[Treatment of tuberculosis in patients with comorbidities].

Early detection and appropriate treatment are the keys to tuberculosis control. In particular, providing appropriate treatment for tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), chronic hepatic disease, or renal failure necessitating hemodialysis, and taking appropriate measures against adverse reactions to antituberculosis drugs are issues of critical importance. This mini-symposium, four experts explained the current status of "treatment of tuberculosis in patients with comorbidities" and proposed measures to address these problems.

[Nontuberculous pulmonary mycobacteriosis complicated by pleuritis].

Pleuritis is a rare complication associated with nontuberculous mycobacteriosis of the lung and its etiology remains to be clarified. We investigated pleuritis associated with nontuberculous mycobacteriosis of the lung in 304 patients who visited our hospital. Of these, 9 patients (3%) had pleural effusion not attributable to any factor other than pleuritis; these cases were diagnosed as pleuritis.

The lurking potential of tangential forces: A case of an arteriovenous shunt developed by percutaneous coronary intervention for the septal branch.

We describe the case of a 59-year-old male. His first percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using a bare metal stent was performed for a 90% stenosis in the mid portion of the left anterior descending artery (LAD). However, we performed re-PCI because in-stent restenosis developed during a chronic stage.

[Evaluation of patient absorbed dose management system in percutaneous coronary intervention].

The angiography equipment Infinix Celeve of Toshiba Corp. is a system that estimates patient absorbed dose at the skin by using a dose area product meter. This system performs incidence area compensation, which corresponds to the changes of I.