The impact of patients' social backgrounds assessment on nursing care: Qualitative research.

Background: Although nurses are expected to address the social determinants of health (SDH) in clinical settings, the perspectives of front-line nurses on the integration of SDH into their clinical practice remain unclear. Understanding the dynamism of this integration and its outcomes can yield crucial insights into effective nursing care. This study aims to elucidate the integration and adoption of tool-based SDH assessment nursing programs and their impacts on daily nursing care.

Experience of residents learning about social determinants of health and an assessment tool: Mixed-methods research.

Background: Educating healthcare professionals about the social determinants of health is important in improving health outcomes of marginalized patients. Residents' experience of learning about the social determinants of health and a clinical assessment tool remains unclear.

Methods: Residents participated in an online session about the social determinants of health and the assessment tool.

Increased risk of obstetric complications in patients with adenomyosis: A narrative literature review.

Background: Reproductive-age women occasionally face the pathological condition of adenomyosis, which is often concurrent with endometriosis. It is believed that endometriosis and adenomyosis increases the risk of obstetric complications. Although new insights into the mechanism of obstetric complications due to endometriosis are emerging, there is little information on the etiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with adenomyosis.

Hepatectomy guided by indocyanine green fluorescent imaging for visualizing bile leakage (with video).

Using indocyanine green (ICG), a standard reagent used in liver function tests, bile leaks from exfoliated liver sections can be detected with higher sensitivity than naked-eye observation. This presentation will introduce the technique of using ICG to detect bile leaks that cannot be detected by the naked eye.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy after percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis in a patient with a left ventricle assist device: A case report and brief review of the literature (with video).

For acute cholecystitis in patients with left ventricular assist devices, the use of percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage to calm inflammation before planned laparoscopic cholecystectomy may be helpful in safely adjusting anticoagulation and in performing safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy, as demonstrated in this case.

Efficacy of cyclic and extended regimens of ethinylestradiol 0.02 mg -levonorgestrel 0.09 mg for dysmenorrhea: A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial.

Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 28-day Cyclic and 84-day Extended regimens of NPC-16 (ethinylestradiol 0.02 mg plus levonorgestrel 0.09 mg) in patients with dysmenorrhea.

Peroral cholangioscopy-guided forceps biopsy fluoroscopy-guided forceps biopsy for extrahepatic biliary lesions.

Background And Aim: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)-related tissue acquisition, including fluoroscopy-guided forceps biopsy (F-FB), is a common technique in diagnosing indeterminate biliary lesions. Recently, peroral cholangioscopy (POCS) and POCS-guided forceps biopsy (POCS-FB) has also been used for the diagnosis of indeterminate biliary lesions. However, it is uncertain which of those techniques were superior for the diagnosis of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ECC).

Avoidance of bile duct injury during laparoscopic liver cyst fenestration using indocyanine green: A case report.

By administering ICG test immediately before laparoscopic liver cyst fenestration, the biliary tract can be easily identified and intraoperative bile duct damage and postoperative bile fistula formation can be avoided, as demonstrated in this case.

Development and validation of grade-based prediction models for postoperative morbidity in gastric cancer resection using a Japanese web-based nationwide registry.

Aim: Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Surgery is the mainstay treatment for gastric cancer. There are no prediction models that examine the severity of postoperative morbidity.

Extramammary Paget's disease of the glans penis secondary to urethral recurrence of bladder carcinoma after radical cystectomy: A case report.

Introduction: Extramammary Paget's disease of the vulva secondary to urothelial carcinoma is rare. It is important to determine whether extramammary Paget's disease is primary or secondary, because the appropriate treatment strategies differ. We report a case of penile extramammary Paget's disease secondary to urothelial carcinoma recurrence.

Clinical efficacy of novel elastography using acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) for diagnosis of malignant thyroid nodules.

Objective: Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is a recent ultrasound elastography technique; consequently, its efficacy is not fully known. In this study, we compared ARFI imaging with conventional strain elastography (SE) and shear wave velocities (SWVs) to evaluate the utility of ARFI imaging for diagnosing thyroid nodules.

Subjects And Methods: In this study we examined 233 thyroid nodules (183 benign nodules and 50 malignant nodules) isolated from human patients.

Influence of multinerve-sparing, robot-assisted radical prostatectomy on the recovery of erection in Japanese patients.

Purpose: To evaluate in Japanese patients their sexual function after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and to investigate the influence of the multinerve-sparing (NS) grade on their sexual function.

Methods: In total, 225 patients were reviewed with localized prostate cancer who underwent RARP at the authors' institution. They underwent RARP >3 months ago, without pre- and posthormone therapy and salvage radiation.

Usefulness of ultrasound for assessing the primary tumor of hypopharyngeal carcinoma.

Objectives: To clarify the usefulness of ultrasonography for detecting hypopharyngeal cancer.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: The study included 95 patients who underwent pre-treatment ultrasonography.

Development and Evaluation of a Blood Glucose Management System for Reducing the Delay in Measurement.

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the blood glucose management (BGM) system, which supports the scheduling of blood glucose measurements for medical staff. This system enables medical staff to continually confirm the instructions of the physicians by measuring blood glucose levels using a smart device (iPod). This paper describes the difference in the delay of the measurement between the BGM system and the non-BGM system.

Ambroxol chaperone therapy for neuronopathic Gaucher disease: A pilot study.

Objective: Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal storage disease characterized by a deficiency of glucocerebrosidase. Although enzyme-replacement and substrate-reduction therapies are available, their efficacies in treating the neurological manifestations of GD are negligible. Pharmacological chaperone therapy is hypothesized to offer a new strategy for treating the neurological manifestations of this disease.

Abnormal pupillary light reflex with chromatic pupillometry in Gaucher disease.

The hallmark of neuronopathic Gaucher disease (GD) is oculomotor abnormalities, but ophthalmological assessment is difficult in uncooperative patients. Chromatic pupillometry is a quantitative method to assess the pupillary light reflex (PLR) with minimal patient cooperation. Thus, we investigated whether chromatic pupillometry could be useful for neurological evaluations in GD.