- 著者
- Nobuo Sanjo Satoko Kina Yukiko Shishido-Hara Yurie Nose Satoru Ishibashi Tetsuya Fukuda Taketoshi Maehara Yoshinobu Eishi Hidehiro Mizusawa Takanori Yokota
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.55, no.12, pp.1631-1635, 2016-06-15 (Released:2016-06-15)
- 参考文献数
- 15
- 被引用文献数
- 13 13
A 53-year-old man was admitted for sub-acute progressive dementia and Gerstmann syndrome. MRI demonstrated lesions in the white matter involving the left parietal lobe, accompanied by speckled or faint linear peripheral enhancement. Brain biopsy revealed JC virus infection in oligodendrocytes and balanced infiltration of CD8+ and CD4+ T lymphocytes. We diagnosed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) with controlled inflammation. The finding of CD4/CD8 T cells in the infected PML brain suggested therapeutically valuable immune system involvement, which we decided to preserve by withholding corticosteroids. We treated the patient with risperidone, cytarabine and mefloquine to suppress virus replication, but not with the corticosteroid that is conventionally used in inflammatory PML cases. The patient was discharged three months after admission, and one year later, his score on the Mini-Mental State Examination had recovered to 26/30, from 5/30 on admission.
- 著者
- Kokoro Ozaki Takuya Ohkubo Tetsuo Yamada Kotaro Yoshioka Masahiko Ichijo Takamasa Majima Shunsuke Kudo Takumi Akashi Keiji Honda Eisaku Ito Mayumi Watanabe Masaki Sekine Miwako Hamagaki Yoshinobu Eishi Nobuo Sanjo Satoru Ishibashi Hidehiro Mizusawa Takanori Yokota
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.57, no.23, pp.3451-3458, 2018-12-01 (Released:2018-12-01)
- 参考文献数
- 29
- 被引用文献数
- 1 8
Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus (PERM) is an autoimmune disorder involving the brainstem and spinal cord and is sometimes associated with thymoma. We encountered a 75-year-old woman with typical PERM features, glycine receptor antibody, and thymoma. Her neurologic symptoms improved after thymectomy, but she unexpectedly developed anasarca with massive pleural effusions and hypoalbuminemia and finally succumbed to death. The autopsy showed edema and mononuclear infiltration in the pleura but no neuropathological findings typical of PERM. Effective treatment of PERM can reverse the neuropathological signs of encephalomyelitis. The autoimmune nature of anasarca is possible but not proven.
- 著者
- Yasuhiro YOSHIKAWA Motohiro HORIUCHI Naotaka ISHIGURO Mutsuyo KADOHIRA Satoshi KAI Hidehiro MIZUSAWA Chisato NAGATA Takashi ONODERA Tetsutaro SATA Toshiyuki TSUTSUI Masahito YAMADA Shigeki YAMAMOTO
- 出版者
- 公益社団法人 日本獣医学会
- 雑誌
- Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.74, no.8, pp.959-968, 2012 (Released:2012-09-03)
- 参考文献数
- 13
The Food Safety Commission (FSC) of Japan, established in July 2003, has its own initiative to conduct risk assessments on food stuffs known as “self-tasking assessment”. Within this framework, the FSC decided to conduct a risk assessment of beef and beef offal imported into Japan from countries with no previous BSE reports; thus, a methodology was formed to suit to this purpose. This methodology was partly based on the previous assessments of Japanese domestic beef and beef imported from U.S.A./Canada, but some modifications were made. Other organizations’ assessment methods, such as those used for BSE status assessment in live cattle by the OIE and EFSA’s GBR, were also consulted. In this review, the authors introduce this alternative methodology, which reflects (1) the risk of live cattle in the assessed country including temporal risks of BSE invasion and domestic propagation, with the assessment results verified by surveillance data, and (2) the risk of beef and beef offal consisting of cumulative BSE risk by types of slaughtering and meat production processes implemented and the status of mechanically recovered meat production. Other possible influencing factors such as atypical BSE cases were also reviewed. The key characteristic of the current assessment is a combination of the time-sequential risk level of live cattle and qualitative risk level of meat production at present in an assessed country.