Cross-sectional area on magnetic resonance images of the semitendinosus tendon is strongly related to the collagen fibril diameter.

Purpose: Using a thin semitendinosus tendon as an autograft is a risk factor for poor clinical outcomes after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Preoperative evaluation of the cross-sectional area of the semitendinosus tendon using magnetic resonance imaging is useful. However, studies comparing the cross-sectional area of the semitendinosus tendon on magnetic resonance imaging and the collagen fibril diameter of the semitendinosus tendon are lacking.

Determination of the reference range for semi-quantified elasticity of healthy supraspinatus muscles using real-time tissue elastography and its clinical use in patients after rotator cuff repair.

Background: The quantitative assessment of healthy supraspinatus muscle elasticity may provide clinically useful preliminary information after rotator cuff repairs. We aimed to determine the reference range for supraspinatus muscle semi-quantified elasticity and describe how it can be used clinically after rotator cuff repair.

Methods: The elasticity of healthy bilateral supraspinatus muscles in 43 participants aged between 24 and 75 years (categorized into two subgroups: <50 and ≥ 50 years) was measured as a strain ratio at 0° and 60° of shoulder abduction using real-time tissue elastography.

Poor Prognosis With Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin History After Photodynamic Diagnosis-assisted Transurethral Resection Using 5-Aminolevulinic Acid.

Background/aim: Diagnostic efficacy and treatment outcome of orally administered 5 aminolevulinic acid (ALA) assessment for photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) in transurethral resection for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in clinical practice.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed of 105 patients who underwent PDD transurethral resection using orally administered ALA and were pathologically diagnosed with Ta, T1, or Tis at the Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital from December 2018 to May 2022.

Results: Fluorescent light had a significantly higher sensitivity but a lower specificity in detecting carcinoma compared to white light (91.

Providing safe and effective rehabilitation by assessing supraspinatus muscle elasticity using ultrasound real-time tissue elastography after rotator cuff repair: A case series.

Introduction: Although surgical techniques have advanced to avoid a postoperative re-tear after rotator cuff surgery, it remains unclear how to directly evaluate the risk of a re-tear.

Objective: To describe how muscle elasticity with real-time tissue elastography could be used to avoid re-tear in individual cases after rotator cuff repair.

Case Description: This case series included four patients, two per tear size (small and large/massive), with contrasting changes in muscle elasticity of the supraspinatus muscle.

Hokuriku-plus familial hypercholesterolaemia registry study: rationale and study design.

Introduction: Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is an autosomal-dominant inherited genetic disease. It carries an extremely high cardiovascular risk associated with significantly elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. The diagnostic rate of this disease in some European nations is quite high, due to the presence of multiple prospective registries.

Risk factors for noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury in female high school basketball and handball players: A prospective 3-year cohort study.

Introduction: The risk factors of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury remain an enigma. The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate the risk factors for noncontact ACL injury in female high school basketball and handball players.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a 3-year prospective cohort study between 2009 and 2014, and it included 317 female high school athletes aged 15 years.

Greater body mass index and hip abduction muscle strength predict noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury in female Japanese high school basketball players.

Purpose: This 3-year prospective study assessed risk factors for noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in female Japanese high school basketball players. Players suffering noncontact ACL injuries were assumed to demonstrate poorer hip abductor, knee flexor, and knee extensor muscle strength, as well as static balance, than those without injuries.

Methods: One hundred and ninety-five new female high school basketball players underwent baseline examinations for various parameters during their first year of high school.

Hip and Ankle Kinematics in Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Situations: Video Analysis Using Model-Based Image Matching.

Background: Detailed kinematic descriptions of real anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury situations are limited to the knee only.

Purpose: To describe hip and ankle kinematics as well as foot position relative to the center of mass (COM) in ACL injury situations through use of a model-based image-matching (MBIM) technique. The distance between the projection of the COM on the ground and the base of support (BOS) (COM_BOS) normalized to the femur length was also evaluated.

Impact of evolocumab treatment on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemic patients withdrawing from regular apheresis.

Background And Aims: Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) apheresis has been used to treat refractory hyperlipidemia such as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Evolocumab, a proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor used in clinical settings, can reduce LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) levels by >70%. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the impact of evolocumab on withdrawal from regular LDL apheresis in patients with heterozygous FH (HeFH).

Two-dimensional motion analysis of dynamic knee valgus identifies female high school athletes at risk of non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Purpose: Female athletes are at greater risk of non-contact ACL injury. Three-dimensional kinematic analyses have shown that at-risk female athletes have a greater knee valgus angle during drop jumping. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between knee valgus angle and non-contact ACL injury in young female athletes using coronal-plane two-dimensional (2D) kinematic analyses of single-leg landing.

