17 results match your criteria: "Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital[Affiliation]"
HIV Med
July 2021
Division of General Internal Medicine, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Tochigi, Japan.
J Infect Chemother
August 2020
Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Department of General Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Tochigi, Japan.
Roseomonas, a genus of pink-pigmented glucose non-fermentative bacteria, has been associated with various primary and hospital-acquired human infections; however, to our knowledge, its nosocomial transmission has never been reported. Clinical and epidemiological investigations were carried out after two cases of R. mucosa bacteremia occurred in our hospital in 2018.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Ren Nutr
November 2020
Department of Medicine, Kidney Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Objective: The appropriate protein intake for patients on hemodialysis complicated with frailty remains highly controversial.
Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study using data from Japanese Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pattern Study. The patients were separated by their baseline of normalized protein catabolic rate (nPCR) into 3 categories: low (nPCR < 1.
BMC Health Serv Res
October 2019
Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Women's Medical University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: No studies using a valid, standardized method to measure post-donation satisfaction levels among living kidney donors (LKDs) have been published.
Methods: Donor satisfaction levels were measured using the Japanese version of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8 (CSQ-8), a validated, self-report questionnaire. To identify factors related to post-donation satisfaction levels, we compared donors' sociodemographic and psychological characteristics and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), using the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36), as well as recipients' clinical characteristics and SF-36 scores between donors with and without low satisfaction.
Jpn J Infect Dis
September 2019
Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Histoplasmosis is occasionally encountered in non-endemic countries owing to more frequent international travel and migration, as well as an increase in the number of vulnerable hosts (e.g., patients with cellular immunodeficiencies).
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October 2018
Department of Anatomy, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Primary membranous nephropathy (MN) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease mainly caused by autoantibodies acting against the podocyte antigen M-type phospholipase A2 receptor 1 (PLA2R). Herein we present the clinical and histologic findings, including PLA2R staining, of early recurrent MN after kidney transplantation that was successfully treated with rituximab. A 60-year-old Japanese man had end-stage renal failure due to steroid-resistant primary MN and underwent ABO-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation.
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June 2018
Department of Urology, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) and cryoglobulinemic vasculitis (CV) rarely coexist. An 83-year-old woman was admitted with rapidly progressive renal failure, gastrointestinal hemorrhage and purpura with myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA positivity and cryoglobulinemia. Despite intensive immunosuppressive treatment, she died of aspergillus pneumonia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Infect Chemother
September 2018
Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae cause the majority of respiratory diphtheria cases. However, nontoxigenic strains of C. diphtheriae can also cause diseases, and have become increasingly common.
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May 2018
Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Plasma cell-rich acute rejection (PCAR) is a rare type of allograft rejection characterized by the presence of mature plasma cells. In general, the prognosis of PCAR is poor, and its clinical and pathological features remain unclear.
Methods: We performed a retrospective observational study and compared allograft survival between kidney transplant recipients who developed PCAR and those who did not develop PCAR.
Intern Med
May 2018
Department of Urology, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Japan.
Tacrolimus is the most commonly used immunosuppressant. Because of its narrow therapeutic range, it is necessary to frequently monitor its concentration. We report the case of a 25-year-old man who underwent kidney transplantation whose tacrolimus concentrations, as measured by an affinity column-mediated immunoassay, were falsely elevated.
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December 2017
Department of Urology, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Objectives: Universal prophylaxis and preemptive therapy are used to prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease post-transplantation. Data regarding which strategy is superior are sparse, especially in high-risk recipients (donor CMV seropositive (D+) and recipient CMV seronegative (R-)).
Methods: This retrospective, single-center cohort study included recipients who underwent kidney transplantation between 2009 and 2015.
Nephrology (Carlton)
November 2018
Nephrology Center, Toranomon Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
Aim: Kidney biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), but it is unknown whether vasculitis can be detected from AAV patients with minor urinary abnormalities.
Methods: Ninety ANCA-positive patients undergoing kidney biopsy were evaluated retrospectively after being divided into two groups, which were group A (minor urinary abnormalities with both proteinuria <0.5 g/day and red blood cells ≤5/high power field) and group B (major urinary abnormalities except group A).
Transplant Proc
June 2017
Department of Urology, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Sarcoidosis is a chronic systemic disease that is characterized by the formation of noncaseating granuloma and whose etiology is unclear. It is unclear whether patients with sarcoidosis are suitable organ donors.
Case: We treated a 56-year-old woman with pulmonary sarcoidosis who donated her kidney.
Acta Otolaryngol
March 2010
Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Tokyo.
Conclusion: We could represent the first quantitative analysis of the mutation rate at the cellular level in human inner ear of a patient with MELAS (mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes) by combining laser capture microdissection (LCM) and quantitative real time PCR.
Objectives: We previously reported combining LCM and PCR to isolate mtDNA from the cells of specific tissues within a human archival celloidin-embedded temporal bone section without known otological history. Using this method, we quantitatively analyzed the rate of mtDNA 3243A > G mutation in the inner ear of a MELAS patient, and examined the correlation of the mutation rate at the cellular level and their histopathological condition.
Otol Neurotol
August 2008
Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Intern Med
April 2008
Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation Okubo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
We present a case of bacteremia caused by group G streptococci (GGS) and vertebral osteomyelitis in a homosexual man with amebic colitis. The organism likely entered the blood via the inflamed intestinal mucosa resulting from amebiasis. Arthritis of both hands, which probably represented poststreptococcal reactive arthritis, was also observed.
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