Feasibility and Clinical Usefulness of a Novel Nonwearable Sheet-Type Monitor (Nemuri SCAN): Prognostic Value of Increased Respiratory Rate in Actively Dying Patients.

The objective of this study was to explore the feasibility of monitoring actively dying patients hospitalized in a palliative care unit using a nonwearable sheet-type monitor that measured the state of sleep and vital signs per minute. In addition, we aimed to clarify the incidence of increased respiratory rate and its relationship with survival time. This study was conducted at a 51-bed palliative care unit in Japan from April 2018 through October 2019.

[Locally Advanced Breast Cancer Successfully Treated with Abemaciclib and Fulvestrant-A Case Report].

A 78-year-old woman visited our hospital for a tumor in her left breast with discharge. The 10 cm tumor had ulceration and foul smell. Scirrhous breast carcinoma was diagnosed based on core-needle biopsy findings.

[A Case of Advanced Rectal Cancer with the Metastatic Abdominal Aortic Bifurcation Lymph Node Performed by Laparoscopic Surgery after Chemotherapy].

A 63-year-old underwent examination for constipation and was found to have an unresectable advanced rectal cancer. Metastatic abdominal aortic bifurcation lymph node and lung metastasis were suspected upon CT(cT3N3M1a[PUL1], cStage Ⅳa), and chemotherapy was administered(CapeOX plus Bmab). After 4 courses of chemotherapy, the size of the primary tumor and the lymph nodes decreased(PR).

Molecular Detection of H. pylori Using Adherent Gastric Mucous to Biopsy Forceps.

Background And Aim: We assessed whether adherent gastric mucous to biopsy forceps instead of biopsy samples was suitable for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection. We confirmed the PCR methods to improve the diagnosis of H.

[Endoscopic sinus surgery in flowing water].

A balloon has been developed that completely fills the choana, preventing water from leaking into the pharynx even when the water is entering into the nasal cavity at a rate of 1000 ml per minute. The balloon enables endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) to be safely performed in "flowing water". This surgical technique is similar to that used in transurethral resections of the prostate because the tip of the endoscope is kept clean, and blood, debris and resected tissues are continuously removed by the water flow.

A pitch glide activates an intermediate response between auditory N1 and mismatch negativity.

Pitch glides of a continuous tone elicit auditory N1-like responses. However, their characteristics have not well been investigated, and it remained unclear whether the response is an auditory true N1 or the mismatch negativity (MMN). We found here that a rapid pitch glide activates almost the same response as a true N1.

Auditory evoked off-response: its source distribution is different from that of on-response.

Offset auditory responses were investigated by electroencephalography mainly in the 1970s, but since then no particular attention has been paid to them. Among the studies using magnetoencephalography (MEG) devices there are, to our knowledge, only three studies of the auditory off-response, and no significant variance has ever been observed between the source locations of on- and off-responses elicited from pure tones. We measured auditory evoked magnetic fields (AEFs) to various frequency pure tone stimulation in 5 healthy subjects with a 122-channel helmet-shaped magnetometer, and compared the distributions of the source locations of auditory N100m-Off (magnetic off-response around 100 ms) with those of N100m-On.

[A case report of bilateral perilymph fistula in an adult, with literature review].

Adult bilateral perilymph fistula (PLF) is rare. We report a case of a 55-year-old man who suffered from sudden bilateral hearing loss after blowing his nose. On the first day, he also had bilateral tinnitus but no vertigo.

[Extrapulmonary lesions of sarcoidosis].

Varieties of extrapulmonary sarcoidosis lesions have been detected in Japan, mostly in the past ten years, including heart, CNS, liver, spleen, bone marrow stomach, colon, esophagus, pancreas, gall bladder, abdominal lymph node, kidney, muscle, bone, joint and others. Most of these were detected mainly at onset with sarcoid changes on chest film. Hepatic lesions have frequently been found by peritoneoscopy and liver biopsy, irrespective of the age of patients or stage of sarcoid change on chest film.