Psychological traits regarding competitiveness are related to the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injury in high school female athletes.

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological competitive ability and the incidence of noncontact ACL injuries among high school female athletes.

Methods: A three-year prospective cohort study was conducted using 300 15-year-old high school female athletes with no previous injuries or symptoms in their lower limbs (106 handball players and 194 basketball players). At baseline, their psychological competitive abilities were assessed using a self-administered questionnaire-the Diagnostic Inventory of Psychological Competitive Ability (DIPCA.

Subclinical primary aldosteronism.

Screening for primary aldosteronism was historically recommended in patients with moderate to severe and/or resistant hypertension. Patients with mild hypertension and normotensive subjects were therefore excluded from the screening. However, a considerable number of normotensive individuals without hypokalaemia may have subclinical forms of primary aldosteronism.

Adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung in a patient with complete situs inversus.

We present a rare case of adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung in a patient with complete situs inversus. The patient was a 76-year-old woman with the chief complaint of hemosputum. Chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) scans of the thorax showed a mirror image of the organs and vessels and revealed a tumor 3.

Impact of bezafibrate and atorvastatin on lipoprotein subclass in patients with type III hyperlipoproteinemia: result from a crossover study.

Background: We elucidated the difference between the effects of bezafibrate and atorvastatin in hypertriglyceridemia with apoE2/2 and 3/3.

Methods: An open randomized crossover study consisted of a 4-week treatment period with bezafibrate (400 mg daily) or atorvastatin (10 mg daily) and a 4-week wash-out period.

Results: Bezafibrate significantly decreased serum concentrations of triglyceride (apoE2/2, E3/3: -49.

Advanced lung cancer invading the left atrium, treated with pneumonectomy combined with left atrium resection under cardiopulmonary bypass.

A 68-year-old man presented with a chief complaint being a cough. Based on a bronchoscopic biopsy, it was diagnosed at a nearby clinic as an advanced left lung cancer, and he was referred to our hospital. Chest computed tomography (CT) scans demonstrated a giant mass of the left lower lobe, 14 × 12 cm in size, which appeared to have invaded the left atrium (LA).

Prevalence of primary aldosteronism among prehypertensive and stage 1 hypertensive subjects.

Recent studies have reported a high prevalence of primary aldosteronism among patients with severe hypertension. However, the prevalence of this disease among normotensive and mildly hypertensive patients has not been determined. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of primary aldosteronism among prehypertensive and stage 1 hypertensive subjects.

Modification of the surgical procedure to enable the complete resection of lung cancer with carcinomatous pleuritis.

Carcinomatous pleuritis, accompanied by pleural dissemination or malignant pleural effusion, is listed as one of the factors limiting adequate surgical treatment. It is relatively easy to peel the parietal pleura of the chest wall and mediastinum during a pleuropneumonectomy, but it is quite difficult to peel the parietal pleura of the diaphragm. A pleuropneumonectomy was conducted with the combined resection of the pericardium and all layers of the diaphragm without opening of the peritoneum through a posterolateral subcostal approach.

Clinicopathological study of surgically treated cases of tracheobronchial adenoid cystic carcinoma.

Between 1980 and 2007, five patients were pathologically diagnosed as tracheobronchial adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC). All five patients were women aged 37-67 years. Four tumors were located in the larger airways, and one tumor was located in the peripheral lung.

Intractable lung abscess successfully treated with cavernostomy and free omental plombage using microvascular surgery.

A 68-year-old man, complaining of fever and puriform sputum, was referred to our hospital. A giant abscess was detected in the upper lobe of the right lung. Percutaneous drainage of a lung abscess was carried out.

Total esophago-gastrectomy followed by composite reconstruction with retrosternal pedicled jejunum and antethoracic-free jejunal autograft: a case report.

The patient was a 72-year-old man. He received a detailed gastrointestinal examination because of severe anemia. Early multiple esophageal cancers (affecting 3 sites of the esophagus) and advanced gastric cancer were detected.

A case of intrathoracic giant malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in neurofibromatosis type I (von Recklinghausen's disease).

The patient was a 32-year-old woman with neurofibromatosis I (von Recklinghausen's disease), with chief complaints of shortness of breath and back pain. CT and MRI revealed a giant mass occupying the right thoracic cavity almost completely. The mass compressed the mediastinal structure to the left and the liver downwards.