Early lateral migration of head after bipolar hemiarthoplasty in a cerebral palsy patient.

Migration of the outer head after bipolar hemiarthroplasty within several years after surgery is not a rare complication. We present a patient with cerebral palsy who showed lateral migration of the outer head seven months after bipolar hemiarthroplasty for femoral neck fracture. The patient had no acetabular pathology prior to the fracture, and lacked ambulatory ability in a community setting.

Randomized phase II trial of weekly paclitaxel combined with carboplatin versus standard paclitaxel combined with carboplatin for elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.

Background: The optimal platinum doublet regimen in elderly patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is still uncertain. We conducted a randomized phase II study to compare the efficacy and safety of weekly paclitaxel combined with carboplatin with those of the standard schedule.

Patients And Methods: Elderly patients (age > or =70 years) with advanced NSCLC were randomly assigned to either the weekly arm {70 mg/m(2) paclitaxel on days 1, 8, and 15 and carboplatin [area under the curve (AUC) = 6] on day 1} or the standard arm [200 mg/m(2) paclitaxel and carboplatin (AUC = 6) on day 1].

[Cerebral hemodynamic changes in eclampsia--case report].

Eclampsia is a rare condition that is peculiar to pregnant and puerperal women, and its pathophysiology still remains unclear. We conducted a 90-day radiological follow-up of a 29-year-old primigravida who developed eclampsia at 41 weeks of gestation. On admission, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed vasogenic edema predominantly in the parietal and occipital lobes; however with in 2 weeks, these lesions had disappeared.

Incidence and clinical features of cytomegalovirus infection diagnosed by cytomegalovirus pp65 antigenemia assay during high dose corticosteroid therapy for collagen vascular diseases.

Objective: To investigate the incidence and clinical features in patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV)-positive antigenemia during high dose corticosteroid therapy for collagen vascular diseases, and risk factors associated with it.

Patients And Methods: We examined retrospectively 35 consecutive patients for the presence of CMV-positive pp65 antigenemia. The patients were admitted to Saka General Hospital from 2000 to 2003, and were administered more than 0.

[Complete disappearance of metastatic lung tumors and mediastinal lymphnode in a case of hepatocellular carcinoma treated by low-dose 5-fluorouracil/cisplatin therapy].

We report a case of complete disappearance of multiple lung metastases and mediastinal lymphnode metastasis by intravenous administration of 5-fluorouracil/cisplatin (FP) after operation for primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A 54-year-old male was diagnosed with HCC associated with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. He also had a single lung metastasis at the time of diagnosis.

Sweet's syndrome associated with propylthiouracil-induced antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody.

Abstract A 44-year-old woman had tender erythematous nodules in both the upper and lower extremities, headache, and fever during the course of propylthiouracil therapy for Graves' disease. Serologic tests showed high titers of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) against myeloperoxidase (MPO). A skin biopsy showed neutrophilic dermatitis consistent with Sweet's syndrome.

Effect of glucose concentration on foam cell formation in THP-1 cells.

We investigated whether a high glucose condition could affect cholesterol ester (CE) synthesis and accumulation of cholesterol in arterial wall cells by using the human monocytic cell line THP-1. After 24-hour PMA treatment, cells were grown in control (200 mg/dl of glucose) or high glucose concentration (400, 600, 800, or 1,600 mg/dl) medium for 6 days. CE synthesis was then investigated in cells incubated with 50 microg/ml of native, glycated, acetylated, or oxidized LDL.

[Two cases of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation with interesting electrocardiographic findings].

We encountered two cases of ventricular fibrillation (VF) without overt heart disease. The first case we report is that of a 47-year-old man, and the second case is a 39-year-old man. VF occurred in the night unrelated to myocardial ischemia or myocarditis.

Prospective study on maternal, intrauterine, and perinatal infections with cytomegalovirus in Japan during 1976-1990.

Since 1976, sera obtained serially from 10,218 pregnant women during the first, second, and third trimesters of gestation and cord sera were tested for CMV complement-fixing (CF) and immunofluorescent (IF) antibodies. CMV IgG-IF antibody was positive in 9,735/10,218 (95%) in the first trimester, and a significant rise of CF antibodies during pregnancy was found in 70/9,206 (0.76%) of the seropositive group and in 5/438 (1.