal relationship between acute respiratory distress syndrome and Hericium erinaceum extract, which is commercialized as a diet food. A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for intensive care of severe acute respiratory failure with diffuse infiltration in both lungs. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid revealed a high percentage of lymphocytes.