Hidehiko Yamamoto

A comment on: ‘Absorbed radiation doses in the thyroid as estimated by UNSCEAR and subsequent risk of childhood thyroid cancer following the Great East Japan’

Hidehiko Yamamoto, Keiji Hayashi, Hagen Scherb

We were very interested in the article by Ohira et al. [1]. Whereas Tsuda et al. [2], Yamamoto et al. [3], Kato [4] and Toki et al. [5] found a significant association between the occurrence of thyroid cancer and radiation following the …

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Association between the detection rate of thyroid cancer and the external radiation dose-rate after the nuclear power plant accidents in Fukushima, Japan

Hidehiko Yamamoto, Keiji Hayashi, Hagen Scherb

A thyroid cancer ultrasonography screening for all residents 18 years old or younger living in the Fukushima prefecture started in October 2011 to investigate the possible effect of the radiological contamination after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accidents as of March …

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Screening for hereditary angioedema (HAE) at 13 emergency centers in Osaka, Japan

Tomoya Hirose, Futoshi Kimbara, Masahiro Shinozaki, Yasuaki Mizushima et autres

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) with deficiency of C1 inhibitor (C1-INH) is an autosomal-dominant disease characterized by recurrent episodes of potentially life-threatening angioedema. The objective is to study the incidence of HAE among patients who visit the emergency department.This was a 3-year prospective observational …

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Comparison of Chest Computed Tomography Features in the Acute Phase of Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome on Arrival at the Emergency Department

Kosaku Komiya, Hiroshi Ishii, Junji Murakami, Hidehiko Yamamoto et autres

PURPOSE: Discriminating cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a serious problem in emergency departments, and the ability of chest radiographs to differentiate between these 2 entities is limited. We compared the chest computed tomography (CT) findings in …

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Physicians' attitudes toward the definition of “death from age‐related physical debility” in deceased elderly with aspiration pneumonia

Kosaku Komiya, Hiroshi Ishii, Hisako Kushima, Shintaro Sato et autres

AIM: Deaths from aspiration pneumonia in elderly patients are occasionally considered to be "death from age-related physical debility", because most aspiration pneumonias are a result of aging and lead to death without any definitive therapy. The aim of the present study was …

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Chest Computed Tomographic Findings In Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis

Kosuke Tsuruno, Kazunori Tobino, Kazuhito Takeda, Norikazu Matsuo et autres

Backgrounds: In patient with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN), coexisting pulmonary lesions are considered to be an adverse prognostic factor. However, there has been no report that examined the frequency of coexisting pulmonary lesions and chest CT findings in patients with RPGN in …

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Chest Computed Tomographic Imaging Characteristics Of Female Patients With Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Kazunori Tobino, Takahiro Haga, Masatoshi Kurihara, Katsutoshi Ando et autres

RATIONALE: In female patients, the etiologies of spontaneous pneumothorax are more various than those in male patients, because diseases specific to female, such as lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and catamenial pneumothorax (CP), exist. To our knowledge, there have been no reports concerning the usefulness …

Endoscopic Treatment By Microwave Coagulation Therapy And Stenting For Malignant Airway Obstruction

Yukihiro Sugimoto, Noriyuki Ebi, Norikazu Matsuo, Kousuke Tsuruno et autres

Medical Professionals' Attitudes Toward Tube Feeding for Themselves or Their Families: A Multicenter Survey in Japan

Kosaku Komiya, Hiroshi Ishii, Shinji Teramoto, Takaaki Yasuda et autres

BACKGROUND: Many studies have shown a lack of advantages to tube feeding for elderly with advanced dementia, but tube feeding is still considered standard care in Japan. The aim of this study is to investigate what nutrition method health care professionals want …

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Relationship between CT Findings and the Plasma Levels of Brain Natriuretic Peptide in 29 Patients with Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema

Kosaku Komiya, Hiroshi Ishii, Junji Murakami, Hidehiko Yamamoto et autres

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Plasma C-reactive protein levels are associated with mortality in elderly with acute lung injury

Kosaku Komiya, Hiroshi Ishii, Shinji Teramoto, Osamu Takahashi et autres

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Clarithromycin has limited effects in non-elderly, non-severe patients with seasonal influenza virus A infection

Hiroshi Ishii, Kosaku Komiya, Eiji Yamagata, Kazuhiro Yatera et autres

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