Nishitani, Naoko Kawasaki, Yurika Sakakibara, Hisataka
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Nagoya journal of medical science
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between insomnia and future risk of developing depression. This was a 6-year cohort survey from 2011 to 2017. A questionnaire was conducted with male workers in a manufacturing industry. The questions included the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) for evaluating d...
Kawai, Ryosuke Tsukahara, Takashi Kawashima, Itaru Yamada, Harumoto
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Nagoya journal of medical science
A lot of good outcomes have been reported after opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy (OWHTO) and closing-wedge high tibial osteotomy (CWHTO).The purpose of this study was to examine the rotational alignment after OWHTO and CWHTO performed by the same surgeon in one hospital. The sample included 30 knees from 24 patients. In all cases, the same ortho...
Kajikawa, Shigehisa Imai, Naoyuki Okachi, Shotaro Yatsuya, Hiroshi Souma, Tomohide Watanabe, Toshikazu Goto, Yasuhiro Minezawa, Tomoyuki Hashimoto, Naozumi Imaizumi, Kazuyoshi
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Although endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial biopsy (TBB) with a guide sheath (EBUS-GS) is widely used for diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary lesions, the diagnostic contribution of cytology (bronchial brushing, bronchial washing and biopsy forceps rinse) has not been established. To determine the diagnostic contribution of cytological ex...
Ito, Kenyu Ando, Kei Kobayashi, Kazuyoshi Tsushima, Mikito Machino, Masaaki Ota, Kyotaro Morozumi, Masayoshi Tanaka, Satoshi Ishiguro, Naoki Imagama, Shiro
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A 58-year-old woman presented with acute pain in her back and her left leg. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an intradural schwannoma with an intratumoral hemorrhage between the lower L4 vertebra and L5/S1 disk level. A follow-up MRI after one month revealed that the tumor had regressed from the middle of L5 to the L5/S1 disk level. The tu...
Hirakawa, Yoshihisa Chiang, Chifa Yasuda, Kazuki Iwaki, Yoshinobu Andoh, Hideaki Aoyama, Atsuko
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Nagoya journal of medical science
Older people living alone has been reported to be socially isolated and suffering from loneliness. Although spiritual care is a core element of end-of-life care for older people, a clear-cut definition of spirituality has not been established yet. It remains unclear how spirituality is perceived by heath care professionals and how spiritual care is...
Muramatsu, Tomoaki Funahashi, Yasuhito Yamamoto, Akiyuki Sassa, Naoto Matsukawa, Yoshihisa Gotoh, Momokazu
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Currently, the early introduction of new antiandrogens is popular for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, adverse events can be severe and their costs are high. Here, we present a patient with CRPC in whom flutamide controlled disease progression for 10 years. This case report shows that conventional alternative antiandrogens are ...
Hattori, Kyosuke Hirano, Yuji Kanayama, Yasuhide Takahashi, Nobunori Ishiguro, Naoki Kojima, Toshihisa
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We investigated 2-year outcomes of denosumab treatment for osteoporosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and predictors of good outcomes. Study participants were 74 females treated with denosumab for 24 months. After investigating baseline demographics and overall time course for each patient, we divided all cases into two groups accordin...
Tanaka, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Tadaaki Ogawa, Toyoaki Yabushita, Momoko
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Nagoya journal of medical science
The purpose of this study was to chronicle the experiences of teenage girls who stay downtown late at night and are involved in sexual exploitation, and to clarify characteristics of their social circumstances and social determinants of health: socioeconomic status and educational opportunities. Between November 2009 and June 2013, we spoke with 89...
Yamamoto, Toshikuni Saito, Shunei Matsuura, Akio Miyahara, Ken Takemura, Haruki Otsuka, Ryohei
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To reduce the risk of adverse events, presternotomy extracorporeal circulation (ECC) is routinely performed at our institution for patients who require resternotomy. We report our 10-year experience of performing presternotomy ECC for cardiac reoperation and the clinical results. Fifty-seven consecutive cardiac reoperations involving resternotomy w...
Matsuo, Yuichiro Yamada, Toru Hiraoka, Eiji
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Nagoya journal of medical science
Cricoid cartilage fracture is generally caused by significant neck trauma and causes continuous dyspnea, neck pain, or hoarseness developing immediately after the traumatic episode. A 69-year-old woman without any history of trauma was admitted to our hospital with intermittent dyspnea. Six months before admission she had started to complain of dys